SOUTHERN KADUNA: El-Rufai talks too much,
Doing nothing to stop
Killings – APC Chieftain
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC,
Alhaji Isa Ciroma, has debunked Governor Nasir
El-Rufai’s claim that the wanton killings and
destruction of lives and property in Southern
Kaduna is connected to the 2011 post-election
violence.
Ciroma denied the claim while fielding
questions from journalists in Kafanchan,
stressing that the killings in Southern Kaduna had
nothing to do with the 2011 post-election
violence that was fought in many parts of
Northern Nigeria.
“There is no record of Fulani herders from Mali or
elsewhere coming to Southern Kaduna as
Governor El-Rufai claimed. The Fulani I know in
Southern Kaduna are the Kachechere people.
“The Fulani men they said intruded in
Southern Kaduna, l don’t know them. I have not
seen them and I don’t talk to them. They could
be there but I don’t see them,” Ciroma added.
“l am 60 years of age and l have been living in
Southern Kaduna. If there is anything like foreign
Fulanis in the area at that time, l should know
but there was nothing like that.
“To the best of our knowledge, there is no any
strange Fulani that came from Mali or Senegal
and was killed,” Ciroma said. Ciroma also
accused Governor Nasir El-Rufai of talking too
much with nothing to show for it.
He explained that the governor was not
working to ensure that normalcy returns to
Southern Kaduna, adding, ”I don’t want to talk
too much about this Man (el-Rufai). He talks too
much on security and we have not seen anything
good in the area.
“I am a victim of the attack in Southern
Kaduna and I am neither a cattle rearer nor a
farmer but my younger brother was shot at the
chest and he died during one of the attacks by
herdsmen. This was caused by the nonchalant
attitude of our security men.”
Ciroma stressed that if the security agencies had
gone to the hideout of the terrorists killing
Southern Kaduna villagers, “I believed my brother
would have been saved. It is glaring that the
security agencies have not been asked to do their
job, which is why we are in this mess.”
He maintained that the security challenges in
Southern Kaduna has been politicize by selfish
politicians, stressing that the governor of Kaduna
state was aware that terrorists were camped
inside the forest.
“But governor El-Rufai has not taken any
proactive measure to ensure the terrorists are
cleared. If the terrorists’ camps are cleared, it will
nip the attacks going on,” he lamented.