Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai visited communities which were attacked in Kajuru Local Government, to assess the situation.

The Fulani community in parts of Kajuru Local Government Area, Kaduna State, have abandoned the area after an attack on Feb. 11, which left 66 of them, mostly women and children dead.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that what remained of the Rugar Fulani community were burnt houses, animals, motorcycles, kitchen utensils, as well as were bodies of women and children buried in a ditch.

Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i, accompanied by General Officer Commanding 1 Division Nigerian Army, the Police Commissioner and journalists who visited the villages on Saturday, found the entire area deserted with no humans in sight.

Speaking on the attack, the GOC, Major- Gen Faruk Yahaya said troops deployed to the area after the attack, assisted by some villagers, discovered 37 bodies of women and children buried in a ditch and the settlements burnt.

“We were informed that the women were lured by the miscreants to the stream, and on getting there, they were slaughtered.

“The figure of deaths recorded by us is 66, but in collaboration with sister agencies, we will ensure peace is restored and people return to their settlements”.

On his part, the Commissioner of Police, Ahmad AbdurRahman explained that though the police had mopped up the area, the residents still fled their settlements in fear of more attack.

He confirmed the arrest of seven suspects in connection with the attack, adding that they would be charged to court on Monday.

The police chief said investigation was continuing, adding that it was largely to identify the miscreants and isolate them from the good people within the communities so as to restore lasting peace.

Also speaking, the governor lamented over the politicisation of the situation by being in denial of the real issues at stake.

“Some leaders are living in denial. They are saying only 11 were killed and the security have said 66 were killed while the community said over a hundred were killed and missing”, El-Rufa’i noted.

He advised the people to be vigilant, as those politicizing the issue have disregarded those that died simply because they were not from their tribes.

“All lives are sacred and equal, hence we must collectively bring an end to this menace,” he said.

(NAN)

Graphics indeed.

Who does this man think is deceiving so after Prof Chidi Odinkalu, accused You of cooking up the story of the 66 people killed last night in Kajuru L.G.A of Kaduna on channels tv today.
you went looking for your family people in the bush...

Propagandists.

where d graphics

They slaughtered them at the stream they said....we all know the particular tribe that slaughters people like goats. Yeye governor

RIP

Change the change! We are Overwhelmingly
ATIKULATED !Those who are packaging buhari for Nigerians don't mean well for this country he is not qualified to be Nigeria's President, he should instead be appointed EFCC chairman to fight corruption better since that's the only thing he know how to do best...PERIOD!!!!

Hmmm

Video interview from the location of #Kajuru66
Translation...

For those who don’t understand Hausa, here’s the translation;

Men, women and children, from 1 year olds to old people like me and even older people were killed, we counted 32 inside one hole.

Someone from the press crew asked the old man; how many bodies have you counted in total...
He said 132 bodies
He said they were led into the bush, butchered and cut into pieces. #Kajuru66

I am normally careful with short people before now but El Rufai has taught me to be extra careful with them.

Short devil.

BTW, Atiku for the win on 23rd February 2019.
I will do a mini ceremony here in PH after the announcement of a new president elect.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1086204741581540&id=744766039058747

Link to the video

So sad an unfortunate killings, but the media immediately stop circulating the news on discovering that those killed innocently were Fulani

AlhajiYoung AKA OfficialPDPNGr AKA tetehjewel AKA butterflyleo... You are an unrepetant liar.. show us el Rufai standing by the grave side ... Every one knows it was Fulanis that attacked Kajuru people !!!

Some of the victims were burnt

Is this part of the change the people of Kaduna were promised

Wow. Nigeria should be divided into 666 countries if that’ll bring peace. Too much wickedness in the land.

Why this killings, why ? why?,why are thou heartless,blood everywhere, blood everyday..... Peoples wives,children, parents.... I am so sad,see the man in the pictures shedding tears,whatever makes a man cry is insurmountable..... God help Nigerians

Elrufai is sowing seed of discord between Christians and Muslims in Kaduna State with his one sided story. He won't tell you the victims from the other side of the divide. Ask him to tell you what led to the crisis and when it happened. He is more dangerous when you hear him preaching peace (with his tongue in cheeks) A congenital ethnic/religious bigot kawai.
Southern Kaduna Peoples Union



Press Release

El-Rufai’s dastardly plot to incite violence over ‘Kajuru Killings’



The attention of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has been drawn to a report credited to Governor Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai over alleged killings of 66 Fulani in Kajuru Local Government Area. We are at a loss as to the real motive behind the governor’s disclosure, made public less than 24 hours before the commencement of national polls that were postponed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). We are of the view that el-Rufai’s comments over the Kajuru killings was deliberately orchestrated to inflame ethnic and religious sentiments to produce yet another cycle of bloodshed.



SOKAPU has reached out to the various community leaders in Kajuru, including officials of the Adara Nation to ascertain what actually happened. On Sunday, February 10, 2019, the Adara natives residing in Ungwar Barde in Kufana District of Kajuru Local Government Area came under attack by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen. The attack lasted from 10pm of Sunday to 4am of Monday February 11, 2019. By the time the merchants of deaths and destructions were through with their mission, no fewer than 11 lives, including a pregnant woman, were lost. Scores of victims of the attack on Ungwar Barde sustained injuries, with some of them presently receiving treatment at some health facilities in the state capital. We have been informed that the attackers, seven of them in number, were arrested by a team of policemen. Sadly, not a statement was issued by el-Rufai over that gruesome attack on Ungwan Barde.



Following the Sunday attack on Ungwan Barde, residents of Ungwan Busa and Doruwa located in Kajuru LGA deserted their villages for safety. Presently, the District Head of Kufana and four of his village heads, on the directive the governor, have been summoned to Kaduna and ordered to produce persons behind ‘reprisal attacks’. However, the monarchs have told their interrogators that they are unaware of any ‘reprisal attacks’ and, therefore, unable to identify persons behind such attacks. Apart from the 11 corpses of Adara natives that were killed during the Sunday attack, the community leaders have denied knowledge of any attack.



Arising from the above, SOKAPU is shocked at the deliberate falsehood by el-Rufai who found it convenient not to inform the world of an earlier attack that claimed the lives of 11 Adara natives. SOKAPU is convinced that Governor el-Rufai is on an irrevocable journey of inflaming ethnic conflagration that has always been in line with his deliberate chronicle of profiling Southern Kaduna people as favourably disposed to violence.



We wish to inform Nigerians and the world that it has always been in the character of the governor to promote violence through spreading hate speech for the advancement of his waning political survival. If the governor, who was aware that Adara natives were killed on Sunday, neglected to come public, then Nigerians and the world are well placed to understand the nebulous and evil motives of el-Rufai who once shocked Nigerians on national television that he had paid whopping sums of money to foreign herdsmen involved in attacking communities in Southern Kaduna.



SOKAPU is calling on the Inspector General of Police and the Director of Department of State Service (DSS) to carry out an independent investigation and tell the world the truth of what actually happened in Kajuru. We are startled that it was the governor and not the police that announced the alleged killings in Kajuru. Let Nigerians and the world know that, should there be any breakdown of law and order in Kaduna state, Governor el-Rufai should be held responsible.



We wish to appeal to Kaduna state people to remain calm and not react to any form of provocation, including the current attempt to incite ethnic and religious brushfire. We call on our people, comprising diverse ethnic members of various religious persuasions, to be steadfast in our collective resolve to stand together and not allow ourselves to be divided by this divisive governor. We call on men and women of good conscience to condemn el-Rufai’s dastardly antics as he attempts to goad our state down the slippery slope of yet another round of unprecedented crisis.



Sign:

Yakubu Kuzamani

National PRO

SalamRushdie:
AlhajiYoung AKA OfficialPDPNGr AKA tetehjewel AKA butterflyleo... You are an unrepetant liar.. show us el Rufai standing by the grave side ... Every one knows it was Fulanis that attacked Kajuru people !!!

A bigot's mind is so overheated with hate and irrationality that the fog of stupidity won't let him/her see the path of reason. Stupid heads churn out stupid thoughts, which in turn, are hailed by brainless buffoons! The worst intellectual and mental incapacity is the inability to recognise your own density. I wont extend courtesy to boors, it is like a caviar to the general.

Even after killing bad guys, one hardly sleeps, I wonder the world these killers of the innocent come from.
Nigeria will one day pay for all these atrocities and the waste of innocent souls.

kingkakaone:
I am normally careful with short people before now but El Rufai has taught me to be extra careful with them.

Short devil.

BTW, Atiku for the win on 23rd February 2019.
I will do a mini ceremony here in PH after the announcement of a new president elect.

Guy,what is the meaning of all these? Was your account hacked or were you pretending all along? I thought you were objective all along but just like barcanista you are unravelling.you said you have decided to vote atiku,there's no problem,its your right.but joining in this bandwagon of spreading hate and falsehood or driven by hate to lie like most bigots here.i urge you to reconsider your stance.vote atiku on 23 as you planned but that shouldn't push you from your objevtivity...