Kaduna State - Nigeria Troops Patrol City After Death Of Governor - Afp

(AFP)

KADUNA, Nigeria Nigerian troops had been out and about about the streets from the volatile northern town associated with Kaduna on Sunday to stop any kind of outbreak of violence adhering to this passing away belonging to the state governor from a helicopter crash.

Kaduna state governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, a former national protection expert Owoye Azazi and some others were murdered whenever a chopper powered by this dark blue resolved to go along while in the southern area belonging to the region on Saturday on tactic to this oil hub involving Port Harcourt.

The internet marketer spokesman in Kaduna, Colonel Sani Usman, established that deployment of soldiers on the streets from the religiously divided condition capital, who has noticed a spate associated with clashes concerning Christian as well as Muslim residents of which possess eventually left standing of folks inactive this year.

"Security is definitely portion belonging to the government program progression for you to safe and sound lives and also home and to make certain that folks are in a position to carryout their appropriate things to do without having fear," Usman informed AFP.

Kaduna state in addition has also been among your trickiest make simply by radical Islamist collection Boko Haram, which will offers frequently employed suicide bombers to be able to attack places of worship near this state capital.

Troops and also armoured employee companies were patrolling Kaduna city, while major motorways were closed in order to site visitors by simply troops manning checkpoints as well as roadblocks, your neighborhood journalist said, plus the commonly bustling roads ended up deserted.

Yakowa's deputy Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, a Muslim, is likely for being sworn in on Sunday as being the brand new Kaduna assert governor, officers said.

Yero, a near ally regarding Vice President Namadi Sambo, seemed to be a new former funding commissioner inside the particular point out just before he or she became deputy in order to Yakowa a new Christian in 2010.

President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed "utter shock plus sadness" within the collision and ordered an investigation.