Angwan Rimi, Gigan Maga, Sabon Sarki, Kafanchan etc. without the intervention
of the Divisional Police Officer, his men or any other top placed person contacted.
10. Applicants’ lamented as their communities have suffered similar callous attacks
for more than five times in the past to the knowledge of the Respondents of which
the security agencies ought to be alert to avert a reoccurrence. That the Respondent
hardly responds within time until the situation gets out of hand even when they have
always had privileged information about the impending attack. That the 1st
Respondent failed to contact the Nigerian Army or any other security agency to
support them in stopping the mayhem when it had every reason to do so.
11. Applicants’ further state that no single individual or group has been brought
before any Court for trial even when arrests were made as all known suspects have
been let off the hook without being brought to justice. That in the present attack, 827
people were killed and 71 persons injured in about ten villages where these acts were
allegedly committed yet the only arrest made was in Kafanchan.
12. They further alleged that reports on the attacks and fighting within the
communities were broadcast by the local radio and television stations and other
media houses immediately the killing and destruction began which ought to have put
the Respondent on the edge to act immediately by deploying armed security agents
but failed to do so. That the Respondent set up a judicial panel into the post
Presidential Election violence of the 16th of April 2011 and the Kaduna State
Government also set up a Commission of Inquiry both of which had the mandate
among others, to look into the riot that engulfed some parts of Nigeria after the said
Presidential Election. Nevertheless, Applicants maintained that the Respondents’
failure to effectively investigate previous attacks made it a confidence booster for
the perpetrators of these acts.
13. That the Applicants who survived this pogrom are now refugees, having been
rendered homeless, their farmland ravaged, livestock stolen or killed, children made
orphans, girls raped, wives now widows and with no means of livelihood to take
care of their surviving young ones. That the internally displaced persons are living
in very pathetic, sub human and difficult conditions with difficulty obtaining basic
food, medications and sanitary items. The displaced children have lost school
sessions and that about 189 women have put to bed in an exceptionally difficult
condition. That prior to the crisis, information was had that both Christians and
Muslims of Southern Kaduna were in possession of dangerous weapons, yet, the
Respondent failed to investigate and confiscate those weapons.
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