A hashtag to protest the development in the area: #SouthernKadunaGenocide, has since gone viral.
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Judging by the spate of insecurity currently pervading the country, Nigeria can be rightly said to have drifted inexorably into a complete failed state. All over the country, especially in the North, from my home state of Adamawa in the North-east, to Benue in the North Central and to Zamfara in the North West,
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, says that many world leaders are committed towards ensuring that there will never be a repeat of the type of genocide that happened in Rwanda.
Rwandans gathered on Sunday to begin a solemn commemoration of the lives of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus murdered during the Rwandan genocide, a three-month-killing spree that began 25 years ago.
It is disheartening that my friend Femi is scared to visit Kaduna and it seems we can’t guarantee Ali’s safety in Enugu; some sons of anarchy are making life uneasy for travellers on the highway while entire families are being wiped out up North, and yes!…there is the new trend: clashes between herders and host communities; all these happening for reasons best known to only the perpetrators of this evil.
Presiding Judge, Alphons Orie, read out a summary of the judgment.