…Laments neglect by FG
The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) yesterday disclosed that it had written the United Nations, European Union and Africa Union on the plight of its people amid intractable insecurity.
The National President of SOKAPU, Jonathan Asake, revealed this during a session with newsmen at the weekend, asking the international community to wade into the plight of the Southern Kaduna people.
The group added that it was tired of begging Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmed el-Rufa’i, to end the carnage going on in Southern Kaduna.
SOKAPU expressed grievance following the June 5 attack by allegedly armed herdsmen on Maikori and three other Adara villages in Kajuru local government area, Southern Kaduna, killing 32 persons and kidnapping 27 villagers.
Speaking on the attack, Asake lamented the security situation in Southern Kaduna, stating that the region was now facing wanton killings, which had become a ‘reality’ for them for many years.
The National President said the Federal Government needed to intervene because, according to him, the State Government has shown that they are complicit.
One of the survivors, a native of Chikun local government area and former resident of Maikoro, who spoke to newsmen on condition of anonymity, said the villagers now lived in bunkers afraid of further attacks.
Another resident said: “Our lives are finished. We cannot leave our ancestral lands to these militias who are bent on taking us back to the Stone Age”.
