NASFAT Condemns Benue Killings
NASFAT unequivocally condemns the senseless killings that have become the order of the
day in Benue,Taraba and Nassarawa States.
In a statement released to the press by the Publicity Secretary of the society, Alhaji Banji
Busari. the President of Nasfat, Engineer Kamil Yomi Bolarinwa, notes that “when we were
about to say Alhamdulilah(appreciation to Allah) over the success being recorded by the
Government in curtailing the activities of the dreaded Boko Haram, Nigerians were again
jolted with the sad news of the killing of some clergymen and several others, yesterday in
Benue State.”
“Islam as a religion holds lives so sacred to the extent that its Holy Book decreed that
whoever kills a soul is like he has killed the entire mankind (Q5:32).”
“While we seek collective efforts of all and sundry to ensure that peace reigns supreme in all
parts of our dear country, caution should however be exercised not to ascribe religious
colouration into this senseless killing. Anyone who breaks law and order should be dealt with
within the ambits of the law, regardless of his race, tribe or religion. Moreover, the
perpetrators have never come out to say they are fighting religious war, so also has no
intelligence report points in that direction. “a criminal is a criminal”. In the same vein, it
would be highly unfair to Nigerian Christians for anyone to ascribe any criminal activity that
may be perpetrated in the Christian dominated south eastern part of nigeria as Christianity
induced.” he concluded.
