The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has revealled the cause of the killing of over 150 people in fifteen local government areas of Plateau State on Christmas eve.
According to him, the killings in some parts of Plateau State which claimed lives of innocent people were not motivated by religious bigotry.
The Sultan said this on Wednesday during the closing ceremony of Intensive Vocational Course (IVC) organised by Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) – A-Zone at the Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium Bauchi.
Abubakar wondered why wanton killings of innocent people and destruction of valuable property continue to inflict damage on Nigerians.
He said there is the urgent need for security apparatus of the country to device proactive strategies and tactics to stop killings of Nigerians before such incidence occurred in the future.
The Sultan noted that such killings are devilish and cannot be attributed to Godly religion, hence the need to stop the narratives that the killers belong to any faith.
He said the spate of insecurity in the country is tied to leadership – political and military – and called on people to give maximum support to leaders for change to materialise in the country.
“It is an issue of leadership and let’s continue having confidence on the leaders that in the next couple of months, things are going to change for good,” he appealed.
He also called on security agencies to ‘up the game’ through intelligence gathering to defeat insurgency, banditry and kidnappings.
I’m highly disappointed in such remarks from a supposed learned individual. Is he claiming not to know the perpetrators of those crimes? For God sake, let’s stop lying to ourselves. It’s not other persons than the fulanis resitting within those environs
I’m highly disappointed in such remarks from a supposed learned individual. Is he claiming not to know the perpetrators of those crimes? For God sake, let’s stop lying to ourselves. It’s not other persons than the fulanis resitting within those environs
All these barbaric act & criminalities will disappear when the State Police is being signed into Law or when every region go on their separate ways.
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I think the only way to stop this killing in Nigeria is to have state police and give power to local government more than federal government
The truth which the sultan don’t want the world know is that the Muslims in the north doesn’t want to coexist with christians in the north, so out of heartless and bad minds the Muslims in the name of bandits, Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram, iswap among other terrorist groups in the north decided to wipe out the Christians in the north. That’s what they are doing in plateau state now and they have been doing it for a long time now in other northern states. The sultan is trying to shield the religious bigotry from the north