FG plans state of emergency rule in Kaduna

INDICATIONS emerged on Monday that President Goodluck Jonathan was considering declaring a state of emergency in Kaduna State to curb the spate of violence that followed Sunday’s bombings of three churches.
Jonathan on Monday held separate meetings with the Senate President, David Mark; Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Musdapher Dahiru; and the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Sources said the meetings centred on the possibility of imposing a state of emergency if the reprisals in the state continued.
A source who refused to give a detailed account of the meetings between the President and his guests however said Jonathan was “deeply sad and disturbed” by the reprisals.
Mark, during a brief chat with journalists at the end of his discussion with Jonathan refused to disclose the subject of his meeting with the President, saying he was on “just a normal visit” to the Villa.
Asked why his “just normal visit” coincided with that of the CJN, the Senate President said, “I didn’t see the CJN”. He however enjoined “the people” to refrain from reprisals but to “take solace in God.”
“Vengeance is not ours. We must leave vengeance to God; continue to appeal to the people who are behind it to reason and put this off because it is not in the interest of this country,” he said.
The bombings of the churches in Zaria and Kaduna metropolis triggered reprisals by Christian youths on Sunday with no fewer than 40 persons killed.
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