NSCIA speaks on killing on the Plateau, reveals ‘Beron Christians’ at centre of extreme criminalities
*Condemns disappearance of Gen. Idris Alkali
*Berates Christian leaders, media for complacency over killing of Muslims
*Commends Plateau Governor Lalong on peace of state
*Recalls Jonah Jang’s administration took side with killers in the past
*Demands FG to hold people around Du pond responsible for Alkali’s whereabouts
*Calls for justice over bloodletting attitude of Beron people
By KEMI KASUMU
“Now, we strongly demand that the Federal Government hold the people living in the communities around the Lafendeg Du pond responsible for the disappearance of General Alkali and the ordinary civilians whose lives had been gruesomely terminated. The guilty conscience of these terrorists and cannibals had made them to use their women to attempt stopping the search of the pond. The leader of those barely-clad women and her co-travellers should be arrested immediately and investigated to determine their actual motif and culpability in the disappearance of the General and the death of others.”
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), after carefully studying the spate of killings in Plateau State, North Central Nigeria, has risen to make a bold statement to the effect that the acts are condemnable.
In a position paper titled “Matters arising from the Plateau” signed by its Deputy Secretary General and dated 7th October 2018 equivalent of 27th Muharram, 1440 AH, the Council noted with dismay the complacency of the same Christian leaders and media in the country who at all times would respectively sensationalise reports and threaten religious war were the souls killed on the Plateau to be as a result of criminal activities of anarchists they tagged “herdsmen”.
On top of it all, to the chagrin of the apex leadership body of the Nigerian Muslim Community, is clear revelation that souls unjustifiably taken in recent times at various times are those of Muslims and that “Beron Christians” are at the centre of the “horrible and extreme criminality”.
Making reference to a past such killing of Muslims in the past by Berons, the NSCIA said
Describing the Berons as a bunch of evil and deadly ethnic supremacists, the NSCIA recalled how sometimes in the past their “brazen show of cannibalism astounded the world when they slaughtered, burnt and ate the flesh of several Muslims about a decade ago when the worshippers were waylaid at a major Islamic festival.”
It revealed further that, “It is the same terrorists that have turned Jos to a theatre of carnage again with the unbelievable discoveries being made in Lafendeg Du pond, where the car and belongings of a General of the Nigerian Army, Idris Alkali, were criminally deposited, among other traces of unimaginable horror.
According to the paper referenced ADM/SGHQ/015/021/7/10/18, the Council in strong terms condemns the unspeakable disappearance of Major General Idris Alkali (Rtd), even as it protests the gruesome murder of several other Muslims, including Zayyanu Shallah, Manager, Department of Universal Service and Provision Fund, Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), AND Jubril Mailafia, an award-winning Film Editor and Animator, in the same Plateau State community.
More pointedly charging all Nigerians to collectively and unanimously condemn the killing of innocent souls regardless of whoever is perpetrating it and or whoever may be the victims, the Council said all human souls are sacred and that they must be equally protected and valued.
“As responsible and civilised people, we must all collectively and unanimously condemn the killing of innocent souls regardless of whoever is perpetrating it and or whoever may be the victims. All human souls are sacred and they must be equally protected and valued.”
With a resemblance of a swipe at Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), it said, “The usual silence of some self-styled religious leaders when their people are the perpetrators of crime and their cantankerous posturing and raucous cacophony when their followers are perceived as victims of mayhem smack of hypocrisy and wickedness in the sight of God and indeed in the sight of all just, fair and humane people.”
It continued, “Given their antecedents, it is just true to type that General Alkali’s car, the clothes he was wearing and other personal effects were all found in the evil pond. Other similar and alarming discoveries are still being made, like carcasses of human bodies and cars, and other things that prove beyond reasonable doubt that the area in question has been converted to a triangle of undiluted evil, where innocent people plying the Jos-Abuja road are profiled religiously and Muslims are frequently hacked to death with their bodies dumped in some shallow graves while their vehicles are buried in the bellies of ponds.
“So far, many vehicles including an 18-seater bus of GombeLine, 6 motorbikes, and several dead bodies have been discovered in that particular pond alone. We understand that about 80 other ponds dot the community and it will actually take some time to unravel the depth and dimensions of the atrocities committed against innocent Muslim commuters over the past one decade.
“It is this blood-chilling reality that makes travellers to Abuja from Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe, Borno and Adamawa State to pass through Kano, enduring the hardship of travelling for a whole day on a journey that could have been undertaken within an average of 5 or 6 hours. For a madness that has lasted this long, it is curious and disappointing that no definitive measure has been taken to deal decisively with the situation as the security agents cannot claim ignorance about it.
“In the face of this unsavoury and sense-numbing development, we are dismayed and appalled that the media have chosen to remain hypocritically silent and ignominiously disinterested, understandably because, and as it has often been the case, Muslims are the victims and the perpetrators of the evil and crime are Christians.
“If it were to be the so-called herdsmen attack, though it is the same anarchists that often disguise as herdsmen to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it, the media would have been awash with sensational headlines, mischievous reports and obnoxious hyper-analyses.
“In fact, if General Alkali were a Christian, a dominant section of the media would have earned for themselves accolades for bigotry and the corrupt-souled purveyors of hate speech, masquerading men of God, would have been spitting fire and brimstone, beating the drums of war, fanning the embers of hubris and mischievously mouthing their ill-digested ‘Jihad’.
“The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) however commended the Government of Plateau State over its efforts particularly the humane display of the Governor, Rt. Hon. Simon Bako Lalong at entrenching peace and stability in the state.
“At least, his (Lalong) own administration, in the last three and a half years, until the past few months, is different from what obtained in the immediate past administration in the State when the State Government was not only brazenly taking side but was also culpable in certain situations.
“The former Governor should be able to assist the authorities in their investigations as a federal legislator had revealed on the floor of the National Assembly, even while citing security concerns for his own life, how mercenaries and terrorists had been trained abroad by politicians to kill, plunder and massacre,” it said.
The Council then spoke, “Now, we strongly demand that the Federal Government hold the people living in the communities around the Lafendeg Du pond responsible for the disappearance of General Alkali and the ordinary civilians whose lives had been gruesomely terminated.
“The guilty conscience of these terrorists and cannibals had made them to use their women to attempt stopping the search of the pond. The leader of those barely-clad women and her co-travellers should be arrested immediately and investigated to determine their actual motif and culpability in the disappearance of the General and the death of others,” the NSCIA demanded.
