The National President of the Southern Kaduna
Peoples Union, (SOKAPU), Mr Ephraim Goje, led one of the protests.
He decried the recent attack in Kaura Local
Government that resulted to the killing of 148 persons, including women and
children.
"We have had not less than 50 attacks in our
communities from 2011 and the worst is the recent one in three villages in
Bondong district of Kaura Local Government where over 148 children, women and
the aged were murdered.
"The reason for this is that government has
failed to mobilise operatives to secure our land.
"If they have this number of armoured tanks,
they should move down to Southern Kaduna," he said.
Goje said that the government should be sensitive
to their plights.
"It is our community that voted for these
people and if they don’t protect us in 2015, we are not going to vote for any
insensitive government," he said.
Also speaking, a former Attorney General of
Kaduna State, Mr Adamu Kish, who was part of the protest, said "children
were killed in Yobe state and people are crying that innocent people are being
killed in their villages".
"The authority should allow people to
express their pains and not come out with arms against peace loving and law
abiding citizens.
"Our children, our mothers, our fathers in
the villages are being killed, while police are supposed to be protecting them.
"We are not holding arms here, we are not
fighting here, we want to go about our businesses, go to our farms, the police
should not intimidate us," he said.
NAN reports that the police operatives were
present to make sure that the protesters did not go beyond their allotted
boundary.
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