Armed policemen and operatives of the Department of
State Services (DSS) on Thursday morning, March 9th,
raided the Kaduna residence of Senator Danjuma La'ah
In a statement made available to newsmen, the senator
representing Southern Kaduna Senatorial Zone, said his
Kaduna residence was invaded by armed policemen,
MOPOL and plainclothesmen numbering about a hundred.
"They came in trucks, buses and pick-up vans
around 5am , forced my security man at gunpoint
to open the gate. Under gunpoint and without
tendering any search warrant from any court of
law, starting destructive search on my house.
They used knives to tear open my furniture, broke
louvers of my doors, broke and tossed things
around and destroyed the delicately plastered
ceiling of my bedroom and entered the roof.
In the course of their search, they took away a
pump action gun with its official permit granted
me since 2008. My two nephews, Friday Batan
and Samson Tanko, who were in the house were
manhandled by the armed security personnel and
taken away to an unknown place. I am yet to
established contact with them.
Also my wristwatches, expensive jewelleries
belonging to my wife are carted away.
I am yet to ascertain the extent of missing
valuables in the residence. I was informed about
the incident while I was in Abuja.
I cannot also establish if something very
incriminating have not been planted in my
residence as part of the orchestrated plot to not
only rubbish my integrity but criminalise me with
the aim of prosecuting me.
This is in furtherance to the several interrogation
and psychological harassment that the SSS in
Abuja has meted out to me ever since I call
Governor Nasir el-Rufai to order this year over his
clearly biased stand against Southern Kaduna
natives in the ongoing genocide there.
It is on record that some Christian clerics from
Southern Kaduna have also been quizzed by the
SSS over their condemnation of the killings of
members of their congregation.
Some youths leaders, Journalists, and social
commentators all from Southern Kaduna have
been arrested and charged to court over
innocuous comments on the ongoing killings in
Southern Kaduna starting from last year.
I therefore wish to put it on notice, that not only
are law abiding, harmless natives of Southern
Kaduna being maimed, killed and their
communities destroyed by Fulani herdsmen -
some who Governor Nasir el-Rufai has traced
back to some African countries and paid them
sums of money - he is making it a crime for
anyone to mention the killings. Including the call
for lawful self-defence in the face of his failure to
stop the killings.
The Governor has not only made it a monopoly to
be the one making very inciting and divisive
statements over this killings, his clampdown on
vocal voices of Southern Kaduna is making it
harder for the much needed mutual confidence on
the parts of the beleaguered people of Southern
Kaduna to look upon him as a fair and trustworthy
leader.
I wish to call on the all the people of Southern
Kaduna, not to be pushed into carrying the law
into their hands no matter the provocation. We
must remain focused, hopeful and prayerful, while
keeping our eyes over our communities
watchfully.
Alabatvnews.
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