Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai
At least 7,000 people have signed a petition calling on the United Kingdom and the European Union to follow suit in placing visa restriction on Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, as the United States Government have done.
Reports gathered that the petition had hit 7,000 as of 11:15 am on Wednesday, September 16, 2020.
Former social media aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, on Tuesday, September 15 2020, initiated the petition which was addressed to the UK Parliament, the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson; Council of the European Union and the European Parliament.
Omokri accused el-Rufai of being a threat to the peace and security of Nigeria for many reasons noting that on December 3, 2016, the governor admitted that he paid herdsmen who had been accused of killing several persons.
Omokri’s words, “Since that admission, there has been an intense escalation of the killings of mostly Christians in Kaduna, and on August 25, 2020, suspected herdsmen abducted seven schoolchildren and their teacher from Prince Academy, in Kaduna. They have not been seen or heard of since then”.
Nasir el-Rufai was also accused by Omokri of insulting Jesus Christ on Twitter on January 27, 2013.
The petition further read, “On February 6, 2019, he threatened foreign observers, including observers from the EU and UK with death, warning that they would return in body bags should they intervene in Nigeria.
“On July 15, 2012, Nasir el-Rufai said, and I quote ‘We will write this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not that kills the Fulani takes a loan repayable one day no matter how long it takes’. This threat has been carried out in Southern Kaduna where there is an ongoing genocide of Christians under el-Rufai’s watch”.
The governor has been accused of mismanaging the diversity of Kaduna State which has led to the killings of hundreds of persons mostly in Southern Kaduna.
He was also accused of human rights abuse including ensuring the prolonged and illegal detention of government critics.
“It is for this reason that Nigerian citizens call on the government of the United Kingdom and the European Union Presidency to follow the lead of the United States and place a visa ban on Nasir el-Rufai, who is scheming to become Nigeria’s President, to prevent a Rwandan style genocide in Nigeria,” Omokri petitioned.
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