The Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, who is also a newly elected Senator, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has donated N 4,250,000 to the families of the seventeen persons killed by bandits in Kalhu, Rakkoni and Dalijan communities, Rabah Local Government of Sokoto State.
This is contained in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Bashir Rabe Mani and issued to newsmen in Sokoto.
The statement said that, Senator Wamakko handed over the money on Wednesday, at the Palace of the District Head of Gandi, Alhaji Maccido Yarin Gandi, when he paid a condolence visit to the people of the area.
The Senator expressed deep concern with the dastardly act by the bandits while giving each of the families of the seventeen deceased persons N 250,000.
He further decried the reoccurrence of the nefarious killings of innocent persons in the area.
Senator Wamakko urged the people to provide credible intelligence information, to enable President Muhammadu Buhari and the various security agencies to take the needed measures to curb the menace.
” We should intensify fervent prayers to seek urgent divine solutions to the recurring dastardly killings.
” Nothing is beyond the Almighty Allah to solve and we around never waiver in offering prayers sustainably,” he averred.
He further clarifies that the gesture was not in any way a compensation, but his widow’s mite to alleviate the suffering of the families of the deceased persons.
Senator Wamakko also set up a five-man committee headed by the Member of the House of Representatives -elect, Wurno and Rabah Federal Constituency, Architect Almustapha Ibrahim Rabah, to judiciously disburse the money to the benefiting families.
Special prayers led by Sheikh Bashir Gidan Kanawa were offered for the repose of the souls of the deceased persons, as well as grant the families to bear the irreparable loss.
The statement said that, those on the entourage of Senator Wamakko include the Gubernatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress ( APC ), Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Tanzania, Alhaji Sahabi Isa Gada , the Chairman of the State APC Gubernatorial Campaign Council, Alhaji Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi and the State APC Chairman , Alhaji Isa Sadiq Achida, among others .
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