Human Rights Writers Association
of Nigeria, HURIWA, has berated the Department of State Services, DSS, over its
alleged loud silence and apparent inaction to the unambiguous incitement
against Christians made in a recent viral video allegedly by one Ustaz Abubakar
Salihu Zaria.
The association described the
police inaction as discriminatory, illegal and totally indecorous.
HURIWA expressed consternation
and shock that such a seditious video could have been made by a so-called
religious leader threatening to carry out reprisals on Christians over the
recent cruel and brutal killing of scores of Moslem travellers in Jos by
unknown gunmen, yet for nearly three days the DSS has overlooked the
sensational and violence-prone Video.
In a statement, the National
Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs, Director
Miss Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA wonders whether the security forces including the
Nigerian Police were waiting for the threats to be fully executed before it can
take any lawful measure to bring the said religious preacher to justice.
“Can we honourably remind the
hierarchy of the DSS as they prefer to be identified, that the specific
institution known as state security services is a creation of the Nigerian law
and therefore the operatives are to serve all Nigerians equally and must never
present themselves as either Islamic Police or political police but a national
policing institution.
“We hereby ask them to invite the
said Islamic Cleric to say what he knows about a future plot to kill Christians
in Northern Nigeria should any Moslem be killed by hoodlums in Plateau State
and also find out why he classified Plateau State citizens all of whom have one
religion or the other as infidels. These inciting comments and the inaction of
either the Nigerian Police Force or the DSS are dangerous.
HURIWA also asked the DSS to
explain to Nigerians why it invited the Edo State-based Christian leader Pastor
Suleiman and the Enugu State based Catholic Priest Fr. Ejike Mbaka when they
individually made innocuous statements which in the estimation of DSS were
damaging to National Security but same DSS has gone mute upon hearing a Moslem
Cleric make threats against Christians.
HURIWA wondered too that
President Muhammadu Buhari received in audience the Sheikh from Bauchi whose
disciples were killed by unknown gunmen even after he the Sheikh was quoted in
a section of the media as allegedly threatening revenge and now the same President
and his attack dogs have kept mute to this threat against Christians by the
Islamic Cleric.
HURIWA noted that the President
through his Media minders had attacked Rt. Reverend Mathew Hassan Kukah, the
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese for reportedly criticising President
Muhammadu Buhari’s silence to the killings of Christians by armed Islamists in
the North of Nigeria.
HURIWA said the inaction and loud
silence of the DSS to the incitement against the lives of Christians in the
North made by Ustaz Abubakar Zaria contravenes some sections of the Nigerian
constitution.
The Muslim cleric was quoted as
saying partly, “Here is my message to the infidels in Plateau 2x and to CAN
Plateau and to CAN Nigeria in general.
“I am the one speaking, I am
Alkali Abubaka Salihu Zaria.
“I swear to God almighty, if such
ever occur again, there are Christians in Kaduna State, there are Christians in
Zamfara State, there are Christians in Sokoto, there are in Katsina, Kebbi,
there are Christians in Gombe, Damaturu and Yobe and there are major roads. We
will also block the roads and waylay Christian commuters.” The video had
alleged.
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