Southern Kaduna Killings, Group Wants Kaduna Governor, el-Rufa’I, Investigated

“We also call on independent panels of inquiries, international Humanitarian organizations, Amnesty International and other Civil Society Organizations to investigate the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai who instead of bringing the militias and killers to face law for the murderous act, has rather empowered them with more cash to buy sophisticated weapons which enables them to return to more villages for this current blood festival.”

The group also charged President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to take urgent measures to stop the wanton killings in Southern Kaduna.

The group in a statement on Monday in Abuja, bemoaned the continuous havoc in Southern Kaduna and urged the president to order for the arrest and their sponsors.

The statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Ibrahim Sani Ringim read: “We urgently call on President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President Bukola Saraki, and Speaker Yakubu Dogara, to immediately intervene in the heinous killings going on in Kaduna South and other Northern states where the minority non-core Hausa Fulani are being gruesomely rounded up and killed in cold blood.

“We are alarmed by the uncontrollable killings in Southern Kaduna, and we want to categorically state that no Nigerian should be killed in this way in their own land. It is sad that the government who should protect its citizens, has allowed the killings to escalate. We therefore call for the immediate intervention of the Federal Government.

“We also urge all those religious extremists to stop this barbaric act; no one should be killed for his or her religion or ethnicity. We are one Nigeria bound by peace, love and unity as initiated by our fore fathers. Those sponsoring this evil should, as a matter of fact, know that no religion supports killing of any kind. This act is barbaric and alien to modern civilization.

“The Christian, the Muslim either in majority or minority should co-exist in one accord. It is very unimaginable that Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, instead of bringing the killers of his people to face law and be served justice accordingly, has gone to pay these murderous evil herdsmen handsomely, which in turn has empowered them to kill and ravage more homes.

“In another shocking move by the killers, the towns in Southern Kaduna where curfew was imposed is same place these killers went on rampage and massacred a lot of innocent people. We are wondering why the curfew was imposed in the first place, if there was no adequate security on ground.

“Those at the high places playing with the blood of the innocent Nigerians should have a rethink, they should not kill or destroy what they cannot create. God Almighty who created mankind, did not give instruction that his creation should be gruesomely killed for any reason, as we are currently witnessing in Kaduna South and other part of Nigeria.

“We call on the Government, well-meaning Nigerians and the international humanitarian organizations to quickly intervene. The people of Southern Kaduna should not be made to suffer the hell they are being subjected to by the Kaduna state government. Adequate security should be provided for them and the killers, supporters and sponsors should be hunted and be brought to justice.

It warned that, “This evil must stop now, before the whole country is thrown into another needless civil war. Fresh in our mind are the massacre of the Shiites, IPOB members and other Nigerians, which are still generating issues. We cannot afford to make the daily killing a norm, which will provoke the people of Nigeria to carry weapons against their killers soonest. It is better for the killers to stop now, to allow peace to reign.”