Members of the Senate adhoc committee on the Zaria killings are going to Kaduna state today on a fact finding mission, our correspondent has gathered. The committee which was constituted to investigate the killings of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria in Zaria after an altercation with the military, met with members of the movement last week. At the meeting which was held behind closed door, representatives of the movement told the committee their own account of the incident. Our correspondent gathered that the committee resolved to visit the Kaduna state Governor Nasir El-Rufai and the Emir of Zazzau Shehu Idris during one of their meetings attended by 13 members of the panel. It was gathered that the committee’s members will also visit the movement’s Hussainiyya Islamic centre, among other property destroyed by the military after the incident in Zaria. A member of the committee confirmed the visit to our correspondent by telephone but declined further comment, saying the visit was not for public consumption. Also a document seen by our correspondent at the National Assembly showed that the committee would be in Kaduna today. Efforts to get confirmation from the chairman of the committee, Senator Ahmed Lawan yielded no result as his phone was not available at the time of filing this report.
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