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Tuesday, 02 December, 2008 01:46 am
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| That Kano Killing |
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| Written by Habib Yakoob | ||||||
| Wednesday, 03 October 2007 | ||||||
     Or how else do you explain the almost perennial killings in this state over the last three decades? If there are no burnings and killings because America is bombing Iraq and Afghanistan, there would be because someone trampled on the Quran or abused the prophet. In Kano all you need do to deal with your enemy who is not a Hausa man or woman, is to shout that he or she has just said to hell with the prophet and before you could say STOP, the whole city would have been on fire. Last week, there were reports that nine people were killed in Tudundwada area of Kano state, and the whole state was soaked in tension, fearing that the crisis may take over the whole city. The reason for the killings, according to report was that some people saw a cartoon on the internet, sketched by a 20-year old boy in Bangladesh about the prophet; and some overzealous thugs decided to visit their anger upon any available Christian or non Hausas. As is typical of these killings, there were looting and plundering. There is also another disturbing trend, which is that if it is not on Friday, a day when the Muslims are restrained from fighting it would be during the month of Ramadhan, when they are also asked not to war. You ask then, are these really done by Muslims and for Islam? The fact of the matter is that some thugs have taken advantage of their population over and above a helpless number of none indigenes, and at all times decide to visit some calamity upon them, not because they are committed to doing it to secure certain so called reward but because they have discovered that they can do it and go scot free. I leant that when the killings started, the government pulled a fast one, by censoring the press against making noise about them. It was sure that as usual there would be a reprisal attack – a phenomenon which the southerners have devised to tell the north than they have no monopoly of violence. As I write now, no one is even sure whether we have come to the real end of that crisis. My worry is that Muslims in this country, particularly in the north have been given a badge of violence by some overzealous fighters and thugs, because the government has refused to take any serious action against them. While I was in Kano, during my university days, I knew a bunch of yandabas (Area boys) who came back after each violence (which was up to three then) to count the number of people they had killed or maimed. Those who perpetrate these killings and those who sponsor them are by all means known by the Kano state Government, but successive regime’s attempt to cover them up has been responsible for this killing ritual in Kano. But it has become necessary to bring to book all those who take innocent soul illegally (including the perpetrators of the Tudunwada killings), otherwise, a full scale genocide is knocking devilishly on our door. Already we are standing on a tinder box, and allowing these killers to continue to prowl among us takes us closer to explosion!  Quote this article on your site | Print | E-mail
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