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CEDRA Report Identifies ‘Genocide’ In Troubled Southern Kaduna

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The Northern Nigeria-based rights group, Center for Development and Rights Advocacy (CEDRA), says there is a systematic genocide against the people of Southern Kaduna in Kaduna State.

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And towards avoiding a repeat of the tragic events in Rwanda in 1994, it has called on for the intervention of the United Nations, African Union, and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

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The claims are contained in an interim report prepared after a visit of CEDRA volunteers to Kaura Local Government yesterday on an assessment mission following a weekend of arson and murder.  Anchored by CEDRA spokesman, Dr. John Danfulani, the report is available on the group’s website at: www.centerfordevelopmentandrightsadvocacy.org.

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“From the fore going, it is clear that Federal Government, security agencies and Kaduna State Government are playing politics with the security situation at hand, thereby the laxity and none cogent security measures in the areas, all these are pointers that, there are forces hell bent in committing genocide against the people, and have “unknown backers” arming them with sophisticated weapons to carry out their evil acts with impunity without any counter actions by security agencies,” it said.

In view of the situation, CEDRA is demanding, among others, that:

• The government take steps to stop the coordinated influx of herdsmen into Southern Kaduna from neighbouring states;

• The Nigeria military high command should set up a Special Military Squad to supervise and put to an end the ongoing genocide in Southern Kaduna.

• The Federal Government should create a Homeland Office, with those Special Military Squads operating in collaboration with intelligence agencies carrying out covert and overt operations. In line with the need for an aerial surveillance, the Federal Government and Nigeria’s military if REALLY serious should provide helicopters for containing the lingering killings, they should deployed them to all the killing fields.

• The Kaduna State Government must urgently prepare a robust resettlement action plan for those displaced and in refugee camps, and such people, when resettled, should be fully compensated to enable them start a new life and cater for their families.

CEDRA also called on the Federal Government to set up a special investigation committee to ascertain those behind the violence, and bring them to book.

“Any further delay and continued killings in Southern Kaduna will confirm the notion of gradual genocide,” the statement said.

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