{"id":41090,"date":"2021-04-14T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=41090"},"modified":"2021-04-14T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:43:35","slug":"katsina-southerners-express-fear-over-northern-leaders-reprisal-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/katsina-southerners-express-fear-over-northern-leaders-reprisal-threat","title":{"rendered":"Katsina: Southerners express fear over Northern Leaders\u2019 reprisal threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The threat from some northern leaders earlier this week of a likely reprisal attack on southerners residing in the North is already generating palpable fear among southerners living in Katsina State.<\/p>\n

Sources informed DAILY POST that the threat is causing many of the southerners to now live in perpetual fear of being attacked by angry northern mobs.<\/p>\n

In a statement last Thursday, the governor Matawalle Bello of Zamfara, throwing caution to the wind, warned that northerners may start seeking revenge on southerners living in the North.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo community, or region has the monopoly of violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe North has more than what it takes to respond to any kind of aggression and hatred,\u201d Governor Matawalle was quoted to have said.<\/p>\n

In the same spirit, a serving member of the current Nigerian Senate, Senator Ahmed Baba Kaita, representing Katsina North Senatorial District, in a piece he titled, \u201cThe North: When silence is no longer an option\u201d, warned of the looming danger to southerners living in the North.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat the river is calm doesn\u2019t mean there are no crocodiles beneath. That the North is taking physical and verbal insults stoically and with dignified silence doesn\u2019t mean the North is either out of reprisal options or is lacking in expertise in how to play the game the way it\u2019s crazily and irresponsibly being played,\u201d Senator Kaita said.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST reliably gathered from sources that the inciting statement from Governor Matawalle and his other co-travellers has led to countless calls from family and well-wishers who have people residing in the north to evacuate now before the situation gets out of hand.<\/p>\n

A lady who did her NYSC in the North and stayed back to work in one of the Northern States, said \u201cbefore now due to activities of bandits and terrorists my family members have been on my neck to return to the south but I blatantly refused. But with this threat coming from a whole governor, It seems I don\u2019t have a choice but to return to the south now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another southerner said, \u201cfinally, the time to leave the North for me has come. These Northerners don\u2019t joke at all when they say something, they don\u2019t just do it, they over do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He cited instances of when kidnapping became popular in the North.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kidnapping industry took a whole new dimension when they came into it full time.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody is safe anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey kidnap anything, whether rich or poor.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I won\u2019t leave the North. If they want to kill me let them kill me but I will send my family to the south as soon as school closes for holiday. Wherever man is, when it\u2019s time to die, man must die,\u201d another southerner said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeep down inside where we know as home now is the North because this is where we reside and make a living. This is where we really feel at home. I only go to the south for ceremonies when it becomes mandatory. But if they say they will kill us, we have no choice than to run for our dear lives. But we are praying seriously for the government to find a solution to these problems so that we can feel free and live anywhere as one Nigeria,\u201d another southerner admits.<\/p>\n

However, several notable voices have dismissed the threat to life and properties of southerners living in the North from the Zamfara Governor and others.<\/p>\n

Here are some of them:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not justifiable to say that because northerners are being killed in the south, we are also going to kill southerners in the north. That is not correct and ACF is against it. That is the easiest way to destroy this country if everyone takes the law into his hands and decides to take revenge. We are completely against that,\u201d Arewa Consultative Forum said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not happy with the governor\u2019s statement. Such a statement should not have come from a leader holding the sensitive position of a state governor,\u201d said the Chairman Yoruba Council of Obas and Chiefs in Northern Nigeria, Alhaji Mohammed Arigbabuwo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sure that he (Matawalle) is just trying to gain the support of APC in order to win a second term in office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am disappointed at the way the man spoke. The problem is about herdsmen having issues with the local farmers and in the course of the clash people get killed,\u201d Ohanaeze Ndigbo\u2019s Spokesman, Alex Ogbonnia said on his part.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the southerners based in the North are not taking the threat from Matawalle lightly as some of them are already looking for an alternative way out of the quagmire.<\/p>\n

One of the issues that generated this public outcry by Governor Matawalle and others may not be too far-fetched from the Sasha market crisis that occurred in the month of February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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