Southern Kaduna killings should be taken as act of terrorism - Shehu Sani

Former senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has said that the Southern Kaduna killings should be taken as an act of terrorism, not vengeance.

The presidency had said that the killings were motivated by politics and revenge.

In his own part, Governor Nasir El-rufai of Kaduna State said that the killings are done by bandits without respect for ethnicity or religion.

Shehu Sani who issued a statement on Saturday urged the Federal and State Government to put an end to the crisis.

He said, “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.”