Southern Kaduna Killings ‘acts of terrorism not vengeance’ – Shehu Sani

Former Senator representing Kaduna central, Shehu Sani, says the killings in southern Kaduna are acts of terrorism, and should be treated as such.

In a statement on Saturday, Senator Sani said “The continuous violence and bloodshed in Southern Kaduna stands unconscionable and stands unreservedly condemned.

“The blood of the innocent is being spilt in the most unimaginably cruel and unspeakably evil manner and with impunity. In Southern Kaduna, the north has lost its conscience and the nation has lost its will and spirit. Terrorists have turned Southern Kaduna to a mortuary and a graveyard.

“Gunmen have become the government. Funerals services have become a daily routine. We are becoming a nation of endless mourning and ceaseless bereavement.

“The federal and state government must live up to their moral and constitutional duties and responsibilities by ending the slaughter and the carnage now.

“Where women and children are killed and buried every day, the evil that will hunt and torment the nation has been planted. Nigerian political elites shed more tears when their friends die and no tears when their poor people die.

“The Nigerian poor respectfully mourn the death of the rich or the powerful, the Nigerian rich or the powerful have no tears for the death of the poor.

“Where the people cannot be protected from systemic killings and are not allowed to defend themselves, the government carries the sum of the moral burden of guilt and complicity.

“The national flag is splashed with blood each time an innocent man or woman is killed.”

Kaduna has witnessed repeated killings in the past one week. Over 40 people have been killed in communities in Kaura, Zangon-Kataf, Kauru and Kajuru local government areas of the state.

On July 21, Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, issued a statement saying the recent killings in Kaduna are motivated by politics and revenge.

The Presidency said the situation in that part of the state is more complicated than what most people think, and that Southern Kaduna enjoys comprehensive security deployments.

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