Shehu Sani, former senator
representing Kaduna central, says the killings in southern Kaduna are acts of
terrorism.
Kaduna has witnessed repeated
killings in the past one week. Over 40 people have been killed in communities
in Kaura, Zangon-Kataf, Kauru and Kajuru local government areas of the state.
On July 21, Garba Shehu,
presidential spokesman, issued a statement saying the recent killings in Kaduna
are motivated by politics and revenge.
The presidency said the situation
in that part of the state is more complicated than what most people think, and
that southern Kaduna enjoys comprehensive security deployments.
Nasir el-Rufai, governor of the
state, said though the killings are usually given ethnic and religious
undertones, the bandits still “attack people irrespective of their religion or
ethnicity”.
In a statement on Saturday, the
former senator said the killings are acts of terrorism and should be treated as
such.
“The continuous violence and
bloodshed in southern Kaduna stands is unconscionable and stands unreservedly
condemned,” he said.
“The blood of the innocent is
being spilt in the most unimaginably cruel and unspeakably evil manner and with
impunity. In southern Kaduna, the north has lost its conscience and the nation
has lost its will and spirit. Terrorists have turned southern Kaduna to a
mortuary and a graveyard.
“The federal and state government
must live up to their moral and constitutional duties and responsibilities by
ending the slaughter and the carnage now.
“The killings in southern Kaduna
is not a revenge, it’s terrorism and must be treated as such. Gunmen have
become the government. Funerals services have become a daily routine. We are
becoming a nation of endless mourning and ceaseless bereavement.
“Where women and children are
killed and buried every day, the evil that will hunt and torment the nation has
been planted. Nigerian political elites shed more tears when their friends dies
and no tears when their poor people die.
“The Nigerian poor respectfully
mourn the death of the rich or the powerful, the Nigerian rich or the powerful
have no tears for the death of the poor.
“Where the people cannot be
protected from systemic killings and are not allowed to defend themselves, the
government carries the sum of the moral burden of guilt and complicity.
“The national flag is splashed
with blood each time an innocent man or woman is killed.”
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