JNI warns against ethno-religious colouration of security

AbdulGafar Alabelewe, Kaduna

The apex Islamic body in the North, Jama’atul Nasril Islam (JNI) has warned Nigerians against giving security issues religious, ethnic and political outlook.

Secretary General of the Islamic body, Dr. Khalid Abubakar Aliyu issued the warning in a statement, saying criminal acts are crimes and their perpetrators must be dealt with as criminals. “It doesn’t matter whose ox is gored.”

According JNI scribe, “Issues of security must be accorded all the seriousness it deserves at all levels.

“Nigerians must be careful not to politicise security matters, trivialising them or basing them on ethnic, religious or regional lines.”

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JNI Secretary General also noted that the shocking news of the attempted bombing of a church at Sabon Tasha in Kaduna last Sunday by one Nathaniel Samuel would have been a trigger of another dangerous violent conflict, had it not been intercepted by the Nigeria Police Force, Kaduna would have been on fire by now.

Aliyu however said JNI under the leadership of His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, JNI, is worried and pained by the renewed and escalated magnitude of insecurity in the country generally and the north in particular, through the wanton destruction of lives and property, rampant kidnapping, armed robbery and brigandage, and the menace of drug abuse, and other social vices.

While urging Nigerians to work in synergy in fighting the security challenges faced by the country, Aliyu also called on government to punish accordingly, those whom he described as “unscrupulous elements who are enemies of peaceful coexistence in our dear country.”