CAN pampering Christian terrorists – Muslim group explodes
Association of Nigeria (CAN), Samson Ayokunle, of defending Berom
Christians over the Dura-Du pond incident.
The body spoke in reaction to Ayokunle's comment after the car of a
missing retired general, Idris Alkali, was found at the bottom of the
pond by the army.
In a press statement signed by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola,
MURIC on Wednesday, said CAN president failed to condemn "Berom
Christian terrorists", who it alleged knew about how the car
submerged.
It reads: "Why can't CAN condemn Berom terrorists the same way that
Muslims condemned Boko Haram? Nigerian Muslims washed their hands off
Boko Haram terrorists even when they attacked Christians. We did not
wait until they attacked Muslims before condemning them.
"But CAN president wants to pamper Berom Christian terrorists even
when it is evident that they have been responsible for the killing of
hundreds of their Muslim neighbours and other Muslims and Fulanis who
were mere travelers passing through the axis.
"Nigerian security agencies were able to encircle Boko Haram
terrorists and they were able to restrict their activities to a small
area within Borno because Nigerian Muslims wasted no time in
denouncing and disowning them. For failing to condemn Berom
terrorists, CAN president may be nurturing a killing machine. Berom
terrorists are capable of growing into a more vicious terrorist group
whose deadly tentacles will spread to all nooks and cranies of
Nigeria.
"CAN president is joining forces with Berom women who protested that
soldiers should not come near the pond. The women lied that it was
their only source of drinking water when there are more than thirty
similar ponds around the vicinity. When that failed to stop the
soldiers, they tried the superstition angle claiming that strange
deaths would start to occur in the community if the pond was drained
but this is a community of Christians, not one filled with idol
worshippers.
"What has CAN president said about the missing general? What has he to
say about the general's car that was found right at the bottom of the
same pond where the wives of terrorists protested deceptively? What of
the other four cars that were found inside the same pond? What do the
findings mean to him?
"Furthermore, Ayodele was quick to condemn the action of security
agents but found it difficult to condemn the Berom Christian
terrorists who perpetrated the atrocity. It is double standard of the
highest order. We are stupefied.
"To add salt to injury, CAN president referred to the missing general
as "a missing ex-soldier". That is an unforgivable understatement.
Ayokunle should know that General Alkali (rtd) is more than an
ordinary ex-soldier. This is a whole army general for crying out loud
and he dismisses him as "a missing ex-soldier". General Alkali was the
Chief of Administration in the Nigerian Army up till the time of his
retirement. We take exception to this attempt to trivialize the issue.
"Afterall, we know how CAN regularly mobilizes retired Christian army
officers to intimidate the entire nation. While we find no need to do
the same thing with retired Muslim officers, we are worried that the
CAN president attempted to equate the general with an ordinary
recruit.
"Berom community has taken on Nigerian Muslims. They stop vehicles on
the highways, pull out Fulanis and Muslims in such vehicles and kill
them. Their vehicles are dumped in the ponds. Another 18-seater bus
was found at the bottom of the Dura-Du pond yesterday. Anybody can
guess the whereabouts of the occupants. There is no gainsaying at this
point that Nigerian Muslims need protection from Berom Christian
cannibals."
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