Southern Kaduna attacks assuming a genocidal proportions - SOKAPU alleges 

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, has alerted the world that Southern Kaduna communities have been under constant invasions and massacres which is fast assuming a genocidal proportion.

The union also alleged that the rate at which invasions are taking place in the area and the attendant displacement has assumed a dimension that would culminate into the wiping out of communities if there is no intervention.

Briefing newsmen in Kaduna on Thursday, on the incessant attacks by suspected Fulani militias, SOKAPU National President, Jonathan Asake, said, “The ongoing attacks on our communities points to the fact that there is a deliberate ethnic cleansing ripping across Southern Kaduna which the authorities have turned a blind eye to.”

Jonathan Asake explained, “On Monday, May 11, 2020, Gonar Rogo, another defenceless community in Kajuru Local Government Area, came under assault from Fulani Herdsmen Militia. The following day, the attackers extended their murderous expedition to Bakin Kogi where residents had fled the town. They burnt down the town and launched another assault on another village, Idanu.

“In the early hours of Wednesday, the murderous gang of terrorists moved to Makyali where several persons were killed. In Agwala village, an old lady was mercilessly hacked to death. In total, these attacks have so far claimed 27 lives within 48 hours, while the injured have been taken to various medical facilities for attention. Efele, Ungwan Modi and Ungwan Rana villages were also attacked and hundreds of residents displaced.”

He added that Galiwyi community in Chikun local government area also came under invasion by herdsmen militia who chased away the men and turned their wives and daughters into sex slaves after occupying the community. “This impunity lasted a week a fortnight ago, without any intervention from the authorities,” he lamented.

“As we address you this afternoon, tension has spread to several communities in Kajuru local government area, especially Idon and Doka, with fear-stricken residents fleeing in droves for fear of impending attacks. The atmosphere of death and destruction now holds sway in our communities.

“We are, therefore, very pained and shocked at the reaction of the Presidency that asserted that these unprovoked attacks were reprisals and revenge. We are extremely disappointed that Sen. Uba Sani, who is the Senator representing Kaduna Central, described these attacks as revenge because he should know the truth. Could it be that the Presidency and Sen. Uba Sani know what we don’t know?

“Anyone describing the recent attacks as reprisals and revenge is either mischief or part of a grand agenda of ethnic cleansing against our people which is currently being pursued with more vigor and determination more than ever before.

“For the avoidance of doubt, all attacks, invasions and killings are properly documented. SOKAPU has the names of towns and identities of victims of these mindless attacks on our communities, with some of them widely published. We insist that the recent invasions are a continuation of a deliberate and entrenched agenda of subjugating and 0ccupying our ancestral lands,” SOKAPU observed.

He explained that last week, villagers in Kabrasha community in Chikun Local Government Area noticed a ‘strange helicopter’ hovering around the town. The unusual presence of the flying object made them flee into neighbouring communities for safety, adding that not long after that, there were explosions that partly destroyed the Assemblies of God Church and some other houses.

“Strangely, the military had declared that they had carried out a military operation targeted at flushing out bandits from villages in Chikun, Birnin Gwari and Giwa LGAs. There have been reports from communities that have suffered similar invasions of a ‘mysterious’ helicopter that normally hovers over a targeted community before its eventual attack. To us, the explosions following the hovering of the sighted ‘mysterious helicopter’ in Kabrasha fits the narrative of previous attacks,” he explained.

“Our position on the Kabrasha attack reminds us of the widely reported story of the importation of two highly weaponized drones that were intercepted by the Military Intelligence at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, on Jan 28, 2020.

“On interrogation, the individual behind the importation of the intercepted weapons claimed that the military consignment was headed for Kaduna state. Within 48 hours of the arrest and detention of the suspect and drones, the Commander of Nigeria Air Defence Corps was said to have received a call from unknown persons. He would later order for the release of both the suspect and weapons.

“To our knowledge, weaponized drones such as the one that was intercepted can only be imported into a country with the president’s approval and the end-user must be the country’s armed forces. Therefore, when it was disclosed that the end-user of this weapon was not the Federal authorities, it beats our imagination why such crass illegality was allowed.

“SOKAPU also recalls that various individuals and groups, including the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF) had called on the Federal Government to immediately order the suspension of the Commander that released both the suspect and the drones without following laid down procedures, while a judicial commission of inquiry is set up to investigate the matter.

“The SMBLF also called on the United Nations to supervise the mop-up of Nigeria’s weapons of mass destruction and other illegal arms that are being stockpiled by people for possible genocide, among other demands,” the statement recalled.

Up till now, SOKAPU said it is not aware of any commission of inquiry that was set up by the Federal Government to investigate the matter, adding that, “our communities are still living in fear in view of the rising spates of invasions ripping across Southern Kaduna on a daily basis.”

The Southern Kaduna people called on men and women of good-conscience, non-governmental organisations, civil society groups, faith-based organisations and the international community to come to their rescue by beaming their searchlight on the ethnic cleansing taking place in Southern Kaduna.

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