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SOKAPU accuses El-Rufai’s of plot to incite violence over ‘Kajuru Killings’

By Jennifer Yusuf

 

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has accused Kaduna state Governor Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai of plot to incite violence in the state over his allegation that 66 Fulani were killed in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state.

In a statement signed by Yakubu Kozami, the Union expressed concern over the real motive behind the governor’s disclosure, made public less than 24 hours before the commencement of national polls that were later postponed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

“We are of the view that el-Rufai’s comments over the Kajuru killings was deliberately orchestrated to inflame ethnic and religious sentiments to produce yet another cycle of bloodshed”

It noted that SOKAPU has reached out to the various community leaders in Kajuru, including officials of the Adara Nation to ascertain what actually happened and observed that on Sunday, February 10, 2019, the Adara natives residing in Ungwar Barde in Kufana District of Kajuru Local Government Area came under attack by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen. “The attack lasted from 10pm of Sunday to 4am of Monday February 11, 2019. By the time the merchants of deaths and destructions were through with their mission, no fewer than 11 lives, including a pregnant woman, were lost. Scores of victims of the attack on Ungwar Barde sustained injuries, with some of them presently receiving treatment at some health facilities in the state capital. We have been informed that the attackers, seven of them in number, were arrested by a team of policemen. Sadly, not a statement was issued by el-Rufai over that gruesome attack on Ungwan Barde”.

 

It further noted that following the Sunday attack on Ungwan Barde, residents of Ungwan Busa and Doruwa located in Kajuru LGA deserted their villages for safety. Presently, the District Head of Kufana and four of his village heads, on the directive the governor, have been summoned to Kaduna and ordered to produce persons behind ‘reprisal attacks’. However, the monarchs have told their interrogators that they are unaware of any ‘reprisal attacks’ and, therefore, unable to identify persons behind such attacks. Apart from the 11 corpses of Adara natives that were killed during the Sunday attack, the community leaders have denied knowledge of any attack.

 

Arising from the above, SOKAPU in the statement said it was shocked at the “deliberate falsehood by el-Rufai who found it convenient not to inform the world of an earlier attack that claimed the lives of 11 Adara natives”

SOKAPU the statement said is convinced that Governor el-Rufai is on an “irrevocable journey of inflaming ethnic conflagration that has always been in line with his deliberate chronicle of profiling Southern Kaduna people as favourably disposed to violence”.  

It therefore called on Nigerians and the world to beware of the governor because it has always been his character to promote violence through spreading hate speech for the advancement of his waning political survival.  

“If the governor, who was aware that Adara natives were killed on Sunday, neglected to come public, then Nigerians and the world  are well placed to understand the nebulous and evil motives of el-Rufai who once shocked Nigerians on national television that he had paid whopping sums of money to foreign herdsmen involved in attacking communities in Southern Kaduna”

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