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SOKAPU tackles El-Rufai over television interview

9th April 2016
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FROM NOAH EBIJE, KADUNA

SOUTHERN Kaduna Peo­ples Union (SOKAPU) yes­terday poured verbal venom on Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai over an interview he granted a national television station last Thursday.

SOKAPU quoted El-Rufai to have said in the interview that, “Here in kaduna we have a significant Muslim majority, 70%, and 30 %Christian mi­nority”.

A statement issued yesterday by SOKAPU President, Mr. Solomon Musa, also accused governor El-Rufai of playing politics with lives of the people of Southern Kaduna for claim­ing that there was no more Fulani herdsmen attack in the area, whereas the people had been attacked in recent time.

“We were both amazed and concerned at the religious ratio of 70 percent Muslims to 30 per cent Christians that he gave on national TV. This is because, based on the 2006 census, there was no question asking Nigeri­ans their religious leaning.

“So it came as a shock that Governor El-Rufai could care­lessly and recklessly give the ratio of the two major religions in the state without any em­pirical evidence. That to us is a most unfortunate statement from a governor who is expect­ed to know the risk of stoking the flames of religious intoler­ance by deliberately mislead­ingly saying Muslims make up 70 per cent of the population of Kaduna state. Clearly the governor’s assertion is not but­tressed by any known fact or data. Then, on what fact was he speaking?

“The Governor who was talking on the programme ‘Sunrise daily’ was trying hard to explain the effort his admin­istration has made in curbing the incessant killings in South­ern Kaduna. In the process, he also declared that no killing from suspected Fulani herds­men had taken place in the zone in the last six months.

“Gradually SOKAPU is getting a peep into the mind­set of the Governor through such utterances and we are now realizing that some of the policies and actions of the governor since assum­ing power have been tainted by his dangerous belief that Muslims hold the majority in the state.

“The skewed appointments that we have seen in Kaduna so far are the worst that we have seen for a long time. For the first time, the Governor, the Minister, the SSG, the Chief of Staff, the Principal Private Secretary, the Speaker of the House of Assembly and so many key aides of the governor are from his own stock. This to us is deliberate and a true manifestation of his belief that fairness and equity shouldn’t be reflected in his administration.

“We also want to tell the governor that he goofed when he said that no killing took place in southern Kaduna in the last six months. On March 24, 2016 Mr. Daniel was shot dead in his house around 7pm in Antor, Aboro District of Numana Chiefdom.

“Same March, a man was butchered in Ancha Gida, Ancha district of Ninzo chief­dom in his farm by suspected Fulani gunmen. Another man was killed last December on his farm by suspected fulani herdsmen at Yaute, Wasa dis­trict of Numana chiefdom.

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