Restore First Class Status To Adara Chiefdom, Group Appeals To Gov Sani

The Adara Development Association (ADA) has accused former Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai’s administration of balkanising the Adara Chiefdom.

ADA in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Livinus  Jatau,  appealed to Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, to address the injustice by restoring the First-Class status of the Adara Chiefdom.

The association also raised alarm over renewed activities of bandits terrorising its communities in Kachia and Kajuru Local Government Areas of Kaduna state.

The association recalled that the “systematic attacks, siege, and ethnic cleansing of Adara land began in 2016”

Jatau, said  during that period, “Adara communities came under persistent, coordinated assaults that resulted in destruction, displacement, widespread killings, kidnappings, including the abduction and brutal killing of the  paramount ruler, the Agom Adara,  Dr. Raphael Galadima”

The association noted that the coming of Governor Uba Sani “brought some reliefs to the communities as displaced  villagers “returned home, resumed farming, and began rebuilding their lives.”

However, the statement lamented that “in recent months, violence has returned in a highly coordinated and brutal form”.

The association stated further that communities were again being attacked and people are either being killed or abducted, adding that  “most farmers in affected communities cannot access their farmlands.”

Jatau  added that a number of schools, health centres, and markets had also been destroyed by the bandits.

The statement called on the  Federal and Kaduna State governments to take “decisive action to stop the killings by  establishing a permanent, well-equipped military outposts in all vulnerable areas” ADA said.