There is a noticeable panic among residents of the Hausa Community in
Bayelsa State following the mass exodus of northern indigenes from the
state.
The leader of the Hausa Community in Bayelsa State, Alhaji
Dahiru Yau Katsina, while speaking with newsmen in Yenagoa, said though
they have appealed for calm among Hausa indigenes, the mass exodus is
worrisome.
Alhaji Dahiru Yau Katsine, said the Hausa Community in
the State had met with authorities of the Security agencies and have
been assured of adequate security of lives and property during and after
the elections. He said they were also cautioned against traveling which
might result in accidents and loss of their properties.”
He
wondered why people could still embark on these mass exit when they have
been living with their host communities in harmony and peace, stressing
that he called the managers of most of the Northern states
transport
companies over the development, but they said they were performing their
duties of transportation.
Alhaji Yau who has been in Bayelsa
State before its creation, averred that the Hausa community has resolved
to mobilise to vote massively for the candidates of their choice devoid
of ethnic or tribal sentiments in the forthcoming election, saying that
whether Moslem or Christian what Nigerians want are leaders who would
address the problems of the masses such as unemployment, insecurity and
infrastructures so that Nigerians can live happily in any part of the
country they chose to settle to do their businesses.
He
disclosed, while conducting journalists round Tombia market where
majority of the Hausa traders do their businesses, that due to the
insurgency in some parts of the north many Hausas had fled to Bayelsa
State to take refuse and eke out a living. He added that their leaving
may be because of the need to go home and vote for the candidates of
their choice and not for fear of any violence during the elections."
Culled from Leadership Newspapers
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