From available records, Southern Kaduna enjoys comprehensive security deployments, including the Army, Special Forces of both the Army and the Air Force, surveillance aircraft by the Air Force and mobile police units that are on the ground on a 24-hour basis to forestall criminality and keep the peace.

But unlike other parts of the country, the problem of Southern Kaduna is more complicated than many critics are ready to acknowledge and understand.

From available security records, the problem in Southern Kaduna is an evil combination of politically-motivated banditry, revenge killings and mutual violence by criminal gangs acting on ethnic and religious grounds.

It is a situation in which one criminal group will kill a member of another criminal group out of ethnic and religious motivations which in turn leads to the eruption of revenge and counter-revenge, thereby making the job of the security personnel deployed to protect lives more difficult.

Consequently, the revenge and counter-revenge has created a circle of violence, thereby making everyone else unsafe, especially innocent people.

President Buhari reacts;

To stem this ugly but rising trend, President Muhammadu Buhari has advised the people against taking the law into their own hands which makes the job of security personnel more difficult. According to the president, instead, they should report any security breach or threat to peace to the law enforcement agencies.

The President through his senior special adviser on media Garba Shehu said; “What is required is for the local authorities to radically improve their intelligence capabilities so that security agencies will be alerted in a timely manner to enable them forestall any planned attacks.

“The Presidency in the same manner condemns the recent attacks by bandits in Igali, Birnin Gwari and Giwa local government areas of the State while urging security agencies to intensify their response,”.

It is however unclear how and when these unwarranted killings and violence will abate in southern Kaduna state.

When will the killings in southern Kaduna end?

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