From Sabo Douglas Finestdj, Kaduna
Yesterday Saturday 26th July was a sad day the entire youths of the Southern Kaduna Patriots. A sub group of the great Kaduna Youth Forum. As we matched to Sanga Local Government with a lot of relief materials donated by the poor among us to dig into the hidden story of the southern Kaduna genocides.
One of the villages attacked is kobin village which is closer to the Nigerian police divisional headquarters than the sanga local government secretariat. In Kobin we were exposed to the victims who were overwhelmingly traumatized as a result of the attacks. We conducted interviews with the victims and the community and our discoveries are surprising.
We saw a six years old girl who suffered bullet wounds, machetes cuts but still got lucky to survive with less medical attention. Another face of miracle is a man who got shots with several bullets but yet survived with a lot of bullet wounds.
Among those killed is an Igbo man who came to Kobin, established his shop, and since then became a brother and a friend to the poor people of Kobin. The irony is, if they were told that someday somehow, he would be buried alongside 38 others in a single mass grave they would deny but today is a sad reality. On that fateful day, he was in his shop as usual doing his normal business when the gun men appeared from the bushes and shot at everything on sight including this innocent Igboman.
We also gathered numerical data and names of those accused by the victims as those who masterminded the killings. In fact we have phone numbers whom might be made available to the Ndigbo community when the time is right.
The victims also give an account of their attacked and alleged that the attackers came in full army uniforms and start shooting them indiscriminately. They also said that most of the attackers were people that were born and brought up in their farms and can clearly identity most of them because they have been living and relating peacefully with each other. Ask if there was any misunderstanding between the villagers and the alleged fulanis attackers, a reverend who lost his son and the son wife say here is no any form of misunderstanding between the dual, as they have been living in peace and harmony until they were attacks for no just cause. They say the fulanis migrated from the villagers farms a day before the attacks on the communities.
The victims called on Kaduna state government and the federal government to please send in security personnel to safe guard their community because most of their people are running away because of lack of security in the communities and when being asked if efforts to there were security posted there in time past, they said for the first time some of them saw real soldiers was when the soldier men escorted a politician to see the mass graves and since after the politician left, that was the last time they saw a man in uniform.
