Stop the lies, CAN cautions Lai Mohammed

Days after saying his claims are hardly laced with lies, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has taken the Minister of Information and Culture , Lai Mohammed, to task for allegedly distorting facts.

The Minister is reported to have, at a Town Hall meeting in Ilorin, allegedly pointed accusing fingers at Christian leaders for making inciting remarks capable of plunging Nigeria into crisis.

However, CAN on Tuesday said it was appalled by the Minister’s serial lies and bias against the Christian community.

In a strongly worded response to Lai’s recent claims, the association said as follows, “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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The statement signed by Special Assistant (Media and Communications), Adebayo Oladeji, to the National President, Rev. Samson Ayokunle raised further posers for the Minister to address.

CAN queried as follows: Are we “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?”

“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.”

Only recently, Lai Mohammed had asked Nigerians to “point to one that I said that has turned out not to be true.”

 

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