Residents did not want members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) to hold their Ghadeer, a religious meeting, in the area.
A clash was reported on Monday as residents of Dorayi Babba area of Kano stopped members of thePREMIUM TIMES gathered that members of the Islamic sect were trying to hold the meeting on a plot of land belonging to one of them in the area.
“Some of the elders felt unsafe with the Shiites gathering in the area. But the man said he would only sell the land at N50,000,000 while they said they could only give him N12,000,000,” a resident of the area, Bilyaminu Abubakar, told Premium Times. Another source, Aminu Miko, said: “A car belonging to one Saleh Haruna was burnt to ashes by some of the residents.”He also said some of the sect’s followers were wounded during the disturbance.
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