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Bauchi-For the fifth time, hundreds of Sayawa women from Bogoro and Tafawa Balewa areas of Bauchi took to the street to protest the continued detention of their monarch, the Gung Zaar-Select, Air Commodore Ishaku Komo (retd.) by the police in the state.
Recall that the Bauchi State Police arrested Komo and six others for their alleged involvement in the recent communal crisis that erupted in Sang Village in Bogoro LGA, during the coronation of a Hamlet Head.A 70-year old man was killed in the incident, many sustained various degrees of injuries while 74 houses and shops and three motorcycles were completely burnt down.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Superintendent of Police, Ahmed Wakil, in a recent statement, ordered the arrest and detention of the monarch and six persons over the incident.
The protesters, who mostly dressed in black attires, held leaves and branches of trees while others held placards and banners with various inscriptions demanding the release of their monarch.They chanted several songs and walked for several hours going round Tafawa Balewa town and forcing shop and business owners to close down.
One of the leaders of the protesters, Rahatu Luka, said: they are protesting because of what was happening regarding the arrest of their monarch who they claimed was innocent of all the allegations levelled against him.
“What angered women and made them come out in these…
