From Sola Ojo, Kaduna
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State Chapter, has raised the alarm that killers of Southern Kaduna people were yet to be neutralised as claimed by concerned authorities.
CAN Chairman in Kaduna, Rev John Joseph Hayab, made the declaration in a statement, yesterday, following the gruesome murder of 28 members of the Mallagum community in Kagoro area, Kaura Local Government on Sunday night.
“This massacre has further proven that the killers of the Southern Kaduna people have not yet been neutralised as claimed,” he said.
He was concerned that the brutal attack on defenceless Nigerian people may be an orchestrated plan by unscrupulous criminal elements to put fear in the minds of voters in the affected area, so they won’t come out to vote for candidates of their choice in the coming elections.
“These renewed killings may be a strategy to scare the people from exercising their rights and to further increase fear and impoverish them.
“Accordingly, CAN condemns this barbaric act in the strongest terms, but appeals for calm, calling on the government and security agencies to rise to their duty of protecting life and property.
The Federal Government and the security agencies must not let the killers escape. Those who committed this evil must be fished out, arrested and brought to justice,” he said.