The Committee of Assessment of Damages in the Billiri Crisis was asked to investigate the root causes of the violence and take account of human and material losses.Īdamu Dishi, the chairperson of the committee, while releasing the findings, on June 1, said 41 residential houses, 401 business premises and 33 worship centres were burnt and seven lives were lost to the crisis. The obstruction of traffic by the protesters left people travelling between Adamawa, Taraba, Benue and other parts of the country stranded on the highway.īut the street protests soon snowballed into a full-blown violent crisis.ĭanlala, Mr Alhassan’s brother, was one of the seven persons killed and their house was among the over 475 structures destroyed, a committee set up by the governor in April after the mayhem, later found.
They suspected the delay was because the governor wanted to appoint someone other than the man who they said got the highest number of votes from the kingmakers in the selection process.
It was burnt beyond recognition,” heĬhristians and Muslims have co-existed peacefully for decades in Billiri, Billiri Local Government Area of Gombe State in North-east Nigeria.īut the relationship now rests on a knife’s edge after a violent crisis early this year over the appointment of the new traditional ruler for the Tangale ethnic group.īetween February 17 and 20, scores of protesters from Billiri and neighbouring towns blocked the Gombe-Yola highway, accusing Governor Inuwa Yahaya of delaying the appointment of the Mai Tangale. But the search party found his body lying in the rubble of the bed in our room. “At first, we didn’t know he was dead so we started searching for him, hinking he had also run out. “The protesters burnt the house down with Danlala still inside.” “He was too weak to run”, began Mr Alhassan while narrating his ordeal to PREMIUM TIMES in October. Mr Alhassan, who said he is still troubled by the incident, said everybody in the premises ran out, except the sick Danlala. On the eve of Friday, February 19, Mr Alhassan was attending to sick Danlala, in their room at the junkyard, when a mob surrounded their vicinity. Mustapha Alhassan has not resumed his ‘bola’ (trash collection) work in Billiri, nine months after the death of his brother, Danlala.
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