Families Of 23 Slain Robbery Victims Get N13.5m

SUCCOUR came the way of families and relatives of 23 persons killed last Monday in some villages of Maru local council of Zamfara State when the State Government released to them, and seven others receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre Gusau, the sum of N13.5m.Chairman of the distribution committee, Alhaji Lawali Aliyu Dangulbi, told reporters yesterday in Gusau, the state capital, that each family of a deceased would receive N500,000,00 cash, five bags of rice, five bags of guinea corn and five bags of millet. Those who are receiving treatment would get N250,000,00, each, five bags of rice, three bags of guinea corn and two bags of millet.Dangulbi, who is also the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) candidate for Maru local council in the June 23, 2012 state councils election, disclosed the resolve of the state governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, to settle the medical bills of the hospitalised.He said one of the victims, a woman, was referred to the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, for treatment while the remaining six victims are responding to treatment at the Federal Medical Centre.Dangulbi identified lack of modern communication system and good roads as factors that aid insecurity in the area, explaining that network service provider, MTN, has expressed wiliness to install facilities in the area and in other neighboring villages.
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