Following the worsening insecurity in Kaduna State and alleged repressive policies of the State governor, Nasir el-rufa’i, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Alhaji Yusuf Ali, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately impose a state of emergency to save the State.
In an open letter to President Buhari, Ali urged him to do everything possible to rescue the State from looming anarchy.
According to him, “We have watched helplessly in Kaduna State where the President’s efforts are not being replicated. Rather, we have a situation whereby deliberate acts of commission or omission and anarchy have taken over”.
He further said, “Mr. President is no doubt aware that no single day passes without massive killings, kidnappings, arson and wanton destruction of property in Kaduna State. The citizens and residents are becoming numb to serial publications of death and destruction every day”.
Ali lamented that “farming activities are being negatively impacted on a scale that will herald famine throughout the state. Trading and other normal activities of life are equally affected. Even performing religious obligations is becoming difficult as places of worship are routinely targeted, burnt and destroyed with attendant loss of lives.
“The Kaduna–Abuja Road, Kaduna–Kachia Road, Kaduna–Zaria Road, Kaduna–Birnin/Gwari Road are all under siege by bandits and kidnappers. Businesses are daily relocating from the State. Residents are helpless and go about their lives with trepidation”.
Ali further lamented that in all of these, there is the virtual absence of governance as the whole Government in the State is a one-man affair“.
“The President has power under Section 305 of the Constitution to declare a state of emergency where the above situation and circumstances exist in the Federation or any part thereof”, the APC chieftain stated.
