3rd August, 2024
PRESS RELEASE:
IGNORE PROTESTERS' INVITATION TO TAKE OVER: MURIC TELLS NIGERIAN
ARMY
A viral video clip showed a section of protesters
yesterday calling on the army to take over the government. However, an Islamic
human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has advised the
military authorities to ignore the call. The human rights group described the
call as revealing, defeatist and escapist.
MURIC's comment came on Saturday, 3rd August,
2024, via its Founder and Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The full statement reads:
"A
section of protesters yesterday was seen singing praises of soldiers who were
on duty to maintain law and order. They sang and danced, calling on the army to
take over the government.
"MURIC strongly condemns this behaviour. It
is a shameful abuse of democratic norm, recklessness in the use of free speech
and articulated thoughtlessness. Such an invitation to the army to take over
government can only come from people suffering from NAFDAC-certificated
ignorance and desertification of civilized demeanor.
"Notwithstanding, this development is as
revealing as it is defeatist and escapist. The call has exposed where the
organisers of the protest are coming from. It also confirms the narrative pushed
by the security agencies ab initio that
infiltrators were standing by to unleash anarchy on Nigeria if the ongoing
protest was allowed.
“The
protests could have been banned outrightly but the president, being a true
democrat and an activist himself, allowed the protesters to come out to have
their say.
"The Nigerian security agencies have now been
proved right. By extending open invitation to the army to take over government,
some of these protesters have proved that they are anarchists. By burning and
looting, the protesters have proved that they are not peaceful protesters but
rioters and insurrectionists of the Trump political chromosome.
"They came with only one agenda, namely, to
topple a legitimately and democratically installed government. The West must
not ignore this fact. People openly calling on the army to take over government
in Nigeria are undisguised threats to democracy, the rule of law and free
speech. Calling for military coup in Nigeria creates scenarios similar to those
of Chad and Niger in recent time. It poses serious threat to Western interests
as well.
"We therefore call on the Federal Government
to deal decisively with troublemakers among the protesters (within the ambits
of the law). It is treasonable to invite the army to topple a constitutionally
and democratically elected government. Those who can be identified in the video
must be dealt with in order to serve as deterrents.
"MURIC
advises the Nigerian Army to ignore this ignoble, repugnant and unsolicited
invitation. It is the work of desperate politicians and bad losers. Nigerians
will continue to respect a completely professional army. Military rule is out
of fashion and it can only open a tsunami of sanctions on this country. The
call to the army is not only archaic and anachronistic, it is also myopic
and parochial.
#NigerianArmy
#IgnoreCoupInvitation
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Founder/Executive Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC).
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