THISDAYonline

Kaduna State government has introduced, joint patrol of armed soldiers and police in Kaduna metropolis, following Monday's riots at Tudun Wada.

Peace has gradually returned to the town after the riots, triggered off by the mass burial of unidentified corpses at the Tundun Wada cemetery, by the police.

At the trouble spots in the Tundun Wada suburb, residents went about their businesses though under the watchful eyes of security agents.

Elsewhere in the town, security personnel took over strategic positions at most of the city's roundabouts, apart from others who kept a sustained patrol of the streets.

Commercial activities equally resumed at some areas that were deserted at the height of the distrurbances, including the central market, Lagos Street, Ibrahim Taiwo Street, Ahmadu Bello Way and environs.

State Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, in a radio and television broadcast had announced the constitution of a panel to probe the riots.

But faulting membership of the panel, among other issues, the Kaduna Muslim Youth Association in a press statement yesterday announced its rejection of the panel, adding that Muslims would not accept its report and recommendations.

According to the statement signed by the group's Chairman, Major Abubakar Umat Umar (rtd), "we wish to inform the executive governor that the committee he set up is unacceptable and we call for a non-partisan committee, not connected to government patronage.

"That in the absence of justice and fair play, we shall henceforth call on Muslims everywhere to resist any kind of intimidation.

"That if government does not carry out proper investigation and prosecution of the involved police personnel, we shall have no other option but to protect our Muslim brothers".