By Amos Tauna The President, Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, Mr. Jonathan Asake, has cried out that Southern Kaduna is curren...
By Amos Tauna
The President, Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, Mr.
Jonathan Asake, has cried out that Southern Kaduna is currently undergoing
serious humanitarian crisis.
He explained that in Chikun Local Government Area alone, 18
communities have been permanently displaced with about 32 schools closed as a
result of the incessant invasion, abduction or kidnapping of residents.
Speaking at the interdenominational prayer organized by the
Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Kaduna State chapter for the restoration
of peace in Southern part of the state and the state as a whole, Mr. Asake
said, “Let no one be deceived, the agenda of these incessant attacks is to take
over our land.
“The same story goes to Kajuru Local Government Area where
over 30 communities have been living in permanent displacement with over 50,000
people being displaced from their communities with no recognised camps to cater
for these people. Only spiritual organisations, some good individuals and other
groups that attend to them.
“There are some people that are not even known of where they
are staying.”
“We are law-abiding citizens, we live by the law but we have
gathered these resources and give our political leaders the trust to protect
us, the constitution prescribed it that the basic essence of government is the
security and welfare of the people. This security is not there in our
communities with property worth billions of naira are destroyed every time and
nothing is being done.
“The perpetrators, some of them are occupying our
communities, they are still there and some are not occupying but you dire not
go there, you will be killed because many have lost their lives trying to go
back to those communities. The perpetrators must be apprehended because they
are known and should be brought to book,” he explained.
He noted, “What is the way forward? The voice of our
governor always comes to me who said the way forward is the communities that
are the victims, that are being massacred every day and being chased out that
the solution lies with those same people. What a wrong narrative, what are the
resources that you collect every month in Abuja. He has told the world that he
has collected N16 billion to keep security, where is the security?”
Mr. Asake lamented, “Right from 11th June, 2020, Zangon
Kataf has been under 24-hour curfew, the people dire not go to farm, you dire
not go to the market. By any standards in the world, there has been no time
that you impose 24-hour curfew on the people but it has been done and nobody is
taking care of this people. They are under hunger, but the worst of the story
is that within the time, we have had three major attacks in the local
government with almost 70 lives been killed and properties destroyed.
“So the solution does not lay with the people, it lays with
the authorities.”
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