NEW 'GANG' EMERGES IN KADUNA.

A new gang named 'the sweepers' has emerged in the northern state
of Kaduna and in the past month has been terrorising residents of
major towns in the state with knives,cutlasses and clubs. In an
interview with PREMIUM TIMES, the spokes person of the Police Command
in the state, stated that 'Yan Shara' which means 'the sweepers' in
hausa language, has been terrorising residents with very deadly
weapons like knives.
But the command spokesman Mr. Abubakar Zubair in his statement
said that the police had moved in to suppress the activities of the
group, and that control had returned to places were the group's
activities were rampant before. He said that the police had restored
calm to Tudun Wada and Rigasa areas.
The governor of the state Nasir El-Ruffai has assured the
citizens of the state that he would work to make sure that the
activities of the group were not just curbed but totally eradicated