Kajuru killings: Kaduna to establish judicial commission of inquiry

Kaduna State government has said it would establish  a judicial commission of inquiry  on the violent conflicts and killings in Kajuru and Kachia local government areas of the state.

It will be recalled that more than 100 lives were lost as a result of the mayhem that engulfed the local government areas over the last two weeks.

This was contained in a statement issued on Saturday by the governor’s spokesman, Samuel Aruwan.

The statement quoted the governor to have told the survivors of the attacks  at  Karamai village, while  appealing to the warring communities, on the  need to build sustainable peace in the area .

Commiserating with the victims and survivors, he appealed to them that even in their grief, they should resist any temptation to embark on vengeance because the cycle of attack and reprisal can only bring pain.

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Governor Nasir el-Rufai urged all communities to avoid resorting to self-help and report their complaints, suspicions and observations to the law enforcement and security agencies.

He condemned the attackers as godless people, who wantonly violated the injunctions of the Holy books of Christianity and Islam.

According to him, the state emergency management agency had already visited the survivors and was handling the provision of relief for the obviously traumatised survivors.

He assured the people that the government would  address the issue of the access road into the area in conjunction with the local government councils and find ways to address the absence of communications network in the area.

El-Rufai was accompanied on the visit by the heads of the security agencies in the state, including Rear Admiral D.M. Dogonyaro of the Nigerian Navy, General O.J. Akpor, the Garrison Commander 1 Division Nigerian Army, Air Commodore I.A. Sani of the Nigerian Air Force and Police Commissioner Ahmad Abdurrahman.

Also on the delegation were Priscilla Ankut and Saleh Momale of the Kaduna State Peace Commission.

The delegation inspected the wreckage left behind by the attackers in Karamai, and prayed at the mass grave where 15 of the 40 residents killed were buried.

A policeman was also killed in the attack.