Police deny sealing ACF headquarters in Kaduna

The Kaduna State Police Command has denied sealing disconnected the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) headquarters.
The bid insisted that its officers were deployed to the premises to forestall a imaginable breakdown of instrumentality and bid betwixt 2 rival factions wrong the organisation.

The clarification came amid rising hostility implicit reports that the ACF office was sealed up of a scheduled National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, a improvement that has deepened concerns implicit an interior enactment quality wrong the forum.

Reacting, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Mansur Hassan, explained that the bid acted connected quality and written notifications received from 2 antithetic groups wrong the ACF, each indicating plans to clasp meetings astatine the aforesaid venue and astatine the aforesaid time.

He explained, “The concern posed a superior hazard of confrontation, which the constabulary could not let to escalate into violence.”

He stated that members of factions of ACF wanted to clasp a gathering astatine the aforesaid time, the aforesaid venue, saying that arsenic a instrumentality enforcement agency, the constabulary cannot let specified a clash arsenic erstwhile determination is simply a clash, determination indispensable beryllium a breakdown of instrumentality and order.

DSP Hassan added that the deployment was indispensable to prolong the prevailing bid successful Kaduna State.

He added, “So arsenic Kaduna State is enjoying comparative peace, we cannot let specified thin...