SOKAPU National Youth President has been invited by The SSS
The invitation is scheduled for 9 am tomorrow 16 August 2016.
Jagaba resigned his appointment with The Kaduna State government few weeks ago with a Press statement which contained his reasons for the resignation.
Read his press statement below...
Press Statement being delivered on Wednesday 3rd
August, 2016
by THE NATIONAL YOUYH LEADER OF SOUTHERN
KADUNA PEOPLE UNION (SOKAPU) COMRADE NASIRU
JAGABA RESIGNS HIS APPOINTMENT WITH KADUNA
STATE GOVERNMENT.
Fellow southern kaduna youth, ladies and gentlemen of
the Press, I just tendered my resignation letter with the
Kaduna state government because my conscience leave
me with no other choice. I have sensed a conspiracy by
the government of the day to cage me, put a gag on my
mouth and to make me docile and voiceless. This has
informed my decision to put up my resignation letter so
as to stand with my people, to raise my voice against
prejudice, social denigration and denial. As such, and I
repeat, I have resigned my appointment as I move to
break the silence and to speak from the burnings of my
own heart, as I call for radical departures from the
destruction of southern kaduna.
At a time like this when Southern Kaduna people are
faced with so many subjugations, silence is betrayal.
The mission to which the southern kaduna youth called
me is a most difficult one even when pressed by the
demands to break the silence, especially now that we
have found ourselves in the hands of an evil
organisation that act without conscience, morals,
human dignity and respect for rule of law or fear of
God. I am greatly saddened by the anti- people policies
of Nasiru EL-Rufai towards the good people of southern
Kaduna . EL-Rufai woke up every day to manufacture
very harmful and demonic policies to cripple our will
and spirit. Recently, El-Rufai announced his intention to
build Grazing Reserves across communities in Southern
Kaduna. By so doing, he wants to cohabit ate us with
the-same strange and volatile Fulani that have been
attacking defenceless communities in Southern Kaduna.
Since the Fulani started their barbaric activities
somewhere around 2010, they have burnt down over
500 houses and killed over 2,000 lives (mostly women
and children). As we were preparing for this press
briefing, we received a distress call that suspected
Fulani militia have attacked Nintie and Hayin Gada
communities in Jama’a Local Government of Kaduna
State killing scores with many sustaining various
injuries. In addition, El-Rufai’s land reclamation
Programme in the state has failed to see governance as
a continuous enterprise.
To buttress my point, Governor Ibrahim Yakowa of
blessed memory set up a committee and issued a
government white paper that explicitly created a
boundary between Gbagyi Villa and Kaduna Polytechnic
with a sketch plan produced and signed by the Surveyor
General of Kaduna State. But, in a cruel display of
power, El-Rufai had sworn with the Qurán to demolish
the area even when the matter was still pending in
court. This shows that the Governor has no respect for
the rule of law. And if El-Rufai has made land
reclamation a central agenda to his government, why is
he not laying claims to the National Eye Centre, Kaduna
Polytechnic’s encroached land at Tudun Wada Campus,
the flood plains at Kigo Road, National Institute for
Trypanosomiases Research and the Kachia Grazing
Reserve? The so-called Kachia Grazing Reserve which
was established by the federal government for the
purpose of reducing cattle and farmers clash has now
been converted for the building of estates and other
business interests by influential Fulani burgeoises. The
Grazing Reserve is not only dubiously converted, but
the Fulani have produced a fake gazetted document
that reads 70,000 hectares against the known 30,897
hectares proposed by the government and this has
never attracted El- Rufai’s attention but, he is losing
sleep over a previously settled matter at Gbagyi Villa.
Since his assumption to office as the Executive
Governor of Kaduna State, no any visible development
has been recorded in Southern Kaduna.
Apart from Grazing Reserves that he forcefully wants to
establish in Southern Kaduna and the planned
demolition of Gbagyi Villa, nothing meaningful has been
done to us. Recently, the Federal Government
announced its plan to build six Federal Universities
across the country and one was allocated to Kaduna
State. With all the federal higher institutions in the
northern and central parts of the state, El-Rufai never
deemed it fit to site the university in Southern kaduna
in order to attempt to address the deficits in
government’s presence, suffered over the years by the
people of the region.
Apart from that, his political appointments are skewed
against our people. No wonder, he told the whole
world in a Television interview that the population of
Christians in the state is a minute 30 percent as against
the staggering 70 percent Muslims. This is a blatant
manipulation of facts, which is a dent on the intellect of
El-Rufai because he assumed figures rather than using
empirical facts.
Finally, I am happy to see a new spirit rising among us
which we must trace its movement and pray that our
own inner being be sensitive to its guidance, for we are
deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that
seem to engulf us. We must all be aware that every step
towards the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering,
and gunuine struggle. To this, I call on the youth of
southern kaduna not to succumb to the temptation to
use violence in our struggle for freedom, but we must
relentlessly speak until the day that all their evil plots
fail while equity and justice prevails. Let us break the
silence and be dissatisfied until no inch of land in
southern kaduna is given for grazing reserve. Silence is
betrayal; let us be steadfast in our actions until Gbagyi
Villa is treated withouit bias and finally comes to stay
without threat for demolition. Let us be relentless until
the day that appointments are given not on the basis of
religious and sectional sentiments. We must break the
silence and be unyielding until the day that unequal
development base on religious and sectional differences
come to an end. Silence is betrayal, therefore, I am
urging you to break your silence and speak, your voices
is important, don’t fear their evil; remember there is
creative force in the universe, working to pull down the
gigantic mountain of evil. Let us remember that there is
a divine power capable of suppressing their stubborn
will and melting their rebellious hearts. As we break our
silence I urge us to pursue peaceful ends through
peaceful means. It is necessary we love peace and
sacrifice for it. Thank you for listening.
COMRADE NASIRU JAGABA. MI NATIONAL
COORDINATOR, SOKAPU YOUTH WING.
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