Nigeria police has revealed the cause of Hausa, Igbo crisis in Jos yesterday
- To quench the crisis, The Plateau state Governor Simon Lalong had on Thursday, September 14 imposed curfew in Jos over the crisis
- The police Command has also warned the citizens against making inflammatory statements capable of causing riot.
According to an online news sources, who has it that the state command public relations officer, ASP Terna Tyopev spoked on the cause of the crisis during an interview with pressmen on 15, Friday 2017.
However, NGNAIJA.com learnt from the interview that ASP Terna was reacting to the recent attack which occurred between the two major ethnic group in Nigeria, Igbo's and Hausa's on 14 Thursday 2017 leading to the death of two people.
It was reported that there was palpable tension in the city of Jos Thursday, September 14 evening after the Hausa youth received an information on the present situations in the south East, which lraf to the Hausa attacking the Igbo's.
Report has in that Areas affected by the situation included Akpata, Teminus, Gada-Biyu and Yan-Trailer.
According to Tyopev said the incident was caused by “the action and comments made by those who are so bent on causing violence,” He maintained that there was no crisis in the state, but minor confusion caused by “enemies of peace”.
“What happened yesterday in some parts of Jos city was not crisis but skirmishes arising from inciting comments from some members of the public.
“Thank God we were able to deploy our officers and men to the affected areas, and normalcy has been restored.
“However, we must warn citizens of the state against inflammatory statements; people must stop making comments that can be inciting,” he said.
Tyopev said the dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed by the state government was still in force and urged the people to obey it.
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