UN, ICC Should Probe Southern Kaduna Killings -CRA

The Christian Rights Agenda (CRA), has called on the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague to open investigation into what it described as the ongoing genocide in Southern Kaduna.

CRA in a statement by Tom Chiahemen, Interim Director of Publicity said that this was the high-point of CRA’s consultative meeting which ended in Abuja on Saturday.

The body in the statement lamented the continuous killings and annihilation of indigenous Christians in Kajuru, Chikun and other local government areas of Southern Kaduna.

The statement also noted with concern the nonchalant attitude of both the federal and Kaduna state government and said they cannot be absolved of complicity. 

This it said was heightened by the fact that both the President of the country and governor of Kaduna are not only Muslims but have presided over government policies that did not protect the interest of Christians. 

“It is time for the Prosecutor of the ICC Ms Fatou Bensouda, to set up a fact-finding panel in order to end the pogrom before it is too late. What is obvious is that the Nigerian state has failed to protect the Southern Kaduna indigenous Christian communities and the situation is deteriorating on daily basis,” it said.

“In some instances, villagers have reported sighting helicopters dropping strange people and parcels in the bush which they believed to be weapons for the terrorist ahead of attacks.”

“The killings in Southern Kaduna has all the semblance of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The time for the ICC to act is now before it is too late,” it said.

The CRA said it had taken Judicial notice of the fact that the Kaduna State Government, under Governor Nasiru Elrufai, has not only been silent over these killings, neither has he visited any of the destroyed villages nor visited those taking shelter in various Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)  Camps in the area.

“The CRA recalls that in February 2019, Governor El-Rufai was quick to announce alleged killings in the area where he reeled out unsubstantiated figures that were later disputed by the Police and Army.

“Yet, the same Governor, who, some months ago, visited victims of Banditry in Birnin Gwari and even apologized for his government’s inability to protect the people as the chief security officer of the state, has not found it worthy to do same to Christian dominated Southern Kaduna where indigenous Christians are being killed almost on daily basis,” the statement noted.

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