The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Kaduna Branch, on Tuesday led residents of six communities in Igabi Local Government Area in a peaceful protest against alleged illegal demolitions, human rights violations, and brazen disobedience of subsisting court orders by the Commander of the Infantry Corps Centre (ICC), Jaji, Major General Usman Abdulmumin Yusuf.
The affected communities; Mallam Auta, Ungwan Yohanna, Ungwan Aboki, Sabon Ungwan Loya, Ungwan Railway, and Ungwan Alhassan marched with NBA members to the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kaduna, where they lodged their grievances.
The protesters carried placards with different inscriptions, calling for rule of law to prevail and chanting that, military authorities are not above the civil laws.
NBA Kaduna Chairman, Baba Lawal Aliyu, told reporters that the association was disturbed by demolitions of ancestral homes and farmlands, arbitrary arrests without warrants, and forced evictions in Igabi, despite binding court injunctions.
He lamented that on August 15, Ungwan Aboki was demolished under military guard in the dead of night, leaving hundreds of families, women, children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities, homeless and destitute. He added that Hayin Mallam Auta had been marked for imminent demolition despite court orders prohibiting such actions.
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