How my 15 dogs were burnt alive during Gwarinpa crisis — Abuja hunter

A hunter based in Gwarinpa community where a crisis erupted last weekend, Abba Mai-Kare, has narrated how  he lost 15 dogs to the rampaging youths.

City & Crime had reported that the crisis, which began on Saturday, was sequel to a crackdown against some drug peddlers, which snowballed into a tribal conflict, leading to loss of lives and destruction of properties.

At least 11 tricycles and some kiosks were earlier touched and in retaliation, vehicles parked around some shops were smashed following allegations against their owners of siding with their landlords, the natives.

Three people were reportedly killed during the incident, which lasted for three days.

The remains of a man, Isiaka Ibrahim, who was said to have been attacked while on his way to a kiosk, where he was selling tea, had been conveyed to his home state of Kano, sources in the community said. 

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Speaking with City & Crime at the community on Tuesday, the hunter said the youths killed his dogs, numbering 15 by burning some of them alive.

Abba, who said he also used the dogs for his work as a securityman within the community, accused his attackers of tutoring him with fire and hitting him with stones, having discovered that “no steel could penetrate” him.

In the meantime, normalcy has returned to the area as people were going about their normal businesses when our reporter visited on Tuesday evening.

 The district head of Gwarinpa, Malam Umar Bayero, told City & Crime that the conflict had nothing to do with ethnicity.

The community leader said the conflict was purely a crackdown on drug peddlers, irrespective of their tribe or religion.

He accused them of running their activities with impunity.

 “They escaped the authority’s arrest during an operation on Saturday, only to descend on a native who they found making a phone call, and accused him of reporting them to the security men,’’ the chief said.