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Nigeria: Mu'azu, Goje Feud Records First Casualty


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This Day (Lagos)

31 March 2008
Posted to the web 31 March 2008

Segun Awofadeji
Gombe

The frosty relationship between former Gombe State PDP youth leader, Alhaji Habu Hassan Mu'azu and Governor Muhammed Danjuma Goje has assumed another dimension, with the popular Jewel Suites Hotel (leased to Habu Mu'azu), sealed off.

This action has rendered 60 staff of the hotel jobless, as the hotel is under the watch of armed mobile Policemen. Also about two weeks ago, younger brother of the governor's former Aide, Hamza Mu'azu, was attacked and wounded by political thugs popularly referred to as yan kalare, at the premises of the Hotel. State Police Command PRO, Mohammed Baba Yola, however said, the closure was for security reasons, arising from the violent attack on Hamza Mu'azu (Habu Mu'azu's younger brother), several days after the incident occurred. ASP). Answering reporters questions on the development, manager of the Hotel, Danjuma Tata, said they were already at work last Thursday, when uniformed security operatives besieged the and seal it off .

He said efforts to get any information from the security operatives who forcefully drove out the workers yielded no result, except that they were acting on orders was from above.

According to Danjuma, who said he was around when personnel from the State Ministry of Commerce were taking inventory, attended to pressmen outside the hotel gates at about 1:00p.m on Friday, because Mobile Policemen on guard disallowed reporters access into the premises.When contacted, the state Deputy Governor, Dr John Lazarus Yoriyo, who doubles as the state commissioner for commerce, represented by his Press Secretary, Mr Wilson Yakubu, claiming ignorance of the situation.



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