Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, has said his life and family have been exposed to immediate danger following a report by a Kaduna journalist, accusing the Commissioner of being part of the atrocities being committed by terror herdsmen in the Southern part of the State.
Aruwan who described the report as 'false, defamatory, injurious, and incitement of the public against him', said the happenings in Southern Kaduna predated his time as a Commissioner, adding that it's been going on for over 40 years, and cost thousands of lives.
He said using recent attacks to emotionally mobilize citizens against him through false accusations, is unacceptable and a gross misrepresentation of the issue at stake.
He said, “On 29th October 2021, my attention was drawn to an online publication authored by one Luka Binniyat. In this publication, Mr. Binniyat quoted Senator Danjuma Laah of the Southern Kaduna Senatorial District, as stating that I am being used to cover up a genocide against Christians in Southern Kaduna.”
He said as a passionate journalist on leave of absence in public service, “I am acutely aware of the burden of professional responsibility which must accompany accurate reportage for the consumption of the public.”
Fearing that the publications has exposed his life and the lives of his family to grave and immediate danger, Aruwan further added that he has reported the matter to security agencies
He added that he has requested a thorough investigation by security agencies into the publication by Mr Binniyat.
“I have alerted the national leadership of Nigeria Union of Journalists, as well as the Union’s Kaduna State Council as a mark of respect,” he said.
President of Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU), Jonathan Asake, in a recent statement, accused the country's leadership of conspiring with the enemies to wipe our southern Kaduna people, as is evident in government’s failure to take meaningful action against the ongoing carnage in the region.
He said, “There have been series of attacks in Kaduna State; series of criminalities where a whole community is wiped out, like in Zangon Kataf alone where attacks took place within days, over 100 people were killed, and in Chukun Local Government Area, virtually 80 per cent of the community has been displaced, and many killed. But you will never hear anything from that presidency.
“Whenever they want to talk, they will say this is the reason it is happening. When Zangon Kataf came under heavy attacks, Garba Shehu came up in the media and said it was a reprisal. When somebody talks like that from that highly placed position, that means he knows what is going on; he knows who has been offended and the other person is coming to revenge.
“When that person is coming to revenge, he has taken the law into his hands. If there is rule of law, do we have leaders that are responsive and accountable to the people? Of course, if you are responsible, you ought not to allow a reprisal to take place, because we have the military, the police and the intelligence agencies who can nip that in the bud.
"Do you call it a reprisal, where a whole community was wiped out; their houses burnt, their crops destroyed and they are displaced from their ancestral land? And you called that a reprisal without going there to see what has happened. That is the kind of people we have in the presidency.”