Don’t Toe el-Rufai’s Path, US-based Group Advises Uba Sani
BY SEGUN ADEBAYO, ABUJA – Members of Southern Kaduna indigenes living in foreign countries on the platform of the Southern Kaduna In Diaspora (SOKAD) has called on Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State not to toe the path of his predecessor, Mallam Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, under whose watch Southern Kaduna witnessed ceaseless horrifying attacks and massacres.
SOKAD advised the new administration, headed by Governor Sani, “to transcend religion and ethnicity, and govern with fairness and justice,” by ensuring the “re-instatement of our two Monarchs and three district heads deposed in the last days of el-Rufai.
In a statement signed by Dr. Kamuru, F. (President SOKADUSA); Dr. Ngboze, D. (Secretary General SOKADUSA) and Mr John, S. (Financial Secretary SOKADUSA), the group lamented, “el Rufai became Governor in 2015. For 8 years, the people of Southern Kaduna were insulted, demeaned, castigated, and subjected to unprovoked violence never seen in the area since the formation of the modern Nigerian state. Rogue elements, aided, tolerated, and supported by the instruments of power of the state, embarked on a campaign to exterminate the people of Southern Kaduna where core communities were targeted. Appeals for peaceful coexistence, fairness and justice fell on deaf ears as the agents of destruction and terrorism ranged freely”.
In a bid to ensure the evil cleansing agenda of the former governor was completed, “we saw an unbridled unleashing of barbarism and state terrorism under the guise of exercising the legitimate powers of government. Pure evil descended on Southern Kaduna.
“He demoted His Royal Highness the Etum Numana, General Aliyu Iliyah Yammah (retd) and reduced him to the Chief of Arak, and then deposed him. He deposed the paramount ruler of the Piriga Chiefdom, His Highness, Jonathan Paragua Zamuna; Sacked three District Heads of Aban, Abujan Mada and Anjil in Arak Chiefdom; Targeted killings of prominent Southern Kaduna leaders, such as Dr Yakubu Sankey, former Director General of National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). He also demolished homes, businesses, and churches in Gbayi Villas community and proscribed the Atyap Community Development Association ”.
Calling on divine intervention in the affairs of Nigeria, SOKAD declared, “The proud people of SK will continue to live and thrive because of the blessings that the Almighty has bestowed on them and their land. When a legitimate leadership clothed with righteousness takes over after the dust settles, all the people of Kaduna state and Indeed Nigeria will rejoice again. But for the anarchist, who sought power to kill and destroy, it cannot and shall not end well with them. A righteous God will honor His promise to fight for and avenge for the least among us who have been grossly wronged. In Him alone we trust, even as we remain vigilant”.
