…Says government fine-tuning strategies to forestall future occurrence
Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal has confirmed that 23 people and 40 lost their lives in the bandits attack on a 42-seater bus, at Gidan Bawa village of Isa local government area, while traveling to Kaduna on Monday.
Security chiefs including those of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Air Force, the Nigerian Police, Department of State Security and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps as well as the Chairmen of Isa and Sabon Birni local government areas, briefed Tambuwal on the incident at the Government House, Sokoto, on Wednesday.
He pledged to work with the security agencies on modalities to checkmate future occurrences.
“Strategies are on to make sure that this will not happen again,” the state Commissioner of Police, Kamaldeen Okunola, who briefed journalists after a closed session with the governor said.
He explained that 23 passengers in the bus died of burns while six sustained minor injuries and are receiving treatment at a hospital.
He further said that three of the victims whose injuries were not so serious were promptly treated and discharged.
Okunola aded that security agencies had mobilized to the spot of the attack and immediately mounted an ongoing patrol on the 30 kilometers stretch of the road between Gidan Bawa in Sokoto state and Shinkafi town in Zamfara state.
Meanwhile, Sokoto state government has condoled the people of the area on the tragic loss.
