Irked by gunmen’s invasion, which resulted in several killings, the Southern Kaduna Youth leader, Nasir Jagaba, an employee of Kaduna State government resigned his appointment in protest of the unfortunate incident.

According to him, “the three Kaduna villages, near Godogodo town, Jema’a Local Government Area, LGA, of Kaduna state, that were invaded by alleged armed Fulani herdsmen.

The killing of our people informed my decision to put up my resignation letter so as to stand with my people, to raise my voice against prejudice, social denigration of Southern Kaduna”.

“Since the Fulani started their barbaric activities somewhere around 2010, they have burnt down over 5000 houses and killed over 2,000 lives (mostly women and children).

“As we were preparing for this press briefing, we received a distress call that suspected Fulani militia have attacked Nintie and Hayin Gada communities in Jama’a Local Government of Kaduna State killing scores with many sustaining various injuries,” he claimed.

However, the state’s Police spokesman, ASP Aliyu Usman, in reaction to the above claims, said that only two of the villages were partially burnt, and that the Police was fully on ground and had restored law and order in affected communities.

Meanwhile, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna has condemned the violence and call on the people of the state to stand in solidarity with one another.

The Youth Leader of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Comrade Nasiru Jagaba, who was elected last year to represent the youths of the 63 ethnic nationalities of the state, addressed a Press Conference and announced his resignation from his job with Kaduna State Government, in protest to the Fulani herdsmen’s invasion.

Jagaba who was the Public Relations Officer, PRO, of Kaduna State Due Process Office, at Government House Kaduna said he wanted a free conscience to speak for Southern Kaduna Youths, saying he was “greatly saddened by the anti-people policies of Nasiru EL-Rufai towards the people of southern Kaduna.”

The villages alleged to have been razed were Gada Biyu, where the suspected herdsmen killed six men and three women; Akwa’a, which lost two men, and Anguwan Anjo where death was not recorded.

Villagers from the affected villages who spoke to our reporters said they had become homeless, and were refugees in Godogodo, Gidan Waya, and neighbouring towns as the herdsmen finally moved into the villages at night and entirely burnt them down.

A community leader who pleaded anonymity, said: “When they came to Gada Biyu on Monday morning and killed people, they only burnt part of the village, before the police arrived. At Akwa’a they could not burnt the place, because the Police allowed the native youths to join them in chasing out the herdsmen who were over a hundred and very armed.

El-Rufai issued a statement signed by his spokesman, Mallam Samuel Aruwan, added: “The Kaduna State Government condemns the murders that were perpetrated by criminal elements that attacked our communities in Gida Biyu, Akwa’a and Angwan Anjo”.