Oil Strike Bloody in Kaduna

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Assalamu alaikum,
Nigerian 'strike' deaths probed

Nigeria's police have a reputation for being heavy-handed
The bodies of 12 people killed by police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna have been exhumed to find out how they died.
Troops have been deployed in the city to prevent unrest after local residents protested, claiming that the dead were arrested during last week's strikes.

The police deny this, saying the men were armed robbers who tried to escape.

On the first day of last week's general strike a teenage protester was shot dead by police in Kaduna.

Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi has appealed for calm in the city.

He said the investigation would determine the identity of the bodies and how they were killed.

The area around the cemetery was sealed off by police after youths tried to exhume the bodies.

Correspondents say there are often fears of violent protests in Kaduna, where some 200 people were killed in clashes between Muslims and Christians in 2002.

Nigeria's police have a reputation for being heavy-handed with both demonstrators and criminals.

A campaign to fight armed robbery, dubbed Operation Fire-for-Fire left many dead in the largest city, Lagos in 2002.

Some 3,000 suspects were shot dead last year, reports AFP news agency.

Last week's four-day strike was called by the Nigerian trade unions, who demanded a reversal in a 25% rise in fuel prices.

The unions say they will go on strike again in two weeks if their demands are not met.

Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer but two-thirds of the population lives in poverty.

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Salam
Allah sarki mutan Kaduna. Dama kasan abune in an hada da yan banga- police, to sai kaga ta'asa.

My mom's uncle was killed in similar circustances, by the police, in 2000 when he went out to, as an elder, try calming the nerves of restive youth.
The Cops shot him in the back claiming he was inciting violence!

Amma dai Allah shi dada sawwakewa saboda duk lokacin da aka kara yin wani karin kudin mai, the same thing will happen. And by the way OBJ thinks, karin kudin mai is something that will happen in the near future. Perhaps before the year runs out.

Allah jikan musulmi gaba daya............ amin.