Bauchi Community Continues Protest, Shuts Down Tafawa Balewa Town Over Detention Of Traditional Ruler, Gung Zaar KomoSaharaReporters had reported on Monday that women and concerned residents of Za’ar had also protested against the incarceration of their paramount ruler, Gung Zaar, Air Commodore Ishaku Komo in prison custody.
Komo, a retired Air Commodore SaharaReporters reported was invited penultimate Wednesday at the Bauchi State Police Headquarters for questioning over a communal clash in Sang village in his chiefdom which emanated from the coronation of a Hamlet Head of Sang. It alleged that it was because the traditional ruler selected Ishaya that"the irate youth from different factions protested against the coronation of the new Sayawa Hamlet chief.
However, following his unjustifiable detention in prison custody, hundreds of residents of the community comprising –men, women and youths stormed Tafawa Balewa Town calling for his unconditional release, while describing his detention as politically motivated.
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