The
IPOB group has called on the DSS to extend its invitation to Kaduna
State governor and the daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari who it
claimed had all made inciting comments about Nigeria.
Apostle Suleman
In an official statement issued by IPOB’s spokesmen, Barrister Emma
Nmezu and Dr Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya, the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB), has condemned in totality the invitation of Apostle
Johnson Suleiman of Omega Fire Ministry by the Department of State
Services (DSS).
The group called on the DSS to extend such invitation to Kaduna
State governor, Nasir El Rufai, daughter of Presdient Muhammadu Buhari,
Zahra and the Sultan of Sokoto, who, it claimed had all made inciting
comments about Nigeria.
Read the group's statement in full.
“The DSS who unilaterally and illegally assumed the name
“Department of State Services (DSS),“ has invited Apostle Suleiman
because he advised members of his church to exercise their UN-approved
and inalienable fundamental human right of self-defence if attacked by
Islamic terrorists. It is worthy to note that this invitation by the SSS
came after the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, called for
the arrest of Apostle Suleiman.
"We recall that in 2016, when a website published a message
from Zahra Buhari, then 21-year-old and daughter of Muhammadu Buhari, in
which she stated as follows: “killing will keep going on, muslims who
donts (sic) want to adhere to Muslims rules will be killed, christians
will die until they turn muslims, biafrans is just a say (sic) dream,
politcal oppositions must follow my daadys (sic) rule.
"We also recall that in 2016, the Sultan of Sokoto ordered
Muslims in Nigeria to fight anyone trying to stop them from practising
Islam without giving details of what he meant by “trying to stop them.“
"In a tweet in 2012, Mallam Nasir El Rufai stated as follows:
“We will write this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not, that kills
the Fulani takes a loan repayable one day no matter how long it takes.”
"We further remind the world that the public relations officer
of Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Mr Yakubu Kuzamani, accused
Mallam Nasir El Rufai of engaging in hate speech while El Rufai was
speaking on an Aljazeera Television programme on Tuesday, 17th of
January, 2017.
"In all these three examples, the common thread is hate speech
and incitement of Muslims against non-Muslims. But in all the three,
none of the perpetrators of the hate speeches has been invited by the
SSS.
"Then, why is Apostle Johnson Suleiman being singled out for
investigation by the SSS? Why did the SSS not invite Zahra Buhari (now
Mrs Zahra Indimi) for her hate speech? Why did the SSS not invite Alhaji
Sa’ad Abubakar III, Sultan of Sokoto, for his hateful and inciting
speech? Why has the SSS not invited Mallam Nasir El Rufai for his hate
speech that was even condemned by SOKAPU?
"We are appalled that the National Assembly of Nigeria has not
called the SSS to order as they engender tyranny and religious bigotry.
Why will the National Assembly keep quiet as the SSS allow those with
Islamic linkage to freely dish out hate speeches and incitements to
commit violence while inviting Christians like Apostle Johnson Suleiman
who resort to universally-acclaimed rights to self-defence?
"The indifference by Nigeria’s National Assembly is a key
reason why Africa, in general, and the black race, in particular, are
underdeveloped and filled with dictators and life-presidents.
"It is also very worrisome that Theresa May and her British
Government do not see anything wrong with the current persecution of
Christians in Nigeria.
"This is the same Theresa May who spoke through Boris Johnson
to plead for Christians implicated in the failed coup in Turkey. We also
remind the world that it was the British that brought Anglicanism to
Nigeria but is now working with Muslems to exterminate Christians.
"We also recall that Catholicism came from Rome (Italy),
Pentecostalism and Baptist Mission came from the USA, the Lutheran
church came from Germany, and Presbyterian and Methodist missions came
from Scotland. These countries have their Embassies/Missions in Nigeria
but have all kept silent as Muslims go on a rampage against Christians,
now culminating in the invitation of Apostle Johnson Suleiman to SSS
Headquarters in Abuja for questioning and possible long-time detention.
"With the silence of these countries, we are bound to ask if
they are only interested in the money they make from church members in
Christendom in Nigeria. Why must Muslims be the only people with the
unfettered license to hate speech and violence?
"Why is the British Government so intensely glued to Islam and
highly supportive of their violent ways? What is it in Islam that the
British Government enjoys that they are always supporting Islamic
countries but working against existing Judeo-Christian nations or those
agitating for their nations such the Biafrans?
"Why is the British Government so much in love and in bed with
Islam and radical Islamism? Why will the British Government, a
supposedly Christian faith based Government, keep quiet and watch
Apostle Johnson Suleiman railroaded into the SSS detention cell, come
Monday, January 30th, 2017?
"The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) call upon humanity to
prevail upon the British Government, who we all know dictate what
happens in Nigeria, to stop their anti-Christian behaviour towards
Christians in Nigeria and that they should request the SSS to call off
the planned questioning and detention of Apostle Johnson Suleiman.
"If there are people that should be invited by the SSS with a
view to questioning and detention for hate speeches, they are Zahra
Buhari-Indimi, Sultan of Sokoto (Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III), and Mallam
Nasir El Rufai. Doing otherwise is pure hypocrisy.”
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