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22 Years On Sanusi Beheaded Akaluka by JUSTICE4Nigeria: 6:47pm On Nov 12, 2017 |
— 1995 Beheading of Akaluka: Group To Drag Sanusi To National Conference In search of justice, a group, Council For Eastern Justice, CFEJ, has initiated moves to drag embattled Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to the National conference over the beheading of Gideon Akaluka, an Igbo trader in 1995, and other killings of people of Igbo extraction. Akaluka, a young Igbo trader, allegedly desecrated the Koran. He was arrested after his wife allegedly used pages of the Koran as toilet paper for her baby. After the police locked him up, a group of Muslim fundamentalists broke into the police station cells, beheaded Akaluka, and paraded his bodiless head around the streets of Kano. Sanusi, and eight others were arrested and locked up for the crime, on the orders of the then Head of State, General Sani Abacha. Investigation by the authorities revealed that Sanusi was the kingpin of the murderous gang. CFEJ said through its spokes person, Chief Sylvanus Emeka Okeke said the intention is to draw attention to the series of unresolved killings of Igbos in the North and to seek for justice. “We are doing this to draw the attention of the unresolved and the continuous killings of Igbos in the North under the watchful eyes of Northern Leaders.” According to him, “Akaluka was beheaded in 1995, several other Igbos have been killed in the North and no one seem to have been punished for such dastardly act. This cannot continue to happen if we really want to live as one in this country.” “We want to know what Sanusi knows about the killing and if there are those who knew about it still alive today. We want justice for Akaluka and others and we want the wanton killings of Igbos to stop,” Okeke Said. The group said it is sending a petition to the South East Delegates at the on-going National Conference. Okeke said, “we are sending a petition to the South East delegates at the National conference and we will articulate all the unresolved killings of Igbos in the North.” He noted that, “Ndi Igbos have suffered in the Northern Part of Nigeria. Often times they are killed, their businesses destroyed and no one is held accountable yet we talk of one Nigeria. The National Conference would decide if indeed Igbos are free and save to live anywhere they choose to in our current entrapment called Nigeria. Pointblanknews.com recalled that, Sanusi, an alleged Boko Haram sympathizer, and proponent of the controversial Islamic Bank, played a role in the murder of Akaluka. The Abacha regime locked him up for two years for the murder of Akaluka. Sources hinted that shortly after returning from Khartoum, Sudan where he earned a degree in Sharia and Islamic studies, at the International University of Africa, Sanusi became a recluse and immersed himself in the Koran and became a teacher of the Hadith as espoused by the Wahabbists. Wahhabism is an ultra-conservative branch of Sunni Islam. It is a religious movement among fundamentalist (with an aspiration to return to the primordial fundamental Islamic sources Qur`an, Hadeeth and Scholarly consensus (Ijma)) Islamic believers. Wahhabism was a popular revivalist movement instigated by an eighteenth century theologian, Muhammad ibn Abdal-Wahhab (1703–1792) from Najd, Saudi Arabia. Sanusi, who is alleged to detest the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, because according to him, it is anti-islam, was part of a nine-man clique of extremists who had a huge following. A source said, “when Sanusi returned from Sudan where he associated with very extreme personalities, he was not a happy man. he was treated like an outcast in royal circles because his grandfather, was deposed as Emir of Kano. So his anger grew. “ During that period, the incident of desecration of the Koran by the Akalukas surfaced. According to our source, during that period the Abacha government was not comfortable with the activities of the extremists in Kano, who they view with suspicion. The regime, it was gathered, silently assassinated a lot of them. Said our source “ When Akaluka was locked up, Sanusi and eight others mobilized some extremist mob who stormed the prison and killed Akaluka. The regime identified the masterminds, so mandated its hit squad to eliminate the nine, including Sanusi .” Pointblanknews.com gathered that eight of the masterminds were assassinated by Abacha, but for the intervention of former First Bank chairman, and father of Christmas Day bomber, Alhaji Umar Mutallab and others. “ It was Muttallab and the rest who were heavy sponsors of Islamic activities who prevailed on Abacha to spare Sanusi. They are argued that since he has gone through a lot, treated like a pariah in the royal circles because his grandfather was deposed, he should be spared. So They decided to remove him from Kano to Sokoto where he was locked up for two years.” Said the source It was further learnt that after his release from prison, Sanusi was handed over to Mutallab who pushed him into banking because he(Sanusi) had a degree in Economics from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU). From there he moved to the United Bank for Africa, and the First bank, from where he rose quietly until late President Umar Yar’Adua recruited him to head CBN and spearhead the introduction of the Islamic Bank. 1 Like |
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