The senator representing Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, Sen. Shehu Sani, has lamented the spate of killings and other violent crimes in the North.
Sani, who is known to be vocal about insecurity in the North, decried worsening insecurity in the region in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
He described the North as “bleeding”, noting that people were dying en masse and “funerals and mourning for innocent victims has become a daily affair”.
The controversial senator slammed some members of the political elite for turning a blind eye to the killings and concentrating solely on “keeping their thrones”.
Sani said:
“The North is bleeding and people are dying in mass, funerals and mourning for innocent victims has become a daily affair; All some political elites cared about is keeping their throne and seats through sycophancy and cowardice, preserving their power and privileges and building and casting their towers of ambition on the corpses,coffins and graveyards of the people they failed.”
The senator’s comment is coming barely 24 hours after Chairman of Zamfara Council of Emirs and Emir of Anka, Alhaji Attahiru Ahmad, called on the Federal Government to compel telecom service providers to block GSM service in the state for three to six months in order to check the activities of bandits.
The emir lauded some of the measures put in place against the bandits such as cutting their food and fuel supplies and added that the action had seriously frustrated the operations of the bandits.
“This should be followed by blocking the telephone service of the whole state by all the service providers because it is only when kidnappers can contact victims’ relations that they can demand for ransom.
“If GSM network for the whole state is blocked for between three and six months, l can assure you that it will go a long way because even informers can no longer disclose the movement of security personnel to the bandits.’’
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