The Kano Road Traffic Agency, KAROTA has said that its men have been attacked by fake soldiers while on duty last week.
Recall that the Managing Director of KAROTA, Baffa Babba Dan’agundi, recently raises the alarm that the agency received an intelligence report that some gunmen had perfected plans to attack its personnel, a situation that forced them to desert the Kano roads.
Addressing newsmen in Kano on Wednesday, Dan’agundi said ten fake soldiers were arrested when they allegedly attacked the KAROTA men at their duty post along the Sharada area in the Kano metropolis.
He added that all the suspects had been arrested and are currently cooling their feet at the Police headquarters, adding that preliminary investigation had revealed that only two out of the presumed soldiers that attack the personnel were real.
The MD lamented that his men are frequently suffering attacks by unknown persons, revealing that over 40 of the KAROTA personnel had been critically injured.
“Some are laying at home. Some are at the hospital. Some have recovered and even returned to work. Some even died. My men after frequent attacks. I just don’t want to be publicizing it because it would become something else.
” You see, last time I said that we were informed of a planned attack by gunmen on us, now see how we arrested fake soldiers who attacked our personnel.
” Let me tell you that within one year, over hundred of my men had been attacked and sustained various degrees of injuries and even death.
“I believe my personnel have their own problems, but the attacks on us is too much,” he lamented.
Dan’agundi however stated that the agency is set to commence enforcement of evacuation of illegal traders from the streets of Kano on Thursday.
He explained that the traders were given six-month notice but refused to vacate their places, adding that the ultimatum had elapsed and the agency would commence enforcement.
He noted that the aim of banning illegal trade on the roadsides is to decongest the roads and allow free flow of traffic, which according to him, would reduce accidents.
