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  • KILLINGS:Where are Northern elders?

    KILLINGS:Where are Northern elders?

    BY EMMANUEL ONWUBIKO

    Nigerians must reinvent their collective sense of national outrage so we can know that we are actually a part of the comity of nations and same as the rest of the human race.

    I am beginning this essay in the aforementioned format because it is abundantly evident that the killings of citizens by terrorists and other armed non- state actors have made millions of Nigerians to lose their sense of righteous indignation and collective outrage especially in the face of the affront to our common humanity by those who kill in small and large numbers.

    Another sociological impact of the serial killings of citizens in Nigeria by terrorists is the erosion of the tested and trusted cultural value systems we once held so dear here.

    Those who are the conflicts entrepreneurs and are actively engaged in carrying out mass execution of innocent Nigerians are part of one community or the other in Nigeria and those who carry out these terrorist attacks in the North are from the northern communities.

    Terrorists are not ghosts or spirits. The other day some Northern Women were arrested for hiring their daughters to the terror gangs in the forests for sexial gratification.  Many members of different Northern communities have been arrested but not charged after police parade of supplying logistics and foods to terrorists.

    A particular man in Kaduna got picked up by the police for allegedly being the one baking breads for terrorists in different forests in the North West. There have been lots of publicly announced arrests of women supplying guns and petrol to terrorists in the North. 

    There are also informants who provide actionable intelligence to terrorists which are used by these agents of death to carry out mass killings of individuals in those same communities whereby these informants are born and bred. So terrorists have collaborators amongst their kits and kins.

    Terrorists do not fall from outer space. These communities have sets of social, cultural and religious values and norms and these communities are peopled by amongst others the elders who are the natural leaders. 

  • Federal, State Advised To Control Incessant Killings Of Nigerian Citizens -Gumbi

    Federal, State Advised To Control Incessant Killings Of Nigerian Citizens -Gumbi

    By Muhammad Goronyo, Sokoto

    Alhaji Abubakar Abdullahi Gumbi has called on Federal and state governments to as matter of urgency intervene in the incessant Killings of Nigerian Citizens especially in this part of north western part of the country.
    Gumbi who is the former staff of Internal Affairs Ministry and Sokoto state gubernatorial aspirant says too many Killings, kidnappings, rapes and rustlings occurred within the last two weeks.
    He said hundreds of farmers also abandoned their farm produce in fear of being killed, kidnapped or tormented by bandits while trying to get what they can feed their families and settle day to day problems.
    “Neither farmers nor rearers move to distant bushes with settled minds, no one is comfortable outside there”, he averred.
    This is something Federal government can control considering the strength and power of the Nigerian security agencies, he said.
  • Zamfara Explosion kills Six Girls in Magamin Diddi Village

    Zamfara Explosion kills Six Girls in Magamin Diddi Village

    Six girls were said to have died after they were hit by an explosion in a bush near Magamin Diddi village in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State on Sunday.

    A resident of the village told our correspondent yesterday that an object believed to be a bomb was found by the children in the bush and it exploded and killed six of them immediately.

    “We don’t know whether it was a bomb or not. It just exploded immediately after they picked it from the ground. The children had gone to the farm to harvest groundnut,” the resident stated.

    The spokesman of the state police command, SP Muhammad Shehu, could not be reached for comment at the time of filing this report.

    When contacted, the spokesman for the Operation Sahel Sanity of the army in the state, Colonel Aminu Iliyasu, referred our correspondent to the Defence Headquarters for information.

  • 12 officers charged in killing of 19 migrants near US-Mexico border

    12 officers charged in killing of 19 migrants near US-Mexico border


    The Tamaulipas state police are accused of murder, abuse of power and making false statements.

    Twelve police officers have been arrested in Mexico following the discovery of 19 charred corpses near the U.S. border, Tamaulipas Attorney General, Irving Barrios, said on Tuesday.

    The Tamaulipas state police are accused of murder, abuse of power and making false statements.

    The bodies were discovered on January 22 in a burned-out pickup truck next to other burned cars in the town of Santa Anita in north-eastern Mexico.

    The people had been shot dead, according to media reports.

    Among them, according to Barrios, were migrants from Guatemala.

    Media had reported that almost all of the victims were Guatemalans.

    Tens of thousands of Central Americans every month flee poverty and violence in their homeland to seek a better life in the U.S.

    One of the four dead identified so far was a Mexican migrant smuggler, according to Mr Barrios.

    The possible involvement of other police officers, as well as criminal groups smuggling Central American migrants into the U.S. and fighting for control of the region, is still under investigation, Barrios said.

  • Enough is Enough killings in S/Kaduna protest rock Kaduna

    Enough is Enough killings in S/Kaduna protest rock Kaduna

    ..As Christian Leadesr decry that govt knows the bandits

    By Ujah Simon, Kaduna

    Christians Spiritual fathers, Pastors and church leaders from different denominations across the length and width of Kaduna State yesterday Sunday protested and made a final declaration against further attack and killings in southern part of Kaduna in kaduan State.
    The indoor protest and gathering of Christian Church leaders and members, all appearing in back cloths, attire and placards, which took place at Ekwa Goodness church premises Narayi highcost, was attended by unprecedeted crowd.
    During the sermons, the Christian leaders including one Rev. Ishaya Adamu jangando, president Baptist conference Kaduna, said Christians would no longer be silent anymore about the attacks and killings in southern kaduna.
    He also said, during the protest prayers and placards with different inscriptions, that Christians will not stop praying until the attacks and killings stopped in southern Kaduna.

    Quoting lsaiah chapter 62: and several other versus from the Bible, the clergies also prayed that southern Kaduna must be set free from attacks and killings, and asking God almighty father to arrest those behind the incessant attacks and killings of inecent people.

    “As many as wanted to put assonder in southern Kaduna peace initiatives, let God scatter them, destroy the evils and bring peace to southern Kaduna.
    “The killing of God sons and daughters of southern Kaduna be brought to the end and the people set free by God in jusus name!”, he prayed.

    Also in his aggressive remarks, the chairman of CAN Kaduna State and organiser of the prayer programme, Rev. Joseph Hayab queried that instead of arresting the bandits killings the people of southern kaduna, both federal and state government were busy speaking for the bandits because they know them.

    He said “For our President and Governor to speak for the bandits means they known them, also calling for immediate arrest of the person who made the recent audio on reasons for killing in southern kaduna, by governments.
    “Givernnment should arrest those who made the audio. If that audio were made by Christians they would have been arrested by now. We are not afraid of anybody again. “People are misunderstanding the teachings of Christianity that if they slap you on one ear, turn the second one, for granted.
    Rev. Hayab noted with dismay I that Nigeria President, IGP and governors, who could arrest criminals, killers and bandits could send police to Sokoto, Lagos to arrest imam, others to appologise for criticising them.
    “Any government agent can record me and don’t care, everything I said is within the confined of the law. “Government should explained how criminals operates under curfew by going to People’s house and killed them. How many times, their will be curfew in place, and bandits will go and kills in kajuru, Zango Kataf, other.
    “The law should be made for everybody, there is new sickness now konwn as diarrhea of the mouth. Kaduna governor should stop speaking carelessly”, CAN lamented.

    He lamented thatl Nigerians states are being govern by propaganda and urged journalists to remain umbias and not to “be sell out to politicians.
    He said a situation where a pastor and a son of the pastor “who are not farmers were killed, is unfair to said is herders farmers clashes.

    “Church leaders should stand for truth and be fearless.
    Some pastors are helping the church for collecting palliatives and hide them from members.
    “Every Church members coming next week should come in full blacks cloth compulsory with placardd by 2pm.
    Those who compromised, we’re watching you. No maching on our neck in southern Kaduna anymore. If they don’t want us to speak let them do the right things.
    “Ask God to deal with killing in southern kaduna, the way He deal with Nebukadniza.
    “I don’t hate fulani, which is wrong for people to say so, but I hate killers if southern Kaduna.
    “We’ll not stop crying until we see His hand work. Let Him Complete the work started and be glorify.
    ” Governor Ahamed
    Makarfi, Namadi Sambo and other previous Governor who were not Christian were not hated by Christian. But some are thinking that christians hate them.
    CAN Chairman thanked all the Christian leaders and members for the attendance in the prayers against Killing, including PDP state chairman of Hon. Hassan Hyet and others.

  • Killings: Plateau youths urge FG to secure federal highways

    Killings: Plateau youths urge FG to secure federal highways

    Plateau Youths, under the aegis of Plateau Youths G17 Peace and Progressive Forum, have called on the Federal Government to secure federal roads across the country to minimise attacks on commuters.

    Leader of the group, Mr John Baling, made the call at a candle light procession on Sunday in Jos.

    The youths organised the procession in honour of Dalep Dachiya, a 200 Level student of the University of Maiduguri, who was murdered by members of an insurgent group.

    Dachiya was abducted on Jan. 9, on his way to Maiduguri to resume school, and was later killed by his abductors.

    Baling also called on the government and the security agencies to step-up their game and end insurgency and all forms of criminality in the country.

    The leader advised government to seek external support from international communities to end insurgency in the country.

    “As Plateau youths, we are disturbed by the escalating state of insecurity and wish to bare our concerns on the state of insecurity in the country.

    “The Federal Government should take urgent steps to secure federal roads and communities in the country, particularly those within the North-East.

    “International assistance should be solicited in improving security in the country with special consideration given to securing travelers on our highways.

    “We call on the Federal Government and security agencies to rise to the challenges by upholding their sacred oaths to defend and protect the lives of citizens as well as the territorial integrity of the country,” he called.

    Baling urged government to take threats by Boko Haram and other armed groups seriously, urging that proactive measures be put in place to secure lives of Plateau citizens and other Nigerians in the North-East.

    He also called on security agencies to intensify efforts to secure the release of Miss Lilian Gyang and Bashiru Abdulhamid who were abducted by members of the sect recently. (NAN)