Kaduna community begs terrorists s to allow election hold
The people of Birnin-Gwari Local government area of Kaduna State disclosed that they have started reaching out to various terrorists groups ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The aforementioned community has begged terrorist groups operating in the community to allow elections hold.
The Chairman of the Birnin-Gwari Emirate Progressive Union, Ishaq Kasai, in a statement on Saturday, said the development became necessary in view of the prevailing security challenges where about 100 communities were sacked while no fewer than 50,000 were internally displaced by terrorists in the LG.
For the people of Birnin-Gwari, it is only reaching an agreement with terrorists that would make help them exercise their franchise this coming election.
Also, the second issue is on facilitating movements of the election officials and materials on the election day to various units in the local government, especially to areas where security problems are high, such as the Eastern and Western parts of the local government.
The statement reported that “There are 11 political wards in Birnin-Gwari and 10 of these wards are facing security challenges that if measures are not proactively taken will hinder the election processes.”
It is noted that this same approach was adopted successfully during the Census Enumeration Area Demarcation that took place recently where, with the permission of the bandits, all the areas were visited by the Census functionaries and demarcated.
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