Shehu Sani
‘Not in Yemen or Somalia are human lives been so cheap like in Nigeria’ – Senator Sani
[By VICTOR NZE]
Former senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District at the 8th Assembly, Shehu Sani, has lamented over the ‘tragic phase’ that insecurity in Nigeria reached.
Taking to his Facebook page, Wednesday, on the issue, Sani decried the extent the situation has reached that, according to him, “there is no place on earth today, not in Yemen or Somalia are human lives been so cheap like in this country.’
The politician and activist, who recently resigned his membership of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) having also dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on which platform he served as senator, said ‘terrorists from our own part of the country are moving beyond launching raids and extorting ransom to a new audacious level.’
According to him, these terrorists are now ‘gradually edging out the constituted authority; collecting taxes, imposing fines and installing religious and traditional structures of Leadership.’
”The terrorists from our own part of the country are moving beyond launching raids and extorting ransom to a new audacious level of gradually edging out the constituted authority; collecting taxes, imposing fines and installing religious and traditional structures of Leadership.
“In all the mass kidnappings that happened in Niger, Kebbi, Kaduna, Sokoto and Katsina, there has not been any serious rescue record other than outright payments of ransom by the families of the victims.
“People are slaughtered with ease, everyday, and the only places that are safe are those areas the terrorists opted not to attack. The frequency of which people are being killed everyday has reached such a point that both the states and Federal Government appeared tired of issuing press statements to condemn the killings or to condole with the families of the victims.
“We have reached such a tragic phase that there is no time to mourn, no time for tears, no time for sorrow because mass burials, mourning and tears have become both the routine and the new normal.
“There is no place on earth today, not in Yemen or Somalia are human lives been so cheap like in this country.
“It’s right to ask for the whereabouts of Government and the political leadership of this country in this times,” Senator Sani’s post read.
