By AbdulRaheem Aodu Kaduna
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the recent clash in Adara, Kajuru local government area of Kaduna state, which claimed over 54 lives, while appealing to people of the area to stop reprisal attacks and embrace peace. Governor Nasir Ahmad elRufai, who just returned from London, where he visited the ailing President along with some of his APC colleagues, said the President was disturbed with the recent clash between Fulani and Adara people of the area. He, however, gave the assurance that perpetrators of the attacks, who, according to him, have already been identifi ed by the security, would be made to face the full wrath of the law.
It would be recalled that Miyyeti Allah said that 54 of their people were killed, while police confi rmed that 32 persons were killed in reprisal and counter-reprisal attacks that followed assault on a young elder and subsequent killing of his father by some youths. Governor el-Rufai who visited Kajuru community yesterday in company of Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd), told the warring parties to forgive themselves and allow the government to take charge of their security. He said: “On Sunday, I was with President Muhammadu Buhari in London, where we went to visit him.
Th e President told me that he was sad when he read in the news that there were clashes in Kajuru. “So, the President has asked me to commiserate with you over the lives lost and plead with you to forgive one another. But, I can assure you that, those behind the incidents will be brought to book. Th e Police Commissioner has told me that, they have identifi ed the perpetrators and we will ensure that they adequately punished.”
Th e minister said most of the crises witnessed in Kaduna state and other parts of Nigeria were over worldly resources, which everyone will die and leave behind, hence the need to be accommodative and live together in peace. Representatives of the Fulani and Adara communities, who had earlier addressed the gathering, tasked the government to beef up security in the area and punish perpetrators of the previous attacks to serve as deterrent to others and discourage people from taking laws into their own hands
