Nigeria, June 29 -- The Kaduna State Government has set up a 'White Paper Committee' on the 1992 Zangon-Kataf crisis that led to the death of about 2,000 people.

This position was contained in a statement by the special adviser to Governor Nasir El-Rufai on media and communications, Muyiwa Adekeye.

"The February 1992 riots in Zangon-Kataf LGA led to 95 deaths and injuries to 233 persons. In the May 1992 riots, the death toll increased, with 1,528 persons killed in Zangon-Kataf and 305 others in Zaria, Ikara and other parts of the state to which the rioting spread," Mr Adekeye wrote in the statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES.

Despite the setting up of a probe committee, previous Kaduna governments failed to act on the report.

However, a re...