YOU CAN’T FOOL EU PARLIAMENT: MURIC TELLS NCEF
The Northern Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) yesterday petitioned the
European Parliament over President Buhari’s attendance of the summit of the
Organisation of Islamic Conference and alleged Islamisation of Nigeria. NCEF
also alleged that the president was not doing enough on the security challenges
facing the country.
But the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has described the allegations
as a compendium of lies from the pit of Jahannam. MURIC’s reaction was
contained in a statement shared to the media by its Director, Professor Ishaq
Akintola, on Friday, 7th June, 2019.
“NCEF’s allegations are a compendium
of lies from the pit of Jahannam. They are frivolous, unfounded, imaginary,
untenable and unacceptable. We have no modicum of doubt that their lies will
come crashing down on them like a pack of cards when the EU Parliament
investigates their allegations. NCEF cannot fool the EU Parliament.
“EU Parliament will find it interesting to know that Nigeria became
a member of OIC back in 1969 when General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), a Christian, took
Nigeria to the organization in observer status. Gowon is not a Muslim but he
needed the organisation’s support for Nigeria during the civil war (1967 –
1971). Spain, Portugal and France were supporting Biafra and Gowon found it mandatory
to rally the support of African countries through Nigeria’s membership of OIC.
“It will therefore become clear that joining OIC has nothing to do
with Islamisation but another way of pursuing Nigeria’s national interest. Nigeria
joined for political expediency and the regularization in 1986 was merely
procedural.
“Just as Gowon used the
instrumentality of Nigeria’s membership of OIC to secure victory for Nigeria in
the civil war, President Buhari used his physical presence at the 2019 OIC summit
to return home with two juicy take-aways, not for himself, not for Jubril of
Sudan, not for the Fulanis, not even for Daura, but for his country, Nigeria. OIC
pledged to support Nigeria’s war against terrorism and also to support Nigeria
in completing the ongoing Second Niger Bridge project.
“It is therefore unfortunate that NCEF still has the audacity to
accuse Buhari of not doing enough on security issues and for attending the OIC
summit. How would Nigeria have secured the organisation’s support for its war
against terrorism if Buhari had not attended the summit and tabled Nigeria’s
challenges there?
“Again, is the Second Niger Bridge situated in Daura? Who benefits
from its completion? Is it Buhari personally, the Fulanis as a race or Islam as
a creed? NCEF petition to the EU Parliament as well as the criticisms of
Ohaneze and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) are therefore a mark of
ingratitude. But we are certain that the petition in particular is an exercise
in futility. Those behind the petition should bury their heads in shame considering
the economic and security gains realized from the summit.
“Nigeria’s security challenges did not start under Buhari. The Boko
Haram phenomenon started in the Obasanjo days and grew worse under Jonathan.
The insurgents effectively occupied 17 local governments as far back as 2014.
It was Buhari’s frontal confrontation that reduced the hoodlums to a hit and
run guerrilla unit today.
“Bombs were exploding on a daily
basis in Jonathan’s days but it receded to a weekly and later, monthly affair
under Buhari. It was because the global terrorist network knew that Boko Haram
is dying that the Islamic State of West Africa has taken over. The Nigerian
security agencies kill and arrest scores of kidnappers, armed robbers and other
criminals on a daily basis. Yet detractors claim that Buhari is not doing
enough and NCEF thinks taking him to the EU Parliament is the solution. Where did
they take Jonathan to when the North East was almost completely overrun under
him? What kind of citizens drag their own country in the mud before foreigners?
Nigerians are waiting to see how NCEF will succeed in its satanic mission.
“Concerning the allegation of Islamisation via the OIC, if Gowon, a
Christian, took Nigeria to OIC (and he did) without Islamising Nigeria, if
Obasanjo, also a Christian, attended OIC (and he did) without being Islamised,
if Jonathan, another Christian, also attended OIC (and he did) without being
Islamised, then this allegation is a mere tool constantly and indecently employed
by professional blackmailers. Interestingly, it is used selectively, particularly
when a Muslim is in power.
“We will not succumb to such
cheap blackmail and we have no scintilla of doubt that the EU Parliament which
is full of credible and intelligent democrats as well as other lovers of truth
around the world will see through this gimmick. Do they even think the EU
Parliament is made up of mischievous people like them? Do they think the rest
of the world have not found out the truth about what is going on in Nigeria?
They have merely exposed themselves for what they really are. Petitioning the EU
Parliament with a document loaded with fabrications is petty, demeaning and
unpatriotic.
“We are however miffed by the eagerness of our Christian neighbours
to lie at will just to blackmail Muslim leaders. This clearly amplifies a major
characteristic of the NCEF and its cohorts, namely, failure to practice the
teachings of the scripture.
“One of the injunctions in the Ten Commandments says ‘Thou shall
not lie’ (Exodus 20:16). Leviticus 19:11 says, ‘Do not steal, do not lie, do
not deceive one another’. Proverbs 13:5 refers to liars as shameless people, ‘The
righteous hate what is false, but the wicked make themselves a stench and bring
shame on themselves’. In his letter to the Colossians, Paul advised them
against telling lies, ‘Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your
old self with its practices’ (Colossians 3:9 – 11)
“We urge President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore NCEF’s tantrums and
continue his good work. Posterity will record him as the father of modern
Nigeria, a nation that came out of the ruins of squandermania, moral
debauchery, suicide-instilling roads and epileptic electricity to become one of
the global best in transparency, probity, integrity and infrastructure.
“On a last note, we appreciate majority of Nigerian Christians who
do not peddle or believe these diabolical lies. We reiterate that we are one
with all righteous Christians who follow the teachings of Jesus (peace be upon
him) to the letter. We appeal to Nigerians in general to seize the opportunity
of Buhari’s credible leadership to join hands together with their Muslim
neighbours in buiding a prosperous nation. We remind NCEF that it diminishes
its corporate entity to run down its own country using unfounded allegations
for parochial reasons. NCEF is advised to eschew lies. The world is now a
global village. Therefore, NCEF cannot fool the EU Parliament”.
Professor Ishaq
Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
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