By Rafiu Ajakaye
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – The unabated loss of multiple human lives represents a “blight” on Nigeria and its people, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday.
“Government will take strongest measures possible to punish perpetrators of these crimes. If, in the past, they got away scot-free, we shall now hold everyone to account for these latest killings,” Buhari said during a visit to northwest Kaduna state, where a recent ethno-religious violence claimed at least 55 lives, including a tribal chief.
“Chaos and anarchy tend to worsen and exacerbate whatever issues are agitating a community.
Violence shatters and divides people and stifles the prospect of any community that succumbs to its tragic logic,” he added.
He said killings are becoming too rampant in the country to the extent that the global community no longer expresses outrage at the loss of human lives.
At least 25 suspects have been arrested in connection with the violence at Kasuwan Magani, with government slapping weeks long curfew on the affected communities to avoid reprisals.
Kaduna, an eponymous state with a complicated ethno-religious demography, is often too close to violence especially between persons of different faith.
