National chairman of the Izala sect, Sheikh Sani Yahya Jingir, has said that the fight against insurgencies should be intensified, specifically amongst Muslims and Christians, stressing that that was the only panacea for curtailing it.
Speaking during a national preaching activity of the Islamic sect in Kano, the Jingir lamented that “one cannot understand how human life could become so cheap, while those who are responsible of protecting it seem to have failed or are not well equipped to fight the situation.”
He alleged that the activities of the Boko Haram were a dubious creation of some myopic minds aimed at giving Islam a bad name
“so that Muslims would be the target of harassment, undue treatment and unnecessary arrest and persecution.”
He said: “We are aware that some powerful ungodly minds are behind the activities of the Boko Haram in an effort to tarnish the beautiful name of Islam and its followers; so that Muslims will be denied sensitive positions of power and some professional sectors like engineering, banking, medicine and so many other things.
“But one will agree with me that the number of Muslims killed so far in the whole of this campaign has superseded that of our brothers; nonetheless that is not something to even count, but we should all rise together to ensure that we all defeat the evil minds behind this ungodly act.”
He called for an immediate establishment of a join vigilante in areas where Muslims and Christians lived, saying that “by so doing, the insurgents will rather be on the run, because they will not have any hiding place.”
In his remarks, the Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammed Abubakar Sa’ad, who was represented by the Sarkin Karayen Muradun in Zamfara state, Alhaji Garba Muhammad Tambari, said as traditional leaders they had since directed continued prayers against insecurity in the North.
