By; AMOS TAUNA, Kaduna
The Southern Kaduna People in Diaspora (SOKAPDA) Europe, has condemned in very strong terms, the incessant killings in Southern Kaduna in recent times and destruction of property.
The group noted that those who masterminded the dastardly act sought to execute a scorched earth policy aimed at total extermination of a people.
Mr. Casimir P Biriyok and Dr. Janet Nale, President and Secretary of the group in a statement said, “This unprovoked attack occurred barely four months after the mass murder of 38 harmless villagers in Malagum, Kamuru–Ikulu and Abun (Broni Prono) also in Southern Kaduna on the 18th of December, 2022. A month ago, 17 lives were lost, while an untold number of innocent persons were injured in Ungwan Wakili and other villages in Zangon Kataf Local Government of Kaduna State.
“We the indigenous people of Southern Kaduna represented by SOKAPDA in Europe find it incomprehensible that human lives seem to have little or no value in Nigeria in general and Kaduna State in particular. These attacks are obviously calculated to inflict maximum damage without any consideration for the young, elderly, or women. Those who masterminded the dastardly act sought to execute a scorched earth policy aimed at total extermination of a people.”
The statement lamented that the real tragedy is that there is no empathy with the dispossessed by the political leadership of the state, as no prominent politician either in the legislature or the executive has made an attempt to visit the violence-prone areas to condole those deprived of lives and limbs, and lack the means to replace damaged shelters.
The group further lamented that the political class is asleep, only to awake when they need votes to remain in office, stressing that the elected representatives at both the state and federal level ought to be foremost in the search for solutions to the mayhem depleting Southern Kaduna population.
It explained that it appears to them in the diaspora that these innocent souls are on their own, saying that the was the urgent need for the victims to be provided with basic skills for self defence against the attacks of those after them.
The group called on the Association of Southern Kaduna Lawyers to be in court challenging the unwillingness of the state and federal governments to positively respond to the cries of their people for respite from incessant attacks by both miscreants and political marauders.
The members said that they are frustrated that in the 21st century, technology like phone tracking, geo-orbits satellite, drones and old-fashion spying and others are not being fully utilised and deployed to track these blood thirsty marauders.
The statement alleged that those responsible for the security of the people are either negligent or possibly part of the problem.
According to the statement, “this is a planned case of genocide, and this has turned the peaceful Southern Kaduna that we once knew and love for its beautiful environment and peace loving people into a mass burial site.”
The statement explained that their hearts remain with all the families that they (victims) left behind, saying that it is only the Almighty God that can console them in these challenging periods as they sympathized with every individual who has in one way or the other been affected negatively by the random killings that seem to have no end in sight.
