Zango Urban Community Development Association (ZOCUDA), a Hausa/Fulani community in Zangon-Kataf local government area of Kaduna State, has urged Gen. Zamani Lekwot (rtd) to grant a fresh interview revealing the role he played in the 1992 Zangon-Kataf crisis.
The community in its reaction to a recent interview granted a daily newspaper (not LEADERSHIP) by General Lekwot advised him to desist from granting interviews on the crisis if he is not ready to reveal what transpired, adding that, “the biased” interview he recently granted to justify crimes committed against Hausa/Fulani members of the community in the 1992 crisis only opened wounds of the past.
Challenging Gen. Lekwot to bring his witness about the market he said was the cause of the crisis, the acting chairman, Board of Trustees of ZOCUDA, Alhaji Ibrahim Bisallah, said the purported site was an empty land without any infrastructure and no single stall was built by the authorities concerned, but relocation was announced impromptu in order to achieve what he described as an ethnic agenda by the then chairman of the local government area.
ZOCUDA asked General Lekwot to grant another interview to tell the world the “honest and humble truth”, adding that contrary to Gen. Lekwot’s assertion in the interview that the 1992 Zangon Kataf crisis started as a result of relocation of a new market which led to an attack on an Atyap commuity (which the general failed to mention) and how many persons killed, there are enough records in their (Hausa/Fulani) archives to enlighten the public on the roles played by all the parties.