Shasha Killings: Nigerians causing religious, ethnic conflicts now in trouble, as President Buhari vows to act

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President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari.

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By BASHIR ADEFAKA

 

Many Nigerians, who believe that the President had waited and tolerated for too long as elements of destabilisation thrived, have been asking him to arrest any religious “and/or” ethnic leader found to be involved in the evils as a deterrent.

 

President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his government will protect all religious and ethnic groups, whether majority or minority in line with its responsibility under the constitution.

This bold statement, issued in Abuja on Sunday by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Mallam Garba Shehu, was coming after several calls for state action against people in the country hiding under religion and ethnic nationalism to destabilize the nation through hate speeches and unguarded divisive utterances.

Many Nigerians, who believe that the President had waited and tolerated for too long as elements of destabilisation thrived, have been asking him to arrest any religious “and/or” ethnic leader found to be involved in the evils as a deterrent.

They said the President’s best of gentility was not good enough as it was responsible for the crisis in the land, being, according to them, that those bent on destabilising the country do not deserve the level of kindness with which the Daura, Katsina State-born leader has been handling their matters.

The patriots had therefore demanded, since the President’s refusal to act against those they call evil agents is why they take him for granted, that he should now rise up and teach them lessons by arresting them including their international, media, so called human rights legal and judiciary collaborators as well as going to the extent of blocking all social media and civil society organisations found to be with them in conspiring against Nigeria, the government and its security agencies.

The calls for action on the President, who has been running affairs of the difficult people, heightened last Friday when dangerous sectarian agenda championed by Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a. Sunday Igboho peaked in scary killing of Hausa people and counterattacks over issue of misunderstanding between a Yoruba woman trader and Hausa cart pusher in Shasha, Ibadan, in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State last Thursday.

The killings were described as unnecessary being that the misunderstanding could have been resolved easily by police, if ethnic and religious hate had not been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, courtesy Igboho and co.

One of the patriots wondered “that Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Afenifere, John Nwodo-led Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Obasanjo-led coalition, who started this evil agenda, are now hiding their faces. Or how do you describe a religious group that went to report President Buhari to US President Donald Trump during his time as killer of Christians in Nigeria and Trump believed him? How do you describe religious leader that claimed Coronavirus lockdown that was global action against the pandemic was persecution of the Church in Nigeria just in utter display of hate for the religion and tribe of the man in power?”

Mallam Shehu, in a four-paragraph statement, said: “In a reaction to reports of breakout of violence in some parts of the country by some ethnic and sectional groups, President Buhari warned that the government will not allow any ethnic or religious group to stoke up hatred and violence against other groups.

“The President condemned such violence and gave assurance that his government will act decisively to stop the spread of any such violence.

“He appealed to religious and traditional leaders as well governors and other elected leaders across the country to join hands with the Federal Government to ensure that communities in their domain are not splintered along ethnic and other primordial lines,” he said.


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