Govt Sues For Calm • ‘My Husband Was Burnt To Ashes By Our Assailants’

In the last few weeks, thousands of villagers in Zangon Kataf and Kauru local councils, in Southern Kaduna attacked by militias have fled the area to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps and other places where they can find refuge.

Several villagers trooped to Kagoro, Kafanchan, neighbouring Jos in Plateau State, Kujama and Kaduna metropolis to avoid further attacks by the armed men.

The spokesman of the Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU), Luka Binniyat, while reacting to the exodus of the people, yesterday, lamented the attitude of the state government towards the humanitarian crises perpetrated by armed Fulani herdsmen.

According to him: “Shockingly, the humanitarian crises generated by this crime against humanity seems in the least to have bothered Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State.

“Since the siege on Atyap land started last year, with that of Chawai that has been dragging on for over six years now, Governor el-Rufai has never visited any of the scenes of the violence and has never offered any form of assistance to the victims,” he said.

Binniyat noted that, “in the last one week, atrocities have been committed in two local government areas; that is Kauru and Zangon Kataf, where 32 people were killed and four villages sacked. Unfortunately, the government has not shown any concern to victims of the attacks by the herdsmen.”

Narrating her ordeal, one of the victims, 45-year-old Mbiya Christiana Augustine, from Matyei Village in Atyap Chiefdom, said that she was sleeping at night when barking of restless dogs woke her up as armed herdsmen invaded the village.

Speaking with The Guardian at the ECWA Widows Training School, Samaru Kataf, Zangon Kataf Local Council, which was converted into an IDP camp in July, Madam Augustine said: “My husband was shouting outside that we should all come out and run. We heeded the instruction without delay. We ran into the dark through fields of growing corn. We ran as far as we could and hid in the bush. From there we could see the fire and the smoke coming from our village as houses were being burnt.”

Continuing, she said: “In the morning, we returned home and there were many other women and children coming from the bush as we walked with fear of the unknown to our village. As we got near, I could hear the voices of wailing women from Matyei, meaning that terrible things must have happened.”

As she walked on with her children, she discovered that every compound they passed by had been burnt completely. In trepidation, they hurried to their home to find it completely burnt. A small crowd had gathered.

“I asked about my husband. No one answered me. A woman came and held me and started crying. Then I heard one of my children screaming and calling the name of her father. She rushed into his room and I followed her in fear of the worst that could have happen to him,” she said in tears,

“He was nothing but a pile of ashes,” she said. “They shot him after he exhausted his bullets. Then they brought him inside and burnt him with the whole compound. We only buried his ashes,” she lamented.

Her husband, Augustine Arege, 50, was one of eight casualties recorded in the Matyei and the Abuyab attacks, which took place in Atyap Chiefdom that night.

Binniyat disclosed that there is now a new pattern of attack by the militia, adding, “there are attacks on farmers in their farms, just as one happened at a village called Machudu, close to Zangon Kataf on Thursday.

“The assailants are still lurking in bushes and preying on people who are isolated. So, the violence is not over. People in their communities are now fleeing in droves for refuge in IDP camps or staying with relatives in all parts of the state and even outside Kaduna.”

Meanwhile, when The Guardian contacted the Police Spokesman in the state, ASP Mohammed Jalige on phone for his reaction on the exodus of villagers from communities in Southern Kaduna to IDP Camps, and general insecurity in the area, he said “please let me contact the DPO in the area, I will get back to you.”

However, the Kaduna State government has renewed appeals to citizens to end the recurring violence following reports from security agencies that five people were killed in another series of attacks within Zangon Kataf Local Council.

A statement by the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said following the disturbing cycle of violence, the Kaduna State government has appealed to all residents to embrace recourse to the law, and break the brutal cycle of killing and reprisal, to adequately support government’s peace-building efforts in the area.

https://guardian.ng/news/thousands-flee-zangon-kataf-kauru-as-herdsmen-sustain-massacres/

Zangon kataf...... Maybe, maybe is a payback time

These people will still vote for APC ,the elders of the community will dine and dance with their oppressors .
The soldiers from the community,will always follow the command of their oppressors and shoot southerners resisting fulani herdsmen .while online educated fools of the community ,support the evil ,when its favouring them.

If these people can't organise themselves and revolt against oppressors ,I can't see why southerners should worry about them.

Southern Kaduna had suffered so much pains and anguished under apc led government.

El Rufai should stop this senseless killings

Hmmmm

Wahala......

So na like this herdsmen take take over from. Boko haram without INEC conducting any election for them . Like play like play.....

A government that does not care about her citizens. We are all on our own.

Midget Hell Rufai will never see anything wrong in what the fulani herds men are doing, because they are his errand boys.

They are "my first cousins" and so are untouchable. They have immunity from crimes committed.
Are these Fulanibandit not supposed to be proscribed? Federal and State governments in those affected States are accomplices of the deaths. God will require from them each blood shared by these killer herdsmen.

Buhari will be pleased with this news

Genocide in Kaduna

Meanwhile bashir is busy saying rubbish on Twitter

Buhari and El-Rufai sees the marauding herdsmen as non-issue.

O Lord... In you we put our souls.. save us!

Southern Kaduna Christians are been persecuted by the government of the day because Bubu and Elrufai leaves in Kaduna and they hate Christian.

It seems like all the media are silence on the ethnic cleansing going on in The middle belt,
This is so bad, towns and communities are wiped out and no outrage.

What is all this? Why? Yet that so called broadcaster Yanju Adegbite was saying nothing bad is happening in Nigeria that's not happening in other countries. And these are human beings massacred day after day, week after week.
Can't blame him, he's a government man.

Buhari, the gift that keeps giving

Only one thing interests him.

The last day will be terrible

This one dey there...Na Igboho and Kanu this idiots concentrate on.

If I become president, I swear to God some people will take me to the ICC after my tenure for genocide...because I will so frown at this that upon their arrests, their cases won't get to the courts before the needful is done. I hate what disgusts me.

Tell me how other tribes will ever like or even want to cohabit with these bloodsucking demons again? I even detest their elite more for their sidon look attitude.

The govt is behind these killings

In fact this is the guy behind it

Sad

The locals can dare to own firearms.

They will be arrested and locked away with heavy charges.

Self defense will assist our security personnels. Although this can be problem in the future but it wil be a lesser evil than this genocide

“Shockingly, the humanitarian crises generated by this crime against humanity seems in the least to have bothered Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State.

“Since the siege on Atyap land started last year, with that of Chawai that has been dragging on for over six years now, Governor el-Rufai has never visited any of the scenes of the violence and has never offered any form of assistance to the victims,” he said.

Binniyat noted that, “in the last one week, atrocities have been committed in two local government areas; that is Kauru and Zangon Kataf, where 32 people were killed and four villages sacked. Unfortunately, the government has not shown any concern to victims of the attacks by the herdsmen.”

Fulani herdsmen are land grabbers, trying to displace Christian's from their ancestral home with the support and encouragement of the kaduna state government!
It's high time youths and able bodied men form vigilante and mount surveillance.
I trust Jos youths those ones treat Fulani jihadist in the language they understand.
Guess what language terrorists understand? Violence, blood for blood

How long is this ethnic cleansing going to last. Mr President please use all apparatus at your disposal to tackle this menace. If this was going on in Eastern Nigeria, Mr President would have shown up with full force. It appears the presidency is in support of this insurgency. Otherwise, how come there are no arrests? No trials? Something is wrong somewhere

Where is the useless Femi Adeshina?

Our darling daddy is working.

Nigeria is now free of terrorism and the economy is topnotch, says a zombie.

Nigeria life be like bobrisky own, we don't even know maybe nah she or he!

We are writing to more famine, bad economy, rural-urban migration etc

This corntree don Round-up

Reno Omokirikiri said Christians did same several decades ago, therefore Boko Haram = Bandits = Fulani herdsmen too should continue. There will never be peace on Earth.

Whatever FFK and Ishaq Akintola are taking, Reno is taking double.

Hmm