Kano govt suspends durbar processions, horse-riding activities over security concerns

The Kano State Government has suspended each Durbar processions and horse-riding activities wrong the Kano metropolis until further notice.

The directive followed an exigency gathering of the State Security Council held astatine the Government House, Kano, wherever members reviewed the information concern surrounding the planned activities.

In a connection issued on Sunday by the Director-General, Media and Publicity, Government House, Kano, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, the authorities said the determination was taken arsenic a precautionary measurement to forestall imaginable clashes, support lives and property, and support nationalist order.

The authorities said information assessments indicated important mobilisation of supporters successful transportation with the planned activities, raising concerns astir imaginable confrontation and a breakdown of instrumentality and order.

The connection said the State Security Council truthful directed that the planned Durbar processions and horse-riding activities beryllium suspended successful the metropolis.

“The State Security Council resolved to instrumentality precautionary measures to forestall immoderate imaginable confrontation, sphere nationalist ord...