Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf has demanded compensation for the travellers killed in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State last Thursday.
The hunters whom most of them were from Kano were intercepted and gruesomely killed by a mob under the guise of kidnapping.
Yusuf while demanding justice and compensation for the hunters also insisted that the arrested perpetrators must be paraded for people, especially the bereaved families, to see.
He insisted they must also be taken to court and punished according to the law.
Yusuf made the demands when his Edo counterpart Monday Okpebholo paid a condolence visit over the killing of the travellers in Edo state.
“It is a known fact that our people were coming from Port Harcourt when the unfortunate thing happened. They were gruesomely killed; many of them were burnt to ashes. Majority of them are from Kano, from two local government areas,” Yusuf said.
He, however, commended Governor Okpebholo and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the swift decisions they took in ordering security personnel to go after the perpetrators while condoling with families of the slain travellers to dose tensions.
The Edo Governor Monday Okpebholo, who was received at the Ante Chamber of Government House Kano, assured that “the perpetrators must be brought to book.”
He also pledged to assist the families of the victims.
