I advised El-Rufai against releasing casualty figure — police commissioner

Kaduna police commissioner Ahmad Abdulrahman said he advised Nasir El-Rufai against quoting any particular figure as the number of casualties recorded in the ethnic crisis between the Adara and Fulani in Kajuru local government area of the state. Abdulrahman refused to confirm the figure quoted by the governor, saying his men were still investigating the incident. The police chief also said both the Fulani and the Adara natives were killed in the clash. But El-Rufai had claimed that all the 130 people who were killed and buried in shallow graves were mainly Fulani. The commissioner said the police could only arrest the Adara leaders in connection with the crisis because the people claimed that they were attacked by unknown gunmen.