Vice President Kashim Shettima made this known during a condolence visit to the Kukah family on the death of Yohanna Kukah, the Agwom Akulu of Ikulu Chiefdom, over the weekend.
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The call followed the upsurge in killings in the area, which SOKAPU said amounted to ethnic cleansing of its people.
Obi made his position on the killing known in a statement by his Media Aide, Valentine Obienyem, in Abuja on Friday.
This declaration is contained in a statement issued in Kaduna Friday by the CAN Chairman, Rev. John Hayab, who decried the recent killings and destruction of property in Kagoro, Southern Kaduna.
According to the newspaper, this was disclosed to it by the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union Public Relations Officer, Luka Binniya.
The attacks, it was gathered happened at about 3 am on Sunday.
The interfaith dialogue was organised by Community of Sant’Egidio and Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna and Kafanchan.
Government made the appeal in a statement on the security situation, signed by the State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Atyap Chiefdom is one of worst hit by the recent crisis in Southern Kaduna.
The killings occurred on September 8 and 9, 2020, thereby violating the peace pact of August 22, 2020.
The bandits were said to have also ransacked the entire village, injuring over four other persons
MACBAN said this in a communique at the end of a peace summit in Kafanchan on Sunday.
Osinbajo communicated this on Thursday during a Special Conversation featuring him and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the ongoing Nigeria Bar Association Virtual 2020 Annual General Conference
SOKAPU made the allegation in a statement on Wednesday
The Diocese gave the condemnation in a communiqué jointly issued by the Bishop of the Diocese, Rev. Innocent Ordu, and its Chancellor, Nlerum Amadi, at the end of the 2020 Synod in Port Harcourt.
The Air Officer Commanding, Air Training Command, Kaduna, Air Vice Marshal Musa Mukhtar, said in Kaduna that the deployment was in response to the directive of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, for NAF to support the ongoing operation.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, said this at the updates briefing on military operations across the country on Thursday in Abuja.
These killings, the group said, are most worrisome given a strictly enforced 24-hour curfew on Southern Kaduna, where the attacks took place.
Nasiru Jagaba, the National Youth Leader, Middle Belt Forum, who led the protest along NNPC Junction, Kachia Road, Kaduna, alleged a conspiracy in the ongoing killings.
ACF’s National Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Yawe, made the call in a statement in Kaduna.