The Christian Association of Nigeria on Friday
accused leaders of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam of endorsing the killings by
herdsmen across the country.
CAN General Secretary, Revd. Musa Asake,
said this in reaction to JNI’s allegation that Christian leaders were promoting
violence in Nigeria.
The JNI, headed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Saad
Abubakar, had earlier in a statement by its secretary, Khalid Aliyu, accused
Christian leaders of fanning the embers of discord among Nigerians.
But Asake in a statement in Abuja berated Aliyu
for ignoring CAN’s position on the ongoing killings in some states of the
federation.
He said, “Instead of facing reality and admitting
its ungodly complicity with the Fulani terrorists, the JNI leadership at its
press conference held in Kaduna on January 21, 2018, embarked on character
assassination, acrimony, vulgar abuse in its futile attempt to justify its
ungodly, unpatriotic and wicked support for the murderous Fulani herdsmen who
are also enjoying the complicity of the security agencies, whose
headships are occupied by the JNI’s cronies at the expense of the unity and
progress of our dear country.”
The CAN scribe stated that the rampaging herdsmen
were enjoying tacit encouragement from the JNI leadership, “the way and manner
they did for the Boko Haram terrorists when they began thinking they were
spreading Islam in the country.”
The Christian body observed that at no time did
the JNI publicly condemn the criminal activities of the Fulani herdsmen since
they began killing innocent Nigerians.
It added, “It is an open secret that the criminal
activities of their boys have gone to the extreme because of the tacit
encouragement they are getting from the leadership of the JNI.”
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