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| Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and CAN President, Dr Samson Ayokunle |
THE Christian
Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday, accused the Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, of distorting facts in the name of politics.
“We are disappointed but not surprised with the disparaging
lies and abusive statements credited to the Minister of Information in Ilorin
during the town hall meeting where he was accusing religious leaders of making
alleged provocative statements that can lead to religious war,’’
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CAN said in a statement signed by Special Assistant (Media
and Communications), Adebayo Oladeji, to the National President, Rev. Samson
Ayokunle.
According to
CAN, the Information Minister, in his characteristic manner, left out the
issues but went after the so-called religious leaders who are the Christian
leaders because he dare not speak against Muslim leaders who had said worse
things.
The statement asked Alhaji Mohammed if he was accusing CAN of
“telling lies that our members are being killed, maimed and burnt by the Boko
Haram terrorists in the North-East? “That our members are being killed by the Fulani
herdsmen in Plateau, Benue and now Southern Kaduna?
That those responsible for these killings profess Islam as
their religion? That those who killed Madam Bridget Agbahime in Kano were
Muslims who were arrested but later discharged and acquitted by the court as
requested by the state Attorney- General and Commissioner of Justice? ‘’That
those who killed Madam Eunice Elisha Olawale while doing the morning preaching
in Kubwa, Abuja, were Muslim fundamentalists, who were arrested but also freed
by the Police?
“Is Lai Mohammed telling us that no Christian was killed by
the Fulani herdsmen who invaded the Southern Kaduna, killed and maimed our
members and razed down their communities recently?
‘’Is Mohammed saying the Fulani herdsmen, who have been
killing our members are not armed with sophisticated weapons and is it wrong
for us to ask where they get the AK-47 and other weapons they are using?
“When all those killings were going on in Plateau, Benue and
Southern Kaduna, was there any time Lai Mohammed or anyone in the Federal
Government raised up a voice against the atrocities?”
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“If those murderous Fulani herdsmen are faceless, how come
the Sultan of Sokoto is claiming that they are not Nigerians and in another
instance, the Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, said they had been
paid for the ‘wrong done to them’? “Why is it that whenever these murderers are
perpetrating their atrocities, the security agencies look elsewhere until their
victims decided to fight back?
Is it because the security agencies are Muslim dominated? CAN
says no to disparaging remarks in the name of politics. Enough of these lies by
Lai Mohammed.”
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