Senator Uche Chukwumerije, representing Abia North has decried the killings of Igbos during the multiple explosions in Kano that occurred last Monday, March 18.
He however warned that if such situation was not managed properly the outcome of this incident could be catastrophic.
Speaking at plenary through a Point Of Order, Chukwumerije said the particular explosion was targeted at a particular ethic group and region of Nigeria.
He said “the reaction coming from this tragic incident suggests so; therefore this has to be addressed as ethnicity and religion are the two most tensed social categories in Nigeria.”
He underscored that “all the five buses belong to owners who all hail from the same ethnic group.”
He further stated that the incident was like a ‘volcano’ hence no one was able to go in to rescue anyone or anything after the explosion. 80 percent of people killed were Igbos and over a hundred persons died from this explosion.
He urged that security issues must be tackled as the Nigerian people are asking what the government has done and why these incessant murders continue.
He recounted a similar explosion in the same area and yet nothing was done to protect this populated area from a future occurrence.
“The people in the area are unhappy as they feel that the state government has done little even to properly console them in their loss.
This in effect means that the confidence of the victims has dwindled towards the Government and State as a whole” he said.
Also, Senator Kabiru Gaya representing Kano South while condemning the killings said the attackers have come to cause disunity in Kano and in Nigeria.
Sen Gaya who disclosed that at least two people are killed every day in Kano also noted that the government is not doing enough to stop this pattern.
He said people in his state are so terrified that students do not attend school anymore because they fear they will lose their lives adding “everything in the state is at a standstill as a result of these frequent attacks.”
He lamented that only 8,000 police officers are assigned to Kano as against 33, 000 police officers for Lagos.
He said “this is an indication that there is insufficient manpower to handle the security problems in his state.”
He also advanced for dialogue with the attackers to be adopted, including the option of amnesty, so long as the menace ends.
However, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu who presided over the session condemned the attacks in Kano.
Describing the attack as ‘regrettable,’ he appealed that the government needs to explore other options to stop such carnage happening again.
The Senate took a minute silent in honour of the slain ones.