The President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Samson Ayokunle, on Monday defended Berom Christians over the Dura-Du pond incident. It will be recalled that the car of a missing Muslim general, Idris Alkali, was found at the bottom of a pond after the army forcefully drained it. More than 500 Berom women had made spirited efforts to stop the army from draining the pond by staging protests half nude near the pond.
Reacting to this development, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) expressed disappointment.
In a press statement signed by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, the organization said, “We note with serious concern that CAN president stopped short of condemning the Berom Christian terrorists. This is very disappointing. It is jejune, puerile and insipid. CAN is defending the indefensible. It would have been better to keep mute if the Christian umbrella body could not denounce or disown its own.
“Why can’t CAN condemn Berom terrorists the same way that Muslims condemned Boko Haram? Nigerian Muslims washed their hands off Boko Haram terrorists even when they attacked Christians. We did not wait until they attacked Muslims before condemning them. But CAN president wants to pamper Berom Christian terrorists even when it is evident that they have been responsible for the killing of hundreds of their Muslim neighbours and other Muslims and Fulanis who were mere travelers passing through the axis.
“Nigerian security agencies were able to encircle Boko Haram terrorists and they were able to restrict their activities to a small area within Borno because Nigerian Muslims wasted no time in denouncing and disowning them. For failing to condemn Berom terrorists, CAN president may be nurturing a killing machine. Berom terrorists are capable of growing into a more vicious terrorist group whose deadly tentacles will spread to all nooks and cranies of Nigeria.
“CAN president is joining forces with Berom women who protested that soldiers should not come near the pond. The women lied that it was their only source of drinking water when there are more than thirty similar ponds around the vicinity. When that failed to stop the soldiers, they tried the superstition angle claiming that strange deaths would start to occur in the community if the pond was drained but this is a community of Christians, not one filled with idol worshippers.
“What has CAN president said about the missing general? What has he to say about the general’s car that was found right at the bottom of the same pond where the wives of terrorists protested deceptively? What of the other four cars that were found inside the same pond? What do the findings mean to him?
“Furthermore, Ayodele was quick to condemn the action of security agents but found it difficult to condemn the Berom Christian terrorists who perpetrated the atrocity. It is double standard of the highest order. We are stupefied.
“To add salt to injury, CAN president referred to the missing general as “a missing ex-soldier”. That is an unforgivable understatement. Ayokunle should know that General Alkali (rtd) is more than an ordinary ex-soldier. This is a whole army general for crying out loud and he dismisses him as “a missing ex-soldier”. General Alkali was the Chief of Administration in the Nigerian Army up till the time of his retirement. We take exception to this attempt to trivialize the issue.
“Afterall we know how CAN regularly mobilizes retired Christian army officers to intimidate the entire nation. While we find no need to do the same thing with retired Muslim officers, we are worried that the CAN president attempted to equate the general with an ordinary recruit.
“We are constrained by the latest development, to caution both serving and retired senior military and police officers who are Muslims to take extra security measures around them, to avoid regimented pattern of life and, where possible, to avoid taking the same routes everyday”.
Speaking further, Akintola urged the army to make safety of Plateau highways its priority. “The Nigerian Army should make it impossible for the Beroms to block the highways in future. It is a barbaric behavior. Community clashes happen everywhere in Nigeria but the combatants have never been known to block the highway and start killing innocent travelers.
“Berom community has taken on Nigerian Muslims. They stop vehicles on the highways, pull out Fulanis and Muslims in such vehicles and kill them. Their vehicles are dumped in the ponds. Another 18-seater bus was found at the bottom of the Dura-Du pond yesterday. Anybody can guess the whereabouts of the occupants. There is no gainsaying at this point that Nigerian Muslims need protection from Berom Christian cannibals.
“This is a very irrational behavior although we are not surprised because any community which jointly participated in the killing, roasting and eating of hundreds of other human beings can never be normal again. We recall the massacre of hundreds of Jos Muslims in 2001 and the gruesome killing of Muslim worshippers (at the Id ground during Salah) whose bodies were then roasted and eaten up in 2011. Nobody was tried for this genocide by Jang’s militia men. Cannibalism has taken its natural toll on Beroms. This community needs to be quarantined for some time in order to undergo rehabilitation. Our hearts bleed for children who are growing up in that community.
“We urge Muslims all over Nigeria to prepare a record of all their missing members for the past twenty years. This can be done through their local mosques. We must collate the statistics of all Muslims who used to pray regularly in our mosques but who disappeared suddenly without explanation or who travelled and did not return. The details should be sent to the headquarters of the Jama’at Nasril Islam (JNI) in Kaduna or to any major Islamic organization closest to the mosque for onward transmission to the JNI.
“In our concluding remarks, we charge the military to sustain its action in the Berom community. The killers and their sponsors must be found and dealt with according to the law. To find General Idris Alkali (rtd) dead or alive is a task that must be done. The Nigerian military has never been known to cowardly abandon a good cause or forsake camaraderie. There is no better way to prove the army’s professionalism and gallantry than in this case. We also call for coordinated security measures that will ensure that the Berom are never able to block Plateau highways again. We urge CAN to rope in its wild Berom terrorists instead of seeking to extenuate their crimes”.
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)

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Agritech:
The President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Samson Ayokunle, on Monday defended Berom Christians over the Dura-Du pond incident. It will be recalled that the car of a missing Muslim general, Idris Alkali, was found at the bottom of a pond after the army forcefully drained it. More than 500 Berom women had made spirited efforts to stop the army from draining the pond by staging protests half nude near the pond.
Reacting to this development, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) expressed disappointment.
In a press statement signed by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, the organization said, “We note with serious concern that CAN president stopped short of condemning the Berom Christian terrorists. This is very disappointing. It is jejune, puerile and insipid. CAN is defending the indefensible. It would have been better to keep mute if the Christian umbrella body could not denounce or disown its own.
“Why can’t CAN condemn Berom terrorists the same way that Muslims condemned Boko Haram? Nigerian Muslims washed their hands off Boko Haram terrorists even when they attacked Christians. We did not wait until they attacked Muslims before condemning them. But CAN president wants to pamper Berom Christian terrorists even when it is evident that they have been responsible for the killing of hundreds of their Muslim neighbours and other Muslims and Fulanis who were mere travelers passing through the axis.
“Nigerian security agencies were able to encircle Boko Haram terrorists and they were able to restrict their activities to a small area within Borno because Nigerian Muslims wasted no time in denouncing and disowning them. For failing to condemn Berom terrorists, CAN president may be nurturing a killing machine. Berom terrorists are capable of growing into a more vicious terrorist group whose deadly tentacles will spread to all nooks and cranies of Nigeria.
“CAN president is joining forces with Berom women who protested that soldiers should not come near the pond. The women lied that it was their only source of drinking water when there are more than thirty similar ponds around the vicinity. When that failed to stop the soldiers, they tried the superstition angle claiming that strange deaths would start to occur in the community if the pond was drained but this is a community of Christians, not one filled with idol worshippers.
“What has CAN president said about the missing general? What has he to say about the general’s car that was found right at the bottom of the same pond where the wives of terrorists protested deceptively? What of the other four cars that were found inside the same pond? What do the findings mean to him?
“Furthermore, Ayodele was quick to condemn the action of security agents but found it difficult to condemn the Berom Christian terrorists who perpetrated the atrocity. It is double standard of the highest order. We are stupefied.
“To add salt to injury, CAN president referred to the missing general as “a missing ex-soldier”. That is an unforgivable understatement. Ayokunle should know that General Alkali (rtd) is more than an ordinary ex-soldier. This is a whole army general for crying out loud and he dismisses him as “a missing ex-soldier”. General Alkali was the Chief of Administration in the Nigerian Army up till the time of his retirement. We take exception to this attempt to trivialize the issue.
“Afterall we know how CAN regularly mobilizes retired Christian army officers to intimidate the entire nation. While we find no need to do the same thing with retired Muslim officers, we are worried that the CAN president attempted to equate the general with an ordinary recruit.
“We are constrained by the latest development, to caution both serving and retired senior military and police officers who are Muslims to take extra security measures around them, to avoid regimented pattern of life and, where possible, to avoid taking the same routes everyday”.
Speaking further, Akintola urged the army to make safety of Plateau highways its priority. “The Nigerian Army should make it impossible for the Beroms to block the highways in future. It is a barbaric behavior. Community clashes happen everywhere in Nigeria but the combatants have never been known to block the highway and start killing innocent travelers.
“Berom community has taken on Nigerian Muslims. They stop vehicles on the highways, pull out Fulanis and Muslims in such vehicles and kill them. Their vehicles are dumped in the ponds. Another 18-seater bus was found at the bottom of the Dura-Du pond yesterday. Anybody can guess the whereabouts of the occupants. There is no gainsaying at this point that Nigerian Muslims need protection from Berom Christian cannibals.
“This is a very irrational behavior although we are not surprised because any community which jointly participated in the killing, roasting and eating of hundreds of other human beings can never be normal again. We recall the massacre of hundreds of Jos Muslims in 2001 and the gruesome killing of Muslim worshippers (at the Id ground during Salah) whose bodies were then roasted and eaten up in 2011. Nobody was tried for this genocide by Jang’s militia men. Cannibalism has taken its natural toll on Beroms. This community needs to be quarantined for some time in order to undergo rehabilitation. Our hearts bleed for children who are growing up in that community.
“We urge Muslims all over Nigeria to prepare a record of all their missing members for the past twenty years. This can be done through their local mosques. We must collate the statistics of all Muslims who used to pray regularly in our mosques but who disappeared suddenly without explanation or who travelled and did not return. The details should be sent to the headquarters of the Jama’at Nasril Islam (JNI) in Kaduna or to any major Islamic organization closest to the mosque for onward transmission to the JNI.
“In our concluding remarks, we charge the military to sustain its action in the Berom community. The killers and their sponsors must be found and dealt with according to the law. To find General Idris Alkali (rtd) dead or alive is a task that must be done. The Nigerian military has never been known to cowardly abandon a good cause or forsake camaraderie. There is no better way to prove the army’s professionalism and gallantry than in this case. We also call for coordinated security measures that will ensure that the Berom are never able to block Plateau highways again. We urge CAN to rope in its wild Berom terrorists instead of seeking to extenuate their crimes”.
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)

No Muslim leader condemned Boko haram in their hey days starting with the Christmas day bombing of St. Theresa's catholic Church, near Abuja. If there was any quote from any Muslim leader to the contrary, kindly post it here.

And muric is romancing Boko Haram

Inasmuch as I don't support killing of my fellow human beings. Where was MURIC when Fulanis were killing People of Plateau State?

I don't blame people when they cast negative aspersions on Yoruba. People like Professor Ishaq Akintola is one of those portraying Yoruba as a green horn

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Why would a sane entity support those people.

Buhari should just give the obasanjo treatment and see if ranting IPOB can do anything

Any group formed for the purpose of defending Christians am in full support. And I will gladly join

I can see this bloody covert terrorist organization, Muric are doing everything in their power to tag plateau citizens defending themselves against fulani terrorist herdsmen as terrorist. To bad for them because it will never work. Plateau citizens are not recognized as a 'Terror group' by any world organizations. Plateau citizens don't go about hacking people to dead, destroying villages, communities and occupying territories across Nigeria. That signature (terror act) belong to fulani herdsmen. Fulani herdsmen are the only group apart from Boko haram known to massacre Inocent villages and occupy their territories. This is the sole reason for Cow Colonies which buhari's govt is desperately seeking to implement across Nigeria. Appropriating people's ancestral lands for fulani occupation.
By the way, are plateau citizens the ones attacking Benue, Taraba, and Zamfara? We all know the bloody group responsible for these activities.
Muric themselves are big supporters of fulani terrorist herdsmen and their genocidal activities.

VERY SOON UN OFFICIALS AND WORLD ORGANIZATIONS WILL VISIT PLATEAU TERRITORIES OCCUPIED BY FULANI HERDSMEN AFTER KILLING AND CHASING AWAY THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OFF.

Something to Think About:
Do you know that fulani terrorist acts are supported by elements of Nigerian Military and backed by govt? Remember rtd General T.Y Danjuma statements? NIGERIANS ARE UNDER ATTACK!!!
Notice how Plateau citizens organizing and defending themselves against fulani terrorist herdsmen have been marked by for total annihilation? Its not new. This is what they do to render people defenseless for terrorist annihilation.
Any ethnic group in Nigeria that says enough is enough, rises up to defend themselves against fulani herdsmen genocidal activities, that ethic group IMMEDIATELY COMES UNDER ATTACK by Nigerian army. They do this by looking for a cause like 'missing general' 'arms mop up' etc to place the entire ethic group under siege.
They did it to Eggon, Tiv's in Nassarawa and Benue. They did it to a community in Niger state when the army went HOUSE TO HOUSE SEARCHING FOR ARMS, ONLY FOR THE COMMUNITY TO COME UNDER ATTACK BY FULANI HERDSMEN THE FOLLOWING DAY.
They did it to Southern Kaduna people. They did same to Jukuns in Taraba. They did same to an ethic group in Adamawa. Now they are stretching their terror tentacles to citizens of Plateau state.

BUT THEY NEVER DID IT TO FULANI HERDSMEN. THE SAME TERROR GROUP RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF CLOSE TO 10,000 LIVES THIS YEAR ALONE!

Amumaigwe:


No Muslim leader condemned Boko haram in their hey days starting with the Christmas day bombing of St. Theresa's catholic Church, near Abuja. If there was any quote from any Muslim leader to the contrary, kindly post it here.

Every Muslim leader in Nigeria condemned boko Haram at the beginning,some were even kill by boko haram for doing that,shaik Albany was an example of that. Like it or not CAN is part of the problem in Jos.

As the days passes by,am more convinced that the genocide serially committed against the minority christian tribes of middlebelt,is a welly organised agenda of the Hausa Fulani muslim north with the aid of Nigerian military and some willing clandestine organizations like muric.
To see how demonic Muric is,there was no mention of the welly documented massacre and serial genocide against the beroms by the privilege government pampered terrorist fulani herdsmen. For muric and other muslim authorities,christian lives doesnt matter.
Nigeria is only postponing the evil day,the unity is bound to collapse,sooner than later. The leadership of this nation has been thrown to the dogs!
Miscreants like muric now speaks for muslims,i spit!

saaron:
I can see this bloody covert terrorist organization, Muric are doing everything in their power to tag plateau citizens defending themselves against fulani terrorist herdsmen as terrorist. To bad for them because it will never work. Plateau citizens don't go about hacking people to dead and destroying villages and occupying territories across Nigeria. That terrorist acts are committed by fulani herdsmen.
Besides, Muric big supporters of fulani terrorist herdsmen and their genocidal activities.
By the way, the third deadliest terror group recognized by UN are fulani herdsman.

So stop cars and killing people and throwing bodies and car in water to cover evidence.And when the authority wanted to investigate the water they send their women to protest claiming that their water is holy to them. If it was a Muslim village that done all this,what will you call them? If a Fulani man kill them,let them go and find Fulani people to fight but is the crime that the Muslims travelers from other states committed against Jos people? Why kill innocent passenger that never live a single day in Jos?

I don't know why CAN is supporting criminals.
The same way CAN has be defending the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of bia-fra terrorist.
The worst part, the same CAN has be defending corruption and the corruption party Pdp.
CAN members are already going to hell fire.

Ibrahimmrfish:

So stop cars and killing people and throwing bodies and car in water to cover evidence.And when the authority wanted to investigate the water they send their women to protest claiming that their water is holy to them. If it was a Muslim village that done all this,what will you call them? If a Fulani man kill them,let them go and find Fulani people to fight but is the crime that the Muslims travelers from other states committed against Jos people? Why kill innocent passenger that never live a single day in Jos?

The armed robbers robbing and killing people on highways across Nigeria Plateau citizens?

buhariguy:
I don't know why CAN is supporting criminals.

I DO NOT SUPPORT THE WICKED AND HEARTLESS ACT SOME HOODLUMS DID IN BEROM but can you show us exactly what CAN said that brought this issue?
And also, I KNOW FOR SURE THAT MOST MUSLIMS SUPPORTED BH IN THEIR EARLY DAYS TILL THEY WENT BESERK; SOMEONE DID TO MY FACE.
However, the perpertrators of this act should be fished out and killed too. Whether Muslim or not, everyone deserves life

Ibrahimmrfish:

Every Muslim leader in Nigeria condemned boko Haram at the beginning,some were even kill by boko haram for doing that,shaik Albany was an example of that. Like it or not CAN is part of the problem in Jos.

The last time i checked,muslim leaders are nt condemning the terrorist fulani herdsmen but rather they have been defending there atrocious act and even working hard to forcefully collect lands from states across Nigeria and hand over to them as grazing reserves!
Dont also forget that El rufai governor of kaduna state once confessed to have paid money to this killer group to stop killing.
...'dont also forget this statement by your leader 'an attack on boko haram is an attack on the north'. I rest my case.

The same MURIC that has never condemned Fulanis killers who have killed over 20 thousand people ..yeye De smell.... And who even told MURIC that it's not Fulanis killers that threw that car in the pond and turned around to tip the Army
..anything is possible with evil people oo

AustineE1:
As the days passes by,am more convinced that the genocide serially committed against the minority christian tribes of middlebelt,is a welly organised agenda of the Hausa Fulani muslim north with the aid of Nigerian military and some willing clandestine organizations like muric.
To see how demonic Muric is,there was no mention of the welly documented massacre and serial genocide against the beroms by the privilege government pampered terrorist fulani herdsmen. For muric and other muslim authorities,christian lives doesnt matter.
Nigeria is only postponing the evil day,the unity is bound to collapse,sooner than later. The leadership of this nation has been thrown to the dogs!
Miscreants like muric now speaks for muslims,i spit!

The current massacre in middle belt is a DELIBERATE ACT OF GENOCIDE MEANT TO ANNIHILATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OFF THEIR ANCESTRAL LAND FOR FULANI OCCUPATION. This is the major reason why buhari's Miyetti allah led govt is desperately pushing for Cow Colonies (Fulani Settements) across Nigeria.

IT HAS BECOME VERY CONVENIENT FOR THEM TO PLACE AN ENTIRE ETHNIC GROUP IN PLATEAU UNDER SEIGE WITH EXCUSE OF A MISSING GENERAL, THE SAME GENERAL THAT WAS FOUND IN A POOL OF HIS BLOOD WEEKS AGO AT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LOCATION.

All the terrorist govt needed was a cause to attack plateau people.

Who gave him the right to condem

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Cherez:

I DO NOT SUPPORT THE WICKED AND HEARTLESS ACT SOME HOODLUMS DID IN BEROM but can you show us exactly what CAN said that brought this issue?
And also, I KNOW FOR SURE THAT MOST MUSLIMS SUPPORTED BH IN THEIR EARLY DAYS TILL THEY WENT BESERK; SOMEONE DID TO MY FACE.
However, the perpertrators of this act should be fished out and killed too. Whether Muslim or not, everyone deserves life

i don't know why CAN is supporting political criminals, kidnappers, corruption, political thugs, corrupt politicians and corrupt political party, election rigging,
They supported Everything evil in this country just because ineffectual buffoon gave them 7b naira to spread propaganda against buhari.

goodnessme1:
we yoruba christians need to rise and do something about our muslim brothers.

Upon all this they are doing just to prove to northern muslim that they are good muslim,yet they are kafir to them.

baby

So said the supervisors of Islam terrotists nationwide.

Just as Buhari is pampering Fulani Jihadists and Herdsmen.!

buhariguy:
i don't know why CAN is supporting political criminals, kidnappers, corruption, political thugs, corrupt politicians and corrupt political party, election rigging,
They supported Everything evil in this country just because ineffectual buffoon gave them 7b naira to spread propaganda against buhari.

I agree entirely that GEJ was clueless,what about PMB?

CAN is supporting criminals now but when you were shouting foul on the proscription of BH, you no know, ba?
Like I've always known, this country belongs to some persons but they should enjoy it while it lasts