http://www.newsportng.com.ng Southern Kaduna People In Diaspora, (SOKAPDA) Europe, has alledged that the incessant attacks in Zango-Kataf and other villages in Southern Kaduna is an attempt to wipe out the indigenes from their ancestral land.
The President, SOKAPDA Europe, Mr. Casimir P Biriyok and Secretary, Dr. Janet Nale in a press statement jointly signed and made available to Journalists in Kaduna, said they found it incomprehensible that human lives seem to have little or no value in Nigeria and Kaduna State in particular.
Reacting specifically to the recent Runji village attack in Zango-Kataf, Kaduna where several lives was lost last week Saturday, SOKAPDA noted that the attacks are obviously calculated to inflict maximum damage without any consideration for the young, elderly, or women in the region.
The group lamented that the attack occurred barely 4 months after the mass murder of 38 harmless villagers in Malagum, Kamuru–Ikulu and Abun (Broni Prono) also in Southern Kaduna on the 18th of December, 2022, stressing that, A month ago, 17 lives were lost, while an untold number of innocent persons were injured in Ungwan Wakili and other villages in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
While expressing dismayed on what they termed as silence from both the state and Federal government, the group faulted prominent sons and daughters of Southern Kaduna in Politics, Academia, Law and other professions for refusing to lend their voices for the innocent people killed during the various attacks.
They lamented that despite the technologies available in the 21st century, security agencies could not be able to use them bring perpetrators to justice, expressed that the southern Kaduna they knew to be a peace loving environment has turned out to be a burial site and nobody is talking on how to proffer lasting solution to the lingering challenges.
They said, “unfortunately, the real tragedy is that there is no empathy with the dispossessed by the political leadership of the state, as no prominent politician either in the legislature or the executive has made an attempt to visit the violence-prone areas to condole those deprived of lives and limbs, and lack the means to replace damaged shelters.
“The political class is asleep, only to awake when they need votes to remain in office. The elected representatives at both the state and Federal level ought to be foremost in the search for solutions to the mayhem depleting Southern Kaduna population. After all, those ravaged by the violence supplied the votes the elected representatives needed to be in office, after promising to represent their interests.
“It appears to us in the diaspora that these innocent souls are on their own. If we may ask, who will speak for them? We expect that retired military personnel of Southern Kaduna extraction would rally support for the vulnerable people of Southern Kaduna by providing the basic skills for self defence, but they are silent.
“We also have hoped that the Association of Southern Kaduna Lawyers would be in court challenging the unwillingness of the state and federal governments to positively respond to the cries of our people for respite from incessant attacks by both miscreants and political marauders, but their voices are silent too.
“We condemn the recent mayhem which occurred last Saturday, 15th April, 2023, resulting in the loss of 33 lives and injuries to innocent citizens in Runji village located in the Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
“This unprovoked attack occurred barely 4 months after the mass murder of 38 harmless villagers in Malagum, Kamuru–Ikulu and Abun (Broni Prono) also in Southern Kaduna on the 18th of December, 2022. A month ago, 17 lives were lost, while an untold number of innocent persons were injured in Ungwan Wakili and other villages in Zangon Kataf Local Government of Kaduna State.
“We the indigenous people of Southern Kaduna represented by SOKAPDA in Europe find it incomprehensible that human lives seem to have little or no value in Nigeria in general and Kaduna State in particular. These attacks are obviously calculated to inflict maximum damage without any consideration for the young, elderly, or women. Those who masterminded the dastardly act sought to execute a scorched earth policy aimed at total extermination of a people.”
