CAN alleges herdsmen killings fueled by support from group led by Sultan

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has alleged that killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen was heightened by the tacit encouragement from Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), a Muslim body headed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar.

The Christian body made this allegation on Friday in response to a recent statement JNI released through its secretary, Khalid Aliyu, accusing the CAN leadership of promoting violence in Nigeria.

But CAN in a statement through its general secretary, Revd. Musa Asake, criticized Aliyu for ignoring CAN’s position on the ongoing killings in some states of the federation, adding that JNI has been endorsing the killings by herdsmen across the country.

“Instead of facing reality and admitting its ungodly complicity with the Fulani terrorists, the JNI leadership at its press conference held in Kaduna on January 21, 2018, embarked on character assassination, acrimony, vulgar abuse in its futile attempt to justify its ungodly, unpatriotic and wicked support for the murderous Fulani herdsmen who are also enjoying the complicity of the security agencies, whose headships are occupied by the JNI’s cronies at the expense of the unity and progress of our dear country”.

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According to CAN, herdsmen are being encouraged by JNI leadership the same way and manner the group “did for the Boko Haram terrorists when they began thinking they were spreading Islam in the country.”

Wondering why JNI had not at anytime openly condemned the criminal activities of the Fulani herdsmen since they began killing innocent Nigerians, CAN added, “It is an open secret that the criminal activities of their boys have gone to the extreme because of the tacit encouragement they are getting from the leadership of the JNI.”

 

 

 

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