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Sultan and CAN slam FG over insecurity says everything is not alright
The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar and President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Samson Ayokunle on Thursday slammed the Federal Government for the poor management of the nation’s security.
They lamented that terrorists kill people on a daily basis in the northern part of the country especially in the North West and the killings are mostly not reported.
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Abubakar and Ayokunle their minds in Abuja at the 4th Quarterly Meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council.
The Sultan said everything was not right with the country, citing the increased level of crime and criminality across the federation.
He said, “Let’s not deceive ourselves, everything is not alright, I have said this so many times, and to know that you have a problem, you have part of the solution. The earlier we rise up to the occasion, come together, the better for us.”
Citing the recent threat letter by bandits to Christians in Zamfara State, the Sultan also came hard on the security agencies for not doing enough to investigate and authenticate the source of the violent message.
He lamented that the lack of due diligence by the police before informing Christians of the planned attack on Churches in Zamfara could have frightened worshippers and dampened their faith.
The Sultan said, “When I saw a note that the bandits are threatening Christians in Zamfara, I asked what is the work of our security agencies? Why will they come out and make such comment when they have not verified it? You are making people to be more frightened.
“I will not stop going to mosque to pray just because I saw in a paper that if I go to mosque I will be killed. Let me be killed. I must die. So, Christians should not be afraid of going to church to worship because an anonymous person is threatening them.”
While advocating for a new approach and strategy to address some of the challenges in the country, the Sultan said some religious leaders have been part of the major problems the nation is facing.
“We have to be careful in the way we handle, say and do things as religious leaders. We are not political leaders. Therefore, we have to be wary of what we say, where and how we say such things, because our followers will definitely believe in what we say. They will believe and feel that it is from the Holy Koran or the Holy Bible.
“We cannot go on telling things to people without thinking that they will believe. We cannot go on saying things that we know we don’t have full knowledge of,” he said.
Ayokunle, who co-chairs NIREC with the Sultan, described the nation’s highways as a “den of kidnappers and a no-go-area for travellers.”
He wondered why the security forces could not trace the kidnappers to their hideout and rescue the victims.
The CAN President said, “Travelling from one point to another by road in particular has become a very great risk. Kidnapper are everywhere and they don’t only come out to kidnap but also to kill, so you don’t know who the next victim is going to be.
“Why should these people be killing and hiding people in our territory without being challenged? Why should it be easy for them to hide people somewhere within the state and the security agencies in the state within few days or weeks will not be able to fish them out?”
Ayokunle called for an increase in intelligence gathering, urging the public to also volunteer information to the security agencies to help the tracing and apprehension of the criminals.
He also advocated for increased investment in the military to enhance their performance, and warned the security forces to purge themselves of elements who aid and abet criminality in the country.
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