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Journalists that have attempted to report atrocities that have been going on in Kaduna have been arrested and thrown into detention – SOKAPU
President of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, Comrade Jonathan Asake has raised an alarm of “unusual happenings” in Kaduna state.
Talking on the 2021 human rights lecture organised by the Human Rights Writers Affiliation of Nigeria, HURIWA, with the theme: “Nigerian Faculty Kids; Insecurity and Human Rights”, held in Abuja, Asake who gave a timeline of some alleged assaults within the state claimed that insecurity within the state has stored youngsters out of faculty.
Alleging that very same individuals are being paraded on the media over a specific crime over and over, the SOKAPU President additionally claimed that “journalists who’ve tried to report atrocities which were happening in Kaduna have been arrested and thrown into detention.”
He stated;
“In keeping with the subject, our youngsters, significantly college youngsters, and what insecurity has brought on of their rights,” he started.
“I’ll make no try to speak about final 12 months or the 12 months earlier than or try to exit of Kaduna State.
“I’ll solely say what is going on in Kaduna State and this 12 months alone. And it is possible for you to to place them up collectively.
“On the thirtieth of January this 12 months, kidnappers went into a faculty simply very near Kaduna referred to as Good Shepherd Seminary and kidnapped 4 seminarians there.
“Certainly one of them was killed as a result of the abductors wished to indicate that if ransom is just not paid, they’re very critical, they’ll kill the remaining. The lifeless physique was stored on the roadside. Ransom was paid and the others had been freed.
“On the eleventh of March this identical 12 months, kidnappers went to the varsity of forestry the place 39 college students had been kidnapped and on the twentieth of April that the scholars of Greenfield College had been kidnapped.
“On July 5, they went to a city referred to as Danutshi and kidnapped 126 Bethel Baptist College students and it’s been over two months now. They’ve launched a lot of them. They’re releasing them in batches. The primary fee was N100m paid by the mother and father completely deserted by the federal government.
“They’ve 11 of them two months after. Now in case you assume this image is a really gorry one, that is only a tip of the iceberg. That is simply those you’ve heard being reported of the atrocious actions of what we name bandits and kidnappers in Kaduna State.
“However each day, communities are being chased out and chased into neighbouring communities and for some it has lasted for over 5 years with all the kids being out of colleges.
“Most of those communities are being chased into IDPs camps, no colleges, no services, no meals and picture youngsters which were out of faculty for 5 years working. And that is the story. Farmers have additionally been chased out.
“Farming communities have left their colleges and colleges have been shut down for a really very long time in Kaduna State. We don’t get to listen to this within the media. Those we hear are when schoolchildren are kidnapped .
“And oftentimes these individuals are arrested, paraded and interrogated and that’s the tip. A few of them the’re paraded and also you see the video going viral within the media social media and after that you simply see the identical individual being paraded once more. So one thing unusual is going on.
“The rights of youngsters are being violated. It Is insensitive on the a part of a few of our leaders the place we all know that individuals have been displaced and there’s no services and nothing is completed.
“Journalists which have tried to report the atrocities which were happening have been arrested and thrown into detention. That’s why I stated that is only a tip of the iceberg.”
