Constitution Review: Southern & Northern Kaduna Agree To Split
Constitution Review: Southern & Northern Kaduna Agree To Split: In what happened to be a shock at the ongoing constitution review, both Southern and Northern Kaduna agree to Split into two, the people of southern Kaduna has no intention to continue staying as one with their northern counter pact
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Hon. Jonathan Asake, the President of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), presented his people mandate to part-away with the North amidst unending violence and killings
If all go according to plan, Gurara state will be born out of the Southern Part, the South will no longer tolerate the killings and unending
Hon. Jonathan Asake who defended the memo of Southern Kaduna people and said:
“The wish of Southern Kaduna is to have a brand new constitution, not an amended one,”
“But in the absence of that, we are here to make our inputs as a people who have suffered suppression and oppression for a long time,”
“Southern Kaduna is made up of 67 ethnic nationalities spread in 13 of the 23 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Kaduna state. It has a landmass of 26,000kmsq with an estimated population of 5.1 million. We are endowed with an educated population and with abundant natural resources,”
“Our land size is greater than that of Kano state which has a landmass of 20,000kmsq. Yet Kano is a state of its own with 44 LGAs. Our population is greater than 21 other states of the federation,” he went on. “We are demanding for the amendment of the provision of section 8 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which makes it almost an impossible task for the creation of a new state,” he insisted.
“We have been demanding for a state of our own for over thirty years and Gurara state was among the 18 states proposed in the 2014 Confab report,” he said.
“We are demanding for the creation of the Gurara state after the amendment. This will help in solving the incessant conflicts between our people and the other divide,” he said.
“we are canvassing for the creation of New Kaduna state from the present Kaduna state and we want the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria amended to make this possible.”
“Kaduna South has been complaining of marginalization ever since, even though Chiefdoms have been given to them and they occupy 60% of the workforce of Kaduna state,” he added.
“Let the state be split and if they are asking for Gurara state, let them have it,” he said.
“This will solve all the crises we have been having in this state,” he added.
“On our part, we are asking for the creation of ‘New Kaduna State’, which will include Kaduna North and Kaduna Central Senatorial zones,” he said.
“But there should be a referendum for each section of the state to decide on where it wants to belong,”