Emirate power tussle: Police uncovers plot by hoodlums to raze Kano Assembly

Our reporter

The commissioner of police, Kano state command, CP Usaini Gumel, together with other security agencies, uncovered plots by hoodlums to raze the state House of Assembly.

The Nations News Nigeria reports that the alleged plots to raze the state House of Assembly was as a result of the recent Kano state Emirate power struggle.

CP. Gumel who addressed journalists on Sunday night in Kano, together with leaders of security agencies; DSS and NSCDC, revealed that they had discovered plans to carry out an assault on the Kano State House of Assembly and various significant sites in the state.

According to him: “We have uncovered credible intelligence about some group of people who are considered as enemies of the state and miscreants who are trying to unleash terror in the state by embarking on targeted attacks at locations, particularly the House of Assembly and some prominent locations within the state capital.

“This intelligence has been verified by so many sources.

“We have perfected plans to embark on serious patrols as well as detections particularly areas where we were informed that the miscreants are hiding. No hiding place for them.

“Whoever, under whatever guise is found to be planning to disrupt the peace being enjoyed in the State or feel that he/she can jeopardize the existing security settings in the State will be arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law.

“We are going to embark on a house-to-house search for anybody who they are above the law,” he stressed.