The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
has accused the President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Samson
Ayokunle, of defending Berom Christians over the Dura-Du pond incident.
The body spoke in reaction to
Ayokunle’s comment after the car of a missing retired general, Idris Alkali,
was found at the bottom of the pond by the army.
In a press statement signed by
its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, MURIC on Wednesday, said CAN president
failed to condemn “Berom Christian terrorists”, who it alleged knew about how
the car submerged.
It reads: “Why can’t CAN condemn
Berom terrorists the same way that Muslims condemned Boko Haram? Nigerian Muslims
washed their hands off Boko Haram terrorists even when they attacked
Christians. We did not wait until they attacked Muslims before condemning them.
“But CAN president wants to
pamper Berom Christian terrorists even when it is evident that they have been
responsible for the killing of hundreds of their Muslim neighbours and other
Muslims and Fulanis who were mere travelers passing through the axis.
“Nigerian security agencies were
able to encircle Boko Haram terrorists and they were able to restrict their
activities to a small area within Borno because Nigerian Muslims wasted no time
in denouncing and disowning them. For failing to condemn Berom terrorists, CAN
president may be nurturing a killing machine. Berom terrorists are capable of
growing into a more vicious terrorist group whose deadly tentacles will spread
to all nooks and cranies of Nigeria.
“CAN president is joining forces
with Berom women who protested that soldiers should not come near the pond. The
women lied that it was their only source of drinking water when there are more
than thirty similar ponds around the vicinity. When that failed to stop the
soldiers, they tried the superstition angle claiming that strange deaths would
start to occur in the community if the pond was drained but this is a community
of Christians, not one filled with idol worshippers.
“What has CAN president said
about the missing general? What has he to say about the general’s car that was
found right at the bottom of the same pond where the wives of terrorists
protested deceptively? What of the other four cars that were found inside the
same pond? What do the findings mean to him?
“Furthermore, Ayodele was quick to
condemn the action of security agents but found it difficult to condemn the
Berom Christian terrorists who perpetrated the atrocity. It is double standard
of the highest order. We are stupefied.
“To add salt to injury, CAN
president referred to the missing general as “a missing ex-soldier”. That is an
unforgivable understatement. Ayokunle should know that General Alkali (rtd) is
more than an ordinary ex-soldier. This is a whole army general for crying out
loud and he dismisses him as “a missing ex-soldier”. General Alkali was the
Chief of Administration in the Nigerian Army up till the time of his
retirement. We take exception to this attempt to trivialize the issue.
“Afterall, we know how CAN
regularly mobilizes retired Christian army officers to intimidate the entire
nation. While we find no need to do the same thing with retired Muslim
officers, we are worried that the CAN president attempted to equate the general
with an ordinary recruit.
“Berom community has taken on
Nigerian Muslims. They stop vehicles on the highways, pull out Fulanis and
Muslims in such vehicles and kill them. Their vehicles are dumped in the ponds.
Another 18-seater bus was found at the bottom of the Dura-Du pond yesterday.
Anybody can guess the whereabouts of the occupants. There is no gainsaying at
this point that Nigerian Muslims need protection from Berom Christian
cannibals.”
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