Chairman of the Kaduna State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Reverend Joseph John Hayab, has accused the Federal Government of insensitivity to the cries of the people of Southern Kaduna.
Years of incessant attacks in the area have led to loss of many lives and destruction of properties.
Hayab stated this during an indoor protest organised by CAN on Sunday in Kaduna.
He accused the Federal Government of shirking in its responsibility of securing the lives and property of the people in the area.
The CAN chairman said, “The presidency should stop speaking for the bandits that are out to wipe out the people of southern Kaduna.
“It is sad and embarrassing that the Department of State Service and the Nigeria Police Force made security so cheap under the current political dispensation by arresting individuals but failed to send troops to root out bandits. The Federal Government should stop being the spokesman of the bandits.
“If government can send security personnel to arrest somebody in Sokoto, Port-Harcourt. If they can send that to Southern Kaduna, peace will come to the state. We have challenges of killings, especially in Southern Kaduna. The development become bad. We have cried out but what we see happening is that government, instead of listening to our cries and attending to our cries, seems to be speaking for the killers.
“So, we said since we don’t have anybody to speak for us, we called on Christians, declaring a whole month (August) every Sunday like this, we meet and speak to ourselves and express our grievances to the entire world.
“We are all simply saying, stop the killings. We don’t want anything or favour from them. The constitution of the country said government should protect us, but we seem not to be protected.”
Hayab said peace would return to Southern Kaduna only when the government became alive to its responsibility of protecting the citizens and chasing out the killers.