Kaduna Train Attack: FG Must End Senseless Killings — Immediate Past NBA General Sec., Jonathan Taidi

*Says Govt Seems To Value Elections More Than Protection Of Human Life
*Commiserates With NBA Over Loss Of Three Of Its Members
The immediate past General Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Jonathan Taidi, has reacted to the Kaduna train bombast that claimed lives on Tuesday 29th March, 2022
The terrorists had on Monday night bombed the Abuja-Kaduna rail tracks and attacked a train filled with passengers.
Subsequently, the Nigerian Railway Corporation on Tuesday announced the suspension of train operations along the Abuja-Kaduna route indefinitely following the attacks.
Jonathan opined that the attack is a result of inexcusable Incompetence of federal government. He expressed concern that government deploys security during elections but does not do so in situations where lives of citizens are in danger. He accused the government of prioritizing elections to lives of the citizens
He said, “The recent twin-attack on the popular Abuja – Kaduna rail line which killed a score of passengers, and left many more wounded or unaccounted for is proof that the Federal Government of Nigeria is sleeping on duty. The second attack actually came within 24 hours of the first and both came only a year after a similar attack was launched on the railway last year shortly after the route became popular as a result of the incessant kidnappings and killings along the Abuja- Kaduna road which made the rail a safer alternative.
“Now the bandits have taken away that alternative and we are forced to live like people under permanent siege.
“It is impossible to excuse the kind of incompetence that is at work here. At every election we see a massive deployment of security personnel, in their tens of thousands, outside their places of primary assignment, drafted to police the polls, so the question is: why are we not seeing the same kind of commitment now when there is a clear and present danger to the lives of our people traveling this route?
“It seems that as far as the government is concerned, winning elections takes precedence over the sacred duty of protecting the lives and property of the people, which is universally acknowledged as the first function of government.”
Taidi therefore called in the federal government to take drastic action in order to restore security in the country. He also condoled with the NBA over loss of three of its members.
“For how long shall we continue to mourn and grieve the loss of our loved ones, colleagues and compatriots while also living in fear for our lives because we know that no one is safe anymore in this country?
“I hereby call on the Federal Government to stop the foot dragging, the feckless reassurances, and the crocodile tears, and actually make drastic changes to the current methodology of crime fighting. It is obvious that whatever it has done till now has not worked and had instead emboldened the bandits to perpetuate even worse atrocities.
“May I use this medium to commiserate with the president and members of the Nigerian Bar Association in general and the Chairman and Members of NBA Kaduna Branch in particular over the loss of three of its members. My deepest sympathy is with all the families who lost their loved ones on board the train as I join my voice to those who demand that the government immediately accounts for those whose whereabouts are still unknown.” Taidi said
The Kaduna train attack came after terrorists, numbering over 200, on Saturday invaded the Kaduna International Airport located in Igabi Local Government Area in Kaduna State, disrupting operation and killing one security personnel of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency.
The attack caused panic at the airport and reportedly grounded a Lagos-bound AZMAN aircraft scheduled to take off at 12:30 pm.
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