Kaduna State Government has deployed more security personnel to Sanga Local Government where gunmen killed nine people in Nandu village on Saturday, even as it condemned the killings.
The government also vowed not allow “criminal elements triumph over our common humanity.”
In the same vein, President Muhammadu Buhari has also condemned the killings lamenting that it has become politicised.
Buhari expressed his feelings in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday
He regretted the “politicisation of everything” including the efforts to bring offenders to justice, because their people will rise up in arms to resist their arrests and prosecution’’
The President said hate, bigotry and prejudice were “deadly poisons that have infected the human psyche on such scale that people now don’t have any moral inhibitions about taking life,” and urged those involved in the crisis to understand that mutual violence had no winners, but losers on both sides of the conflict.
He said: “I am deeply troubled by the fact that sanctity of life is now treated with such reckless disregard that people derive joy in shedding the blood of others or perceived enemies.
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“Inhumanity has replaced compassion in the hearts and minds of the perpetrators of these atrocities.
“No responsible leader would go to bed happy to see his citizens savagely killing one another on account of ethnic and religious bigotry.’’
Meanwhile, a statement signed by the Government Spokesman, Samuel Aruwan, on Saturday, said; “Security agencies have been deployed in the area, and the State Emergency Management Agency has been directed to immediately provide relief materials to the affected community.
“The security agencies have so far recovered nine corpses, including children. The attackers also burnt several houses in the village.
“The government condemns this attack on the lives and security of citizens and appeals to our communities to resist those who do not want peace.
“The governor, on behalf of the government and people of Kaduna State, commiserates with the families of the victims and prays for the repose of their souls.
“Government, security agencies, traditional and religious institutions will continue to work towards sustainable peace.
“In this moment of grief, we must come together to defeat the machinations of those who have no notion of respect for the lives of others.
“Violence has left an unacceptable toll of death and injury, loss of livelihoods, pain and fear.
“We must overcome this by respecting our common humanity, settling differences peacefully and promptly reporting threats and suspicions to the appropriate authorities. Evil will never triumph over our common humanity.”
