Senator Shehu Sani
EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna
Immediate past Senator, Kaduna Central Senatorial district, Shehu Sani, has condemned the worsening insecurity in Southern Kaduna, maintaining that whenever a people face cruelty, genocide, massacre and all kinds of atrocities, it is the moral duty of every man or woman with conscience to lend his or her voice against inhumanity.
Senator Sani made this known when he paid a courtesy visit to the National Headquarters of Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) in Kaduna.
While affirming his total support for SOKAPU against the genocide in Southern Kaduna, he conveyed his condolences to families of victims and the people of Southern Kaduna.
Responding, Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) President, Hon. Jonathan Asake revealed that Kaduna state has never been as divided at any time as it is now under the present government of Nasir el-Rufai. He called on the federal government to do the needful by reversing the ugly trend in the area.
Sani who was received by members of the National Executive Committee of SOKAPU, reiterated that whenever people face cruelty, genocide, massacre and all kinds of atrocities it must be condemned in strongest terms.
“I have spoken for the people of Zamfara state very elaborately. I did so for Sokoto, Katsina, Niger , Taraba State and for Birnin Gwari in Kaduna and Borno, including Benue state and a host of others who are facing similar evils. You can’t rationalize or give excuses for an act of genocide, cruelty, mass murder and execution of human beings. There is no justification for that. I speak condemning the killings; it is the same way we have to speak against what is happening in Southern Kaduna. If you’re a Christian or Muslim in Southern Kaduna your voice must be heard clearly, explicitly and unambiguously in condemning the killings going on. We must not shy away from the truth, Sani said.
He regretted that silence and rationalization of such attack by the political leadership “shows you’re in league with banditry and terrorism, adding that women are killed, children burnt and ladies are raped and a human being will still try and find a justification by rationalization those evil acts, is unbelievable”.
Sani went on: “It is very clear that Muslims outside of Kaduna state are aligning with the Muslims in Kaduna state the same thing with the Christians. Let Kaduna state not become the seed of destruction of Nigeria. If Mustapha is killed Christopher must condemn the killing of Mustapha, so also if Christopher is killed Mustapha must outrightly condemn his killing, but if you try to justify and rationalize the killing of Mustapha you’re already in the league with the killers.
“In pursuit of ideals and ideas there must be challenges. There will be sabotage and traitors from your own cycle who have decided to be slaves to people who enslave. There will also be a group of touts who will not understand your right to defend and protect your people.
“When there is a systematic targeting of certain people, say it as it is. It is incumbent for those in Southern Kaduna and Northern Kaduna to know that if we don’t unite to fight these terrorists we’ll end up fighting ourselves.
“The people of Southern Kaduna have no any other place to go. You’re African indigenous people. There is no indigenous Bajju, Jaba or Ikulu in Sokoto, you can only find them there. They are not in Gombe or Zamfara State as natives of these places. They are only in Southern Kaduna. By simple historical and social development those Southern Kaduna is pure African Indigenous tribes. I am a Hausa man and I can claim to say I am from Jigawa State or Sokoto State but you Bajju you cannot. That shows the peculiarity of the Southern Kaduna people. Any other person can claim to come from anywhere except the people of Southern Kaduna. It is not an idea but it is the truth.
“The Southern Kaduna People have no history that they migrated from Babylon, or Damascus. That means right from creation you have been created to be in that place.
“Continue to defend what is right and just of your people. I keep tab of everything that is going on in Southern Kaduna, I have images, videos. I have a library were I document everything.
“Those among you who will betray your cause will have no any place to go rather than to come back to you at the end of the day, Senator Sani remarked.
Hon. Jonathan Asake, expressed delight over Senator Sani’s visit and commended him for his consistency in defending and speaking for the voiceless.
He said that Sani’s voice before he went into the Senate, while in the red chamber and now out of it, had been consistent on speaking for the suppressed and for justice and fairness
“You are one of the few voices that have refused to betray the course of justice, even when you ascended into governance”, Asake said.