9th April, 2017
Southern Kaduna Muslim Umma Development Association has called on the Federal and Kaduna State Governments to compensate victims of the 2011 post election violence.
The group is also pushing for fair treatment on issues affecting Southern Kaduna.
The Chairman of the association Alhaji Adamu Kagarko said in Kaduna on Sunday while inaugurating sub-committees for the 30th anniversary of the association, the people have suffered long years of neglect.
He said that the association would push for the compensation and protection of all people in the area,
“We should get fair treatment on issues affecting our people,” he said, adding that in spite of the committees set up on the 2011 crisis and other conflicts in the area, “we have not been getting fair share in terms of reward and punishment.”
He said that the association would continue to promote and protect the interest of the Muslim minority in Southern Kaduna being marginalised because of their faith.
“We want justice for all in Southern Kaduna and not segregational justice,” he stressed.
Dogara disclosed that the association, which is the umbrella body of all Muslims in Southern Kaduna, would mark its 30th anniversary on April 29, 2017.
He explained that its main objective was to make the world understand the real happenings in Southern Kaduna “and what has happened to us as victims of various crisis.”
Dogara, a retired permanent secretary, said the upcoming event would include public presentation of books, seminar, and a summary of the crisis in the area.
Alhaji Adamu Makadi heads the Finance sub-committee, that of Contact and Mobilization is under Alhaji Abdullahi Wamban Jama’a, while the Technical Committee is headed by Prof Mohammed Ashafa.