book wall of one David Ayuba, a member of the indigenous Community and Staff
of Diamond Bank Plc, Abuja.
5. The attention of the Security Agencies particularly the Divisional Police Officer
in charge of Zonwa in Kaduna State was drawn to all these to which he called an
emergency meeting of the community stakeholders on the 18th of April, 2011 to
discuss ways to avert an impending mayhem. However, before the meeting started,
the indigenous youths who had a premeditated plan and information about the
proposed meeting mounted illegal road blocks all over the town making it difficult
for most of the stakeholders to get to the venue for the meeting.
6. All efforts by the stakeholders to dissuade the youths from mounting the illegal
road blocks proved abortive. That while the meeting was on-going, one of the
stakeholders received a phone call after which he exclaimed: “they are killing our
people in Zaria and we are going to take revenge”. On hearing this, the meeting
ended up abruptly. That the Divisional Police Officer of Zonkwa did not make any
efforts afterwards to reinforce the security surveillance within and outside the
community nor get his men to dislodge the indigenous youths who had mounted road
blocks around the Community.
7. Consequently the youths in that vicinity set ablaze a lorry carrying farm yields
which was parked beside the Mosque whereupon the mosque was also set ablaze.
Shops suspected to be owned by Muslims in the Community were burnt down. The
attack extended to the residents of Hausa/Fulani Muslims in which people were
killed to the exclusion of women and children. Also, their houses, private and
commercial vehicles, motorcycles, livestock, places of worship and Islamic schools
were looted and burnt down.
8. That on the said 19th of April 2011, a house to house search was carried out killing
any Muslim male found therein with the corpse set ablaze. That even the 80 year old
Imam of the village was macheted. That the final phase of the genocide was carried
out in front of wives and children of the deceased. Applicants put up a list of those
allegedly identified carrying guns and other deadly weapons, persons who sustained
various degrees of injuries as well as those that were shot.
9. The Applicants’ state that all these acts continued unchecked until the early hours
of the 19th of April 2011. That the alleged acts spread to other neigbouring villages
to Zonkwa namely: Matsirga, Atlas District, Bodari village of Bajju Chiefdom,
Aduan (5) of Fantsuam Chiefdom Kamuru Ukulu, Madakiya, Mararaba Rido,
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