The inhabitants of Southern Kaduna have protested the government’s failure to apprehend and prosecute the perpetrators of many attacks on the area since 2014.Information Guide Nigeria
A statement issued by the spokesman of Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Mr Luka Binniyat, said, “Let it be put on record that in the hundreds of attacks that have put many parts of Southern Kaduna into ruins and thousands killed since 2014, we have not seen anyone arrested and brought to book over these heinous crimes against humanity.”
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaThe union lamented what it called “the gruesome mass murder of not less than 38 harmless, armless villagers in Malagum 1 and Abun (Broni Prono) villages, Kaura Local Government Area (LGA) in Southern Kaduna”.
The statement regretted that the killings, which lasted for long, started around 11pm Sunday night simultaneously in the two villages.
“Not only were these poor innocent citizens killed, not less than100 houses were razed, with some victims burnt alive,” the forum explained.
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According to the statement, volunteers are currently combing the nearby bushes for missing people and more corpses following the gunmen’s strikes on the two settlements.
He revealed that the villagers had spotted a group of unusual ranchers riding motorbikes from different locations to make up camp in a nearby thicket a few days before.
He also lamented that when the villagers noticed the gathering, the security forces deployed in the area did nothing, adding that the heinous act comes five days after armed herdsmen herded their cattle into a farm owned by Cletus Dunia, 45, in Kpak village, a sub-unit of Kagoro, in Kaura LGA and shot him dead at close range before mutilating his corpse and fleeing with their cows.JAMB portal
According to the statement, the rampaging herdsmen also shot and killed Levi Zakaria, 19, as he was collecting yams on a field near the fleeing path of the murderer herdsmen, and that the same herdsmen killed Ezra Sunday 16, approximately 2 kilometers away, on the same day.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaIt stated that the same herdsmen killed Gaje Habila, 31, when he fell and died of exhaustion while fleeing, leaving behind a widow and a six-month-old baby, his only child, and that on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, armed men referred to as herdsmen invaded some homes in Kamuru village, Ikulu Ward, Zangon Kataf LGA in Southern Kaduna and killed four (4) people.NYSC portal
According to the statement, forty-six (46) people were killed in the attacks in Southern Kaduna over the last five days.
“We believe that the aim is to further destabilise Southern Kaduna and give excuse to the Federal Government to stop election in the area. Already there are thousands who have been chased out from their ancestral homes as a result of similar violence unleashed on them, between 2019 and this year as the attacks are coming close to the 2023 general elections,” he added in the statement made available to DAILY POST.
Ironically, the union observed that in spite of the continuous killings of their loved ones, destruction of homes and crops in farmlands, “it is Southern Kaduna traditional leaders, clergy and human right activists that do get arrested and put in prison over allegations of ‘incitement’.”
It stated that Governor Nasir el-new Rufai’s found obligation to his citizens is to organize a quarterly press briefing to inform the world of how many of his citizens have been killed and how many have been kidnapped every quarter of the year, while doing nothing to stop the ongoing killings and kidnappings in parts of the state.
The statement went on to say that Governor Nasir el-Rufai had shown no empathy for the victims by providing them with the bare minimum of assistance that a responsible government owes its distressed citizens, and that thousands of residents of the two sacked communities and surrounding villages were fleeing their homes as IDPs with no assistance from the government.JAMB Result
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