Kano: Police set up panel to investigate Durbar-related violence

The Commissioner of Police, Kano State Command, CP Ibrahim Adamu Bakori, has inaugurated an eight-member Special Investigation Panel to probe the unit that erupted during the procession of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II aft the Eid prayers connected Sunday, March 30, 2025.

DAILY POST recalls that the convulsive incidental led to the decease of 1 Surajo Rabiu, a vigilante subordinate from Sabon Titi Jaba Quarters, portion Aminu Suleman from Kofar Mata Quarters sustained injuries and is presently receiving attraction astatine the Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital, Kano.

The Kano Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, successful a connection said the sheet is tasked with identifying some the contiguous and distant causes of the violence, arsenic good arsenic investigating immoderate defiance of the Command’s earlier prohibition connected Durbar and horse-riding activities passim the Sallah celebrations owed to information concerns successful the state.

The Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Adamu Bakori said the information of Kano State remains the Command’s apical priority, adding, “We volition guarantee that anyone recovered liable for this unfortunate incidental is brought to justice.”

The connection further disclosed that the constabulary had already arrested 2 suspects successful transportation with the incident: 20-year-old Usman Sagiru of Sharifai Quarters and 35-year-old Nasir Idris of Kofar Mazugal Quarters.

It added thar the Command has extended an invitation to the Shamakin Kano, Alhaji Wada Isyaku, for questioning regarding alleged defiance of the Durbar ban.