Akwanaja bombing: Don’t reduce yourself to tribal champion, SOKAPU tells Sanusi

From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, (SOKAPU), has advised the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II to stick to the nationalist, he portrays and not reduced himself to a narrow champion of his tribesmen.
Spokesman of the Union, Luka Binniyat, stated this in a statement made available to the media in Kaduna yesterday.
Reacting to the trade of words between the deposed Emir and Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state, over the bombing of Akwanaja village, Doma Local Government Area, (LGA) of Nasarawa state against targets which Fulani leaders said were innocent herders, said because Sanusi has made Kaduna his second home since his dethronment as the Emir of Kano in March 2020, but has never made a comment on the mass killings of the people of Southern Kaduna and Hausa and law abiding Fulani in Kaduna State.
The Union noted that the Air Force authority has owned up to the bombings and defended its action. “But if indeed those killed in the bombing are innocent herders, justice must take its course and full restitution paid their families.”
The statement added that in June 2022, the Union reported with proves how killer herdsmen on over 150 motorbikes attacked some communities in Adara Chiefdom in Kajuru Local Government Area in Southern Kaduna as a low flying Air Force gun-mounted plane assisted the invaders.
“32 innocent farmers were killed in the attack and scores were kidnapped. This is just one of such attacks in which we have accused a rogue section of the military of connivance.
“As a statesman, which Sanusi has been trying his best to portray, we would have expected him to lend his weighty voice in criticizing such criminality and asking for justice, even if it is not with the zest and commitment he is putting on the Akwanaja bombing.”
The Union further expressed reservations over the plot to robe the Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom in the bombing of Akwanaja village, against targets which Fulani leaders said were innocent herders.