Shehu Sani Opens Lid On Killing Of Northern Muslims

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

Civil rights activist and former senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani has opened the lid on the killing of Muslims in the North.

Reacting to the killing of an estimated 51 persons in Igabi Local Government Area on Sunday, Sani blasted northern governors and Islamic leaders for massaging the ego of the Federal Government by shying away from criticizing the failures of the administration.

He alleged that figures of casualties on Muslim victims were being relegated because the Islamic leaders were massaging the ego of governments, while the Christian leaders were speaking out and staging protests.

He said: “Northern governors are still playing the ostrich, afraid of confronting the federal government and taking independent action to protect their people while the killings and the kidnappings go on.

“The pervasive insecurity in the north is reinforced and sustained by the silence and sycophancy of its elites as much as the inaction of the government.

“Muslims are not much being seen as victims of the killings in the north because many Islamic leaders prefer to massage the image of the government in the face of the killings of their followers while Christian clerics are leading protests in the streets.

“The north must wake up, buckle up or perish. When our people are repeatedly and tragically killed or abducted and we speak out, the only response that comes from the Government and its hired agents is that we are ‘politicising the issue of security’.

“Northern governors must come out with a regional security outfit to protect their people or continue to wait for God to do it.

“The level of insecurity in the north has become infectious to the country and contagious to the West African sub-region.”

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