By Henry Obetta
LAGOS— THE Centre for Public Accountability, CPA, in collaboration with Coalition of Civil Society Organisations, yesterday, warned towards inciting spiritual and tribal intolerance in Nigeria following controversies by the US Authorities to invade the nation.
Recall that US President Donald Trump had threatened to invade Nigeria over the alleged killings of Christians.
Talking at a information convention in Lagos, Convener of the group, Mr Declan Ihekaire, lamented that many Nigerians have continued to make damaging feedback on such a delicate subject which may additional worsen the nation’s safety challenges.
Ihekaire stated: “What’s sacrosanct on this subject is that the unity of Nigeria should be preserved. We categorically reject the divisive and inflammatory declare that the insecurity ravaging components of the nation is completely focused at Nigeria’s Christian inhabitants. Such narratives are harmful, simplistic, and intentionally engineered to inflame spiritual tensions.”
He defined that insecurity in Nigeria is a nationwide drawback, not a Christian, Muslim, or ethnic drawback, including that it stays a risk to each citizen and should be addressed holistically, with out bias, sentiment, or political colouration.
He stated: “These behind terrorism and insurgency — and their sponsors — are deliberately attacking sure Christian-dominated communities in sure areas, not as a result of the disaster is spiritual. These individuals intention to control feelings, gas sectarian suspicion, and fracture nationwide unity.
“On the similar time, Muslim-majority communities within the North have additionally suffered devastating assaults, with 1000’s killed or displaced,” he stated.
He famous that Nigeria has continued to face critical safety challenges — terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, communal clashes, and organised criminality despite efforts by the Federal Authorities.
He stated: “Let or not it’s clearly acknowledged that President Bola Tinubu inherited a safety structure already weakened by years of insurgency, underfunded establishments, and a dangerously porous border system. These issues didn’t come up at present, they usually definitely didn’t originate below this administration.
“There’s little question that Tinubu has needed to confront, head-on, a deeply entrenched disaster that has festered for greater than a decade.
“It’s, due to this fact, unfair, deceptive, and politically motivated for anybody — overseas or native — to counsel that the continuing killings throughout the nation started lately or that they’re the results of negligence by the present administration.”
On his half, the Nationwide Secretary Marketing campaign for Democracy, Mr Olufemi Lawson, counseled the Ministry of Inside for its daring revolutionary.
He stated: “The Digital surveillance, id administration methods, together with enhanced passport processing reforms, and improved information integration throughout safety platforms by the ministry have helped to handle insecurity. These initiatives signify the form of forward-thinking safety modernisation Nigeria urgently requires.”
Additionally talking, one other Convener of the Group, Mr Gbenga Soloki, who stated there’s a want for full intervention on insecurity by each Nigerian involved, stated: “Whereas we acknowledge the progress made to this point, we additionally problem the Nigerian authorities to accentuate efforts in figuring out, pursuing, and apprehending the masterminds of insecurity — together with financiers, informants, collaborators, and overseas enablers, conducting thorough investigations into the financial, political, and exterior pursuits benefiting from the extended insecurity, strengthening community-based intelligence methods, empowering conventional establishments, and bettering native policing frameworks.”
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