The Senator representing Kaduna-South senatorial district, Danjuma Laah, has disclosed reasons he wept on different occasions on the floor of the Red Chamber while presenting motions on banditry attacks in his constituency.
According to the lawmaker, the activities of bandits in Southern Kaduna, in the thinking of some of his fellow Senators at that time looked like a Southern Kaduna issue alone, pointing out that if he opens up on what he knows about banditry, heads will roll.
Speaking on the development in his senatorial district, the lawmaker recalled how he told senators that one day, all the 109 Senators will encounter insecurity in form of bandits, kidnapping insurgency and other forms of criminality, stressing that his words have come to pass.
His words: I have wept times without number; but I knew time shall come and time has come because while I was weeping in the chamber when presenting motions on banditry in Southern Kaduna, I said that one day somehow, that these things will affect every one of us. Because we were thinking that it was just meant for Southern Kaduna; but tell me which State in this country has not been affected by bandits?
“Bandits dont have friends; they dont know tribes, they dont know religion. Whoever you are and they find you, its about money”.
The lawmaker added that after he presented a Motion on insecurity in Southern Kaduna in the Red Chamber severally, he stopped talking, stating that if he continued based on what he knows, heads would roll and the world will turn upside down; so, it’s better I allow the sleeping dog lie”.
He said banditry activities in Southern Kaduna were not new, while he expressed his hope that in the on-going onslaught against criminal elements in the North, those who raise and trained bandits should drive them away.
