DSS Under Fire For Refusing To Arrest Imam Who Threatened To Kill Christians

Human Rights Writers Affiliation of Nigeria, HURIWA, has berated the Division of State Providers, DSS, over its alleged loud silence and obvious inaction to the unambiguous incitement in opposition to Christians made in a current viral video allegedly by one Ustaz Abubakar Salihu Zaria.

The affiliation described the police inaction as discriminatory, unlawful and completely indecorous.

HURIWA expressed consternation and shock that such a seditious video might have been made by a so-called non secular chief threatening to hold out reprisals on Christians over the current merciless and brutal killing of scores of Moslem travellers in Jos by unknown gunmen, but for almost three days the DSS has missed the sensational and violence-prone Video.

In a press release, the Nationwide Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the Nationwide Media Affairs, Director Miss Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA wonders whether or not the safety forces together with the Nigerian Police had been ready for the threats to be totally executed earlier than it will possibly take any lawful measure to carry the mentioned non secular preacher to justice.

“Can we honourably remind the hierarchy of the DSS as they like to be recognized, that the particular establishment often called state safety companies is a creation of the Nigerian regulation and due to this fact the operatives are to serve all Nigerians equally and must not ever current themselves as both Islamic Police or political police however a nationwide policing establishment.

“We hereby ask them to ask the mentioned Islamic Cleric to say what he is aware of a few future plot to kill Christians in Northern Nigeria ought to any Moslem be killed by hoodlums in Plateau State and likewise discover out why he categorized Plateau State residents all of whom have one faith or the other as infidels. These inciting feedback and the inaction of both the Nigerian Police Power or the DSS are harmful.

HURIWA additionally requested the DSS to elucidate to Nigerians why it invited the Edo State-based Christian chief Pastor Suleiman and the Enugu State based mostly Catholic Priest Fr. Ejike Mbaka after they individually made innocuous statements which within the estimation of DSS had been damaging to Nationwide Safety however similar DSS has gone mute upon listening to a Moslem Cleric make threats in opposition to Christians.

HURIWA puzzled too that President Muhammadu Buhari obtained in viewers the Sheikh from Bauchi whose disciples had been killed by unknown gunmen even after he the Sheikh was quoted in a bit of the media as allegedly threatening revenge and now the identical President and his assault canine have stored mute to this menace in opposition to Christians by the Islamic Cleric.

HURIWA famous that the President via his Media minders had attacked Rt. Reverend Mathew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese for reportedly criticising President Muhammadu Buhari’s silence to the killings of Christians by armed Islamists within the North of Nigeria.

HURIWA mentioned the inaction and loud silence of the DSS to the incitement in opposition to the lives of Christians within the North made by Ustaz Abubakar Zaria contravenes some sections of the Nigerian structure.

The Muslim cleric was quoted as saying partly, “Right here is my message to the infidels in Plateau 2x and to CAN Plateau and to CAN Nigeria basically.

“I’m the one talking, I’m Alkali Abubaka Salihu Zaria.

“I swear to God almighty, if such ever happen once more, there are Christians in Kaduna State, there are Christians in Zamfara State, there are Christians in Sokoto, there are in Katsina, Kebbi, there are Christians in Gombe, Damaturu and Yobe and there are main roads. We can even block the roads and waylay Christian commuters.” The video had alleged.