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🇿🇼 Published: 06 April 2026
📘 Source: Daily Dispatch

Buffalo City Metro mayor Princess Faku has vowed to remove the “Igbo king” and shut down the infamous California drinking establishment in KuGompo City. Faku announced plans to gather thousands of women for a peaceful march on Friday to take a stand and remove the reported “king” and act against drug dens, with California, which is alleged to be the city’s crime hotspot, apparently set to be closed. The planned march comes hot on the heels of a violent protest last week, which was fuelled by the reported coronation of the Nigerian “king”.

Ten cars and several buildings were damaged during the unrest. “We will gather thousands of women and remove that ‘king’ out of our city and close down California peacefully just like the generation of 1956 [the famous march led by women to Pretoria in protest against the apartheid regime],” Faku said in the poster. According to the poster, the march will address community concerns and call for action regarding the closure of California in Park Street, North End.

Senior community policing forum (CPF) leader Ludumo Salman, who has been vocal over the years about the push to close California, has welcomed the pending mass action. “I appreciate the effort or the thought of addressing our nightmare all these past years since it became apparent what California was [allegedly] all about,” Salman said. “It’s better a late effort from our executive mayor than no effort at all.

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Originally published by Daily Dispatch • April 06, 2026

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