Barely 48 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari warned service chiefs to raise their game and check the spate of killings in the country, at least 23 persons were killed in Zamfara, Borno and Jigawa states, while two others shot by armed robbers in Nsukka, Enugu State, weekend, are battling for their lives. Fifteen of those victims were killed by bandits in Zamfara State on Saturday; three in farmers/herders clash in Jigawa, also on Saturday; five by Boko Haram in Borno and two shot in Enugu.
Gathered that bandits invaded Dansadau community in Zamfara and killed 15 peasants and set their houses ablaze. Zamfara State police command confirmed the killing, yesterday, in Gasau, as the spokesman told the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, that investigation into the killings had begun. Northerners wasted their votes on Buhari Reacting to the killings, yesterday, Murtala Abubakar said northerners wasted their votes in electing President Muhammadu Buhari. “This is because they thought his administration could defeat Boko Haram and banditry,” he said. Abubakar, in an interview, regretted that four Adara men were also killed for putting out fire on some Fulani settlements at Doka in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State by their people who queried why would they associate with the Fulani.
He said: ‘’Three days ago, Fulani were kidnapped by bandits in Kajuru and Kachia. I wish to say it loud and that the killings in Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara are the same . “It is not religious as being advanced by some groups in the state. The primary responsibility of any government, whether autocratic, dictatorship or democracy, is the protection of lives and property. “This is a government that was democratically elected after promising us three fundamental agenda and one of it is securing Nigeria from all manner of threats or attacks, particularly from Boko Haram. “ That is why a lot of votes came from the north because in northern Nigeria, one of the biggest challenges is insecurity. But, instead of seeing improvements, what we are witnessing its escalation in the North-East or North-Central. ‘’Nowhere is safe in the North. Go to Benue, it’s not safe; go to Sokoto, Yobe, Borno, Taraba and everywhere else in the north, you see huge number of Nigerians displaced in their own country and this is a tormenting and traumatising experience for all of them. He noted that in Nigeria and particularly, in the northern region, not a single place was safe, saying: “Anybody can become a victim now. If this is so, it is our responsibility to rise and call the attention of the government to this and even make demands. This is the least we can expect — that government should protect us. It is our right.
“We didn’t beg them to govern us. We did them a favour by voting them into office; we gave them our mandate and it is now time for them to protect us. So, if they are not protecting us, we are ready to challenge them to do what they promised to do for us. “That is why we called for the immediate sacking of the service chiefs — because you can see that the government responded to our statement by sending the National Security Adviser to Katsina and Sokoto.
