HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION OF EL-RUFAI OVER SOUTHERN KADUNA KILLINGS

President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to investigate Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, over the killings in Southern Kaduna.

Human Rights Writers Association,  (HURIWA), which made the call, said El-Rufai should be compelled to produce the killers of innocent Nigerians in Southern Kaduna since he had been able to identify them and their locations.

 Recall that back in December 2016, Governor El-Rufai admitted to identifying and compensating those causing the crisis in Southern Kaduna, saying that they were people from the neighbouring countries of Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Senegal.

HURIWA, in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said it was much concerned that what was going on in southern part of the state was an ethno religious cleansing by vicious herdsmen in a way that was sickening and repulsive to civilisation.

It said the most pragmatic way to finding a solution and stopping the mass killers before they strike again was to fish out the armed Fulani Herdsmen doing the killings by investigating El-Rufai who allegedly and reportedly admitted paying off some identified killers.

HURIWA further noted that the utterances of El-Rufai where he admitted paying off some killer herdsmen responsible for the violence and that compiling a list of people calling for self-defence in Southern Kaduna were very shocking.

The association wondered why the criminals were compensated instead of facing the law, adding that the Governor had not done anything to help the victims since he appeased the killers with money.

The group insisted that the continuous assault of the Southern Kaduna people has become highly suspicious and alarming, stressing that there was no doubt that the victims of these incessant assaults were mostly Christians of Kaduna State origin.