Kaduna Assemblyman wants urgent end to clashes in Kaura LG

Kaduna Assemblyman wants urgent end to clashes in Kaura LG

Clashes

By Moses Kolo

Kaduna, April 2, 2020 (NAN) Mr Yusuf Mugu, (PDP-Kaura) of the Kaduna State House of Assembly has called for a radical peace approach to end lingering farmer-herders clashes in Kaura Local Government Area  of the state and its environs.

Mugu in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Thursday berated the ugly development and noted that  such clashes had claimed scores of lives and property.

“I think it is high time we employed a radical peace approach by engaging all parties and telling ourselves the truth.

“We are tired of this vicious circle, we must call a spade a spade so that posterity will not judge us wrongly.

“If we all will resort to an eye for an eye and all of us become blind, to whose advantage is it?” he worried.

The Legislator disclosed that communities including Zangang, Adu and Ashim all in Takad Chiefdom had been deserted for fear of reprisal attack following recent alleged farmer-herders clash.

“These unfortunate incidences have caused panic among the residents of the communities that already have been deserted,” he explained.

Mugu regretted that while the polity was overwhelmed with the COVID-19 pandemic, others were busy with criminality.

“It is at times like this that we need each other most, government is meant to be spending money more on building hospitals and schools rather than funding IDPs caused by clashes,” he said.

He, then, commiserated with the bereaved and urged the people to be security conscious and report any suspicious activity of persons or group of persons to the appropriate authorities. (NAN)

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Edited by Emmanuel Nwoye/Donald Ugwu