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Former senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani has tackled the Presidency over comments on the incessants killings in Southern Kaduna.
MERIDIAN SPY reported 29 people were reportedly killed by unknown gunmen in the area.
Explaining the reason why the situation still persist despite efforts in the deployment of troops, Special Forces of both the Army and the Air Force and other security interventions, Garba Shehu said the “insecurity in Southern Kaduna State is more complicated than many people are willing to admit”.
“It is a situation in which one criminal group will kill a member of another criminal group out of ethnic and religious motivations which in turn leads to the eruption of revenge and counter-revenge, thereby making the job of the security personnel deployed to protect lives more difficult,” said Shehu.
“We note that revenge and counter-revenge only creates a circle of violence, thereby making everyone else unsafe, especially innocent people.”
But countering the media aide’s statement on Saturday, Senator Sani said the killings are acts of terrorism and should be treated as such.
“The continuous violence and bloodshed in southern Kaduna stands is unconscionable and stands unreservedly condemned,” he said.
“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.
“The federal and state government must live up to their moral and constitutional duties and responsibilities by ending the slaughter and the carnage now.
“The killings in southern Kaduna is not a revenge, it’s terrorism and must be treated as such. Gunmen have become the government. Funerals services have become a daily routine. We are becoming a nation of endless mourning and ceaseless bereavement.
“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 dies 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.”
