2nd
February, 2018
PRESS RELEASE:
MURIC DECRIES
BURNING OF SIX FULANIS IN GBOKO
Six Fulani travellers were allegedly burned to death in
Gboko, Plateau State, on Wednesday, 31st January, 2018.
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) strongly denounces
this criminal act. It is wicked, inhuman and barbaric.
In particular, we
are greatly worried that no media house has deemed it fit to give this dastardly
act any attention. The radio stations are silent over it. The television
stations have ignored it. The print media also do not consider it as newsworthy.
Yet these are the same outfits which gave extensive coverage, superfluous
broadcast times and exaggerated publicity to the unfortunate Benue killings.
The same media outfits kept mum when 732 Fulanis were
massacred in Mambilla. They looked the other way when 82 women and children of
Fulani stock were killed in cold blood in Numan. They said nothing when life
was brutally snuffed out of 24 Fulanis in Lau. They couldn’t be bothered when
96 Fulanis were cut down in Kajuru.
The Nigerian landscape is now very unsafe for the
Fulani man, woman or child. Fulanis have become endangered species. The problem
here is that Nigerians are cutting their noses to spite their faces. Heavy
doses of ethnic jingoism are being injected into the blood streams of Nigerians
on a daily basis. We are turning into bitter enemies among ourselves. Who did
this to Nigeria?
MURIC is of the opinion that the National Orientation
Agency (NOA), the Nigerian Police and the press have a lot to do in this
matter. There is an urgent need for NOA to disabuse and re-engineer the
Nigerian bolekaja mentality. The police must apprehend all killers of men no
matter their tribal leaning, whether they are Benue militia, killer herdsmen or
Berom hoodlums. The Nigerian media must also eschew asymmetric reportage.
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
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