New military formation ‘will check’ violence in southern Kaduna

A group known as the Northern Christian Youth Assembly has expressed delight over the formation of a military formation in Kanfachan in in Jema’a local government area of Kaduna state.

Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, and Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, laid the foundation of the military base on Saturday.

Commenting on this, Peter Bawa, coordinator of the group, said security personnel deployed to the barracks will give “marauding killers a hot chase”.

“Laying the foundation for the building of a military barracks in Kafanchan is a development that we know would go a long way to curtail the menace of maurading killers that have plunged too many communities in the area into mourning,” Bawa said in a statement.

“We see the building of a military formation in the area as a way of shortening troops’ deployment time and ensuring that troublemakers within that vicinity are given a hot chase and no longer have anywhere to torment the peace of the people.

“The prompt implementation of the barracks project is a demonstration of the administration’s sincere commitment to ensuring the safety of lives and property of all citizens irrespective of political or religious leanings.

“It has gone a long way to again show that we truly have responsible and decisive leadership that is willing and able to confront any emerging evil to ensure Nigerians can live in peace to enjoy their own country.

“While we remain confident in the ability of the Nigerian Army which is one of the best in the world to bring perpetrators of all the deadly attacks around that vicinity to justice within the shortest period of time, the subsequent completion of the barracks would further boost the confidence of the people in the neighborhood in the military of their country.”