{"id":51169,"date":"2021-10-03T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kaduna-killings-strange-things-are-happening-sokapu-makes-disturbing-revelations"},"modified":"2021-10-03T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T15:22:10","slug":"kaduna-killings-strange-things-are-happening-sokapu-makes-disturbing-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-killings-strange-things-are-happening-sokapu-makes-disturbing-revelations","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna killings: \u2018Strange things are happening\u2019 \u2013 SOKAPU makes disturbing revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, Comrade Jonathan Asake has given an eyewitness rundown of the activities of bandits and kidnappers in Kaduna State in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Asake described the security situation in the State as strange and pointed to the alleged insensitivity of leaders to the plight of most communities.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jonathan, children in some communities have been out of schools for the past five years due to the atrocious activities of terrorists, while mainly communities have been chased out of their original communities by armed terrorists and most of these attacks and displacements go unreported in the media.<\/p>\n<p>Comrade Asake spoke at the 2021 human rights lecture organised by the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, with the theme: \u201cNigerian School Children; Insecurity and Human Rights\u201d, held in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn line with the topic, our children, particularly school children, and what insecurity has caused in their rights,\u201d he began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll make no attempt to talk about last year or the year before or attempt to go out of Kaduna State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll only say what is happening in Kaduna State and this year alone. And you will be able to put them up together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the 30th of January this year, kidnappers went into a school just very close to Kaduna called Good Shepherd Seminary and kidnapped 4 seminarians there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of them was killed because the kidnappers wanted to show that if ransom is not paid, they\u2019re very serious, they\u2019ll kill the rest. The dead body was kept on the roadside. Ransom was paid and the others were freed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the 11th of March this same year, kidnappers went to the school of forestry where 39 students were kidnapped and on the 20th of April that the students of Greenfield University were kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn July 5, they went to a town called Danutshi and kidnapped 126 Bethel Baptist Students and it\u2019s been over two months now. They\u2019ve released many of them. They\u2019re releasing them in batches. The first payment was N100m paid by the parents totally abandoned by the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have 11 of them two months after. Now if you think this picture is a very gorry one, this is just a tip of the iceberg. This is just the ones you\u2019ve heard being reported of the atrocious activities of what we call bandits and kidnappers in Kaduna State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut on a daily basis, communities are being chased out and chased into neighbouring communities and for some it has lasted for over five years with all the children being out of schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of these communities are being chased into IDPs camps, no schools, no facilities, no food and imagine children that have been out of school for five years running. And this is the story. Farmers have also been chased out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarming communities have left their schools and schools have been shut down for a very long time in Kaduna State. We don\u2019t get to hear this in the media. The ones we hear are when schoolchildren are kidnapped .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd oftentimes these people are arrested, paraded and interrogated and that\u2019s the end. Some of them the\u2019re paraded and you see the video going viral in the media social media and after that you see the same person being paraded again. So something strange is happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rights of children are being violated. It Is insensitive on the part of some of our leaders where we know that people have been displaced and there is no facilities and nothing is done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJournalists that have attempted to report the atrocities that have been going on have been arrested and thrown into detention. That\u2019s why I said this is just a tip of the iceberg.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, Comrade Jonathan Asake has given an eyewitness rundown of the activities of bandits and kidnappers in Kaduna State in 2021. Asake described the security situation in the State as strange and pointed to the alleged insensitivity of leaders to the plight of most communities. 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