CRA Tasks Buhari, El-Rufai On Southern Kaduna Killings

By Ella Makondo

The Christian Rights Agenda, CRA, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Nasir El-Rufai of turning a blind eye to the genocide against indigenous Christians in Southern Kaduna.

The group in a statement observed that none of the two men have issued a statements commiserating or consoling with the victims of the genocide in the region.

“Governor El-Rufai in particular even apologized to the people of Birnin Gwari area for his government’s inability and failure to protect them from attacks by bandits. Why has he not done so for #SouthernKadunaGenocide? Is it because they are #Christians?,” the group asked.

“CRA notes with pain that from nonchalance, government’s attitude towards the fate of northern minority Christians in southern Kaduna has risen to the level of deliberate mis-information with a view to changing the entire narrative ostensibly to cover-up an orchestrated plan to annihilate the people and take-over their lands.

“Over 50 people have died in Kaura, Zangon-Kataf, Kauru and Kajuru local government areas of the North-western Nigerian state in the last one week.

This situation is unacceptable, CRA stated categorically.

“Both President Buhari and Governor El-Rufai are northern Muslims whose positions on religious issues have always betrayed lack of statesmanship especially in a secular state as Nigeria.

“This is 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 in the country.

In the latest attack, presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, quickly attributed the renewed killings in the Christian dominated southern to “revenge killings and mutual violence by criminal gangs acting on ethnic and religious grounds.”

“CRA believes the federal government is not only complicit in the protracted violence that has claimed several lives but wonders what the federal government has done with the security information at its disposal in the last five years.

“Or is the presidency scared of saying the formidable security arrangement is in place to protect the Fulani militia while they kill innocent southern Kaduna indigenes.

CRA equally find Governor El-Rufai’s response to the Kaduna killings as very repulsive, dubious, wicked and a mere rehearse of the presidential narrative.

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