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| Emanuel Onwubiko. |
A Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) on Sunday, said Nigeria would have been boiling should rampaging bandits/terrorists kill and kidnap Imams the way the marauders are terrorizing and annihilating Christian leaders in the country.
HURIWA’s
National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, categorically
stressed that the President, Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the service chiefs and
all the heads of security agencies who are Muslims would have swung into action
should kidnappers start feasting on Imams.
The
group emphasised that the spate of kidnapping and gruesome killing of
Christians leaders and their followers was pure persecution and asked why Imams
have not fallen victim to abductions and killings if the problem is a general
one and not targeted at Christians as seen in the last few years.
Recall
that terrorists murdered another Catholic priest, Rev Fr. Vitus Borogo, in
Kaduna State, of late. The 50-year-old priest was murdered at the Prison Farm,
Kujama, along the Kaduna-Kachia Road.
This
followed the abduction and killing of Reverend Father Joseph Bako of the St
John Catholic Church, Kudenda in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna
State which happened in March.
“About
20 Christian clerics have either been kidnapped or killed just in 2022 and
there has not been one report of the kidnap or the killing of an Imam. This is
not in any way inciting the kidnap of Imams but the unending attacks on
Christian clerics is suspicious that clandestine forces are after Christian
clerics and they are backed up by people in power who are mostly Islamic
fundamentals,” HURIWA’s Onwubiko said.
Recall
also that the Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Samuel
Kanu Uche; the Methodist Bishop of Owerri, Rt. Rev. Dennis Mark; Founder of
Solid Rock Kingdom Church, Apostle John Okoriko; Rev. Fr. Alphonsus Uboh of St.
Pius X Parish IkotAbasi in the Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom
State; amongst others have been kidnapped just this year.
“Now,
the bloodthirsty marauders, buoyed by the nonchalance and inaction of security
agencies led by Muslims, have the audacity to murder Rev Fr. Vitus Borogo. This
is totally unacceptable and must stop forthwith,” Onwubiko stated.
Continuing,
he added, “The hot and sizzling Jihad against Christians allegedly supported by
Islamists embedded in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is alarming
and condemnable.
“The
fact that all the internal security institutions are led by Muslims in the last
seven years and Christian are being killed and kidnapped in targeted and
coordinated manner shows a pattern that enjoys tacit support of the top most
echelons of the security architecture.
“HURIWA
maintains that if there is no plot to wipe off Christians, the President would
have rejigged the headship of the internal security institutions like the
police, the Army, the Department of State Services, Customs, Immigration,
Prison, Civil defence, NIA, amongst others to inject representatives of
Christians but the President refused meaning there is a longstanding plots
against Christians.
“HURIWA
alerts the whole world, the United Nations, the European Union, the United
Kingdom, the United States, Pope Francis, and other international powers to
take notice of the genocide of Christians in Kaduna, Owo in Ondo, Plateau,
amongst others and pressure the Buhari government to end the carnage of
Christians.”
Culled.
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