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Despite Appeal Court Ruling,christian Community Kaduna State Losing Their Land by LARRY98: 8:56am On Sep 08, 2017
DESPITE APPEAL COURT RULING, THE HAUSA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OF GIDAN MADUGU KWANGA IS RIGHT NOW AT THE POINT OF LOSING THEIR LAND AND THEIR ENTIRE SETTLEMENT TO KUBAU LGA OF KADUNA STATE, FOR REFUSING TO SHARE THEIR LEGALLY OWNED LAND WITH THE MUSMLIM MAN THAT THE APPEAL COURT WARNED NEVER TO EVEN STEP HIS FOOT ON THE LAND.
What is going on again for Christ Sake, why this injustice in a broad day light? They say that there are no Hausas that are Christians yet we live in our Millions in Northern Nigeria. They call us infidels (arna; kafirai) and so, they prevent us from enjoying every entitlement every Nigerian should enjoy, and we kept quiet and continue to help ourselves with the little we can do for ourselves. They refuse us employments, good roads, health care facilities, electricity and even security. Yet we kept looking up unto God who has never failed us in all we need. Now as if such maltreatments were not enough, our young girls and married women are forcefully kidnapped, converted to Islam, our men and women are kidnapped and asked to pay huge ransom before they get released. Our settlements that we have been living in for generations are now under siege. We live every day in uncertainty of tomorrow. Our lives have been marred by one calamity to another just because we are Followers of Jesus Christ. Farming has been the major occupation of the Hausa Christians. It is very common to see graduates in our communities depending on farming because the government will not consider them eligible for employment because they are Christians. The farm that has been serving as a means of livelihood for the Hausa Christians in Nigeria are now being forcefully collected by either Traditional rulers or the Local Government Authorities. Imagine telling a particular settlement that has been living for hundreds of years to relocate just because they are Christians. Whenever we are confronted with such cases of injustice, we lack where to run to, because the constituted authorities always gang up against us. Cases are prolonged in the Courts, judgments are biased, the little resources we have will be drained by the police or the court and yet the judgment will be twisted against us. Even when on rare occasions, judgments are passed in favour of the truth, they will still go against it, and do everything possible to molest and abuse our people, and authorities that supposed to protect us will not do anything.
This is the condition of the people of Gidan Madugu Kwanga of Kubau LGA of Kaduna State, a Hausa Christian community that is now under the threat of losing the very land and community they know and owned for their entire lives.
There was a land dispute between the Hausa Christian community of Gidan Madugu Kwanga belonging to Mr. Bawa Yaro and one Alhaji Habibu Maidoki who seems to be above the law of the who Country and keeps enjoying the continuous support and protection of the entire political and traditional leaders and even Islamic leaders of Kubau Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State, Nigeria. He came from nowhere claiming that the land they have been cultivating for hundreds of years belongs to him, an issue that took them from different courts of law up to the Appeal Court. The Appeal Court gave a verdict in favour of our Hausa Christians Community on 29th April, 2016 (APPEAL NO. CA/K/63/2013; SUIT NO. KDH/Z/14/2013) giving the people the go ahead to cultivate their lands, which they did. When the owners of this land went to farm on it, the Muslim Communities descended on them and started beating our people who sustained different degrees of injuries. Another case that took them to HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE KADUNA STATE IN THE KADUNA JUDICIAL DIVISION HOLDEN IN AT KADUNA. Instead of the LGA Authority of Kubau to abide by the verdicts of these two Courts, in order to appease Alhaji Habibu Maidoki and his Muslims Communities, decided to disregard the Court Order and threaten to cease the Land if the Hausa Christian Community will not agree to share their land with the Muslims Community. And so, the Muslims keep attacking our people so as to give the LGA Authority the impression of violence as long as the land is cultivated by our people. The very land in question is very strategic to the survival of the entire Community of Madugu Kwanga. Once it is collected or ceased, their days of living in that community are numbered as long as they want to survive and not die.
We officially wrote to the LGA Authority on the implications of their biased actions and the need to follow the rule of law and due process. But they ignored it. Today being 6th of September, 2017, the Local Government Authority of Kubau has sent Tractors with armed Police men and Soldiers to bulldoze the entire farm land and erect a Signboard of the LGA claiming ownership of the land. The worst has now been done, the hope of our people is dashed, their farm produce which they spent huge money to cultivate has been destroyed, and their farm has been seized by force for the simple reason that they refuse to share what belongs to them with someone that the Court of Appeal ordered not to even step his legs into the land. All these are happening to us just because we are Christians.
They might continue to do all the evils to us but we will not falter or give up in any way. For us, to live is Christ and to die is a great gain. A GREAT ONE IN DEED! NO MATTER THE PAIN AND HUMILIATION WE WILL NEVER BOW.
We really wonder when and how the Authority of Kubau Local Government Area (LGA) becomes a court that is superior to the judgment of the court of Appeal of Nigeria. As civilized citizens and as people who respect the rule of law, we expect the man and the Local Government Area (LGA) who are clearly showing partiality to do all things possible in favour of their Alhaji brother to take the case further to the Supreme Court of the Country. We believe the Supreme Court can finally decide the course of justice since they feel not satisfied with the judgment of the Appeal Court. Rather than taking laws into their hands and infringing on the rights of our people on the land that lawfully belongs to them, they should respect and follow the rule of the law.
Taking the land forcefully from our people simply because they are Christians will not give birth to peace and we believe that such an act is a threat to our judicial system as a country, and we utterly condemn such ungodly act. By law and by right, Mallam Bawa Yaro and the entire Christian Community of Madugu Kwanga have the right to use their land as said by the judgment of the Appeal Court. More so, what will happen to the huge amount of money they invested in on the farm? They have been asked never to step into the land after cultivating it, what is the meaning of that and how will such an act give birth to peace in that community?The land is the major means of the livelihood of that community and once it is taken from them, they have no option than to relocate to another unknown place. When will the Muslims accept the truth that Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians? When will the Hausa Christians be regarded as human being, when will our leaders learn to lead in the interest of every Nigerian? The truth is already established and it should sink down into the heart of everybody that Nigeria is for Nigerians and no individual or group of people should regard anybody to be superior or inferior. We therefore want to make the following very clear to anyone whose joy is in causing us pains and trouble all the time:
1. We are not in support of any contrary step taken by the Local Government Area (LGA) of Kubau outside the judgment delivered by the Federal Court of Appeal of the country. We will not accept injustice in a broad day light. We demand that Mallam Bawa Yaro and the entire community of Madugu Kwanga should be allowed without any further delay to use their land and all damages be fully paid.
2. If anything should be done to endanger the lives and properties of our people, the Alhaji Habibu Maidoki and the Local Government Area (LGA) Chairman of Kubau should be held responsible
3. We must live in the North, it is also ours. We utterly hate and disregard any form of injustice to our people because of religious differences. We are Hausas and We are Christians and nothing can ever change that not even persecution or the pains anyone can cause us.
4. This is democracy and our leaders should understand and respect that. Our obedience to the Constitution of this country is not out of fear but out of Love, Our decision to duly follow the rule of law is not synonymous to being coward. If taking laws into people’s hands is lawful as seen in this matter, then everybody can do same lawfully.
We therefore, call for immediate justice and fairness and strict adherence to the rule of law and court process if they are not satisfied with the verdict of the Appeal Court. The Land is and will forever be for Mallam Bawa Yaro and the entire Christian Community of Madugu Kwanga. The LGA Authority or the said Alhaji Habibu Maidoki doesn’t have the right to share or seize.

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source: Voice For The Emancipation Of The Hausa Christians In Nigeria

Re: Despite Appeal Court Ruling,christian Community Kaduna State Losing Their Land by rehipok23: 9:05am On Sep 08, 2017
the rule
Re: Despite Appeal Court Ruling,christian Community Kaduna State Losing Their Land by paBuhari(m): 9:12am On Sep 08, 2017
Hausa Christians in the north? shocked Yet the voted for Elrufai and vegetable. grin
Re: Despite Appeal Court Ruling,christian Community Kaduna State Losing Their Land by djevino(m): 9:22am On Sep 08, 2017
una never see chomching....
u all form alliance to kill Biafrans abi? chai... na now una gbege just start... grin grin

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Re: Despite Appeal Court Ruling,christian Community Kaduna State Losing Their Land by ChangetheChange: 9:39am On Sep 08, 2017


Hell Rufai can never be President of Nigeria


Hell Rufai will lose woefully in his re-election bid as Governor of Kaduna State 2019

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Re: Despite Appeal Court Ruling,christian Community Kaduna State Losing Their Land by Nobody: 10:32am On Sep 08, 2017
WHY ALL THIS WRITE UP.....ENJOY UR ONE NIGERIA....U ALL CHOOSE TO LOVE UR DARLINE GOVERNMENT DESPITE ALL EVIL WHEN EVER U HEAR BIAFRA....THEN AFTER BIAFRA THREAD U WILL CREATE ANOTHER THREAD TO COMPLAIN HOW THE GOVERNMENT IS MISTRATING U....

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