1st March,
2024
PRESS RELEASE:
ALLEGED PROBE OF EX-NAHCON BOSS: MURIC
BLASTS AUTHORS OF FAKE STORY
An
online media house on Monday, 26th February, 2024 published a story
where it claimed that the former chairman of the National Hajj Commission
(NAHCON), Barrister Dhikrullah Hassan, was invited and grilled for hours by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Meanwhile
the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has described the story as fake, odious,
odoriferous and a lie from the pit of Jahannam. The group also described those
behind it as petty, mean and cowards.
This
was disclosed in a press statement issued on Friday 1st March, 2024 by the
Executive Director of the human rights organization, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The
full statement reads:
"An
online media house on Monday, 26th February, 2024 published a story
where it claimed that the former chairman of the National Hajj Commission
(NAHCON), Barrister Dhikrullah Hassan, was invited and grilled for hours by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
"As a human rights outfit dedicated to the pursuit
of truth, we did our homework before reacting. Our findings reveal that the
story was a hatchet job. Somebody somewhere wanted to puncture the good works
of Barrister Dhikrullah Hassan.
"But
they failed woefully. This online media house has succeeded in exposing itself
as pedestrian, jejune and subatomic.
"The
interviews conducted by MURIC exposed the authors as pathological liars because
whereas they claimed that the six executive secretaries of the pilgrims board
in the South-West wrote a petition against Barrister Dhikrullah Hassan, such a
thing never happened and those interviewed denied writing such a petition.
"They said there was no reference at all to the
former chairman of NAHCON because what they wrote was not even a petition but
an appeal to the authorities to pay their emoluments for the 2022 hajj which
was disrupted by COVID-19. They were also aware that the delay in the payment
was due to the usual bureaucracy for which ministries and agencies are well
known and over which the ex-NAHCON chief executive had no power.
"One
of those we spoke with described the former chairman, Dhikrullah Hassan, as
'...A very nice man. He is our father … We wrote no petition against him.'
"We
therefore wonder where the media house got its cock and bull story from. It is
clearly a hatchet job concocted from their figment of imagination. It is
nothing but a product of yellow journalism designed to tarnish the good name of
a man of integrity. We cannot rule out a developing campaign of calumny still
in its embryo stage.
"It
is as clear as daylight that the story is fake, odious, odoriferous and a lie
from the pit of Jahannam. Those behind it are petty, mean, mischievous and
cowards.
"Barrister Dhikrullah Hassan is a worthy ambassador
of Nigerian Muslims. He stands on the same pedestal with Professor Ishaq
Oloyede, Professor Ali Isa Pantami, Mallam Adamu Adamu, etc. It is our duty as
an Islamic human rights organization to challenge and expose mischief makers
who attempt to tarnish the reputation of heroes of the Nigerian Muslim Ummah.
"MURIC
therefore warns those behind such diabolical plot to desist and rethink because
we will not hesitate to go all out after them if they persist in their
luciferous ways."
#NAHCON
#DhikrullahHassan
#StopCampainOfCalumny
Professor Ishaq
Akintola,
Executive Director,
Muslim Rights Concern
(MURIC).
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