The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has stated that the leaders of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam are complicit in the killings perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen in the nation.
Revd. Musa Asake, the General Secretary of the Christian apex body made this known in a statement replying JNI’s earlier statement which had implicated Christian leaders of promoting the ethno-religious division in the country.
He said, “Instead of facing reality and admitting its ungodly complicity with the Fulani terrorists, the JNI leadership at its press conference held in Kaduna on January 21, 2018, embarked on character assassination, acrimony, vulgar abuse in its futile attempt to justify its ungodly, unpatriotic and wicked support for the murderous Fulani herdsmen who are also enjoying the complicity of the security agencies, whose headships are occupied by the JNI’s cronies at the expense of the unity and progress of our dear country.”
CAN noted that JNI had not condemned the murderous activities of the herdsmen across Nigeria and likened JNI’s attitude to its earlier position on Boko Haram.
Fulani herdsmen are enjoying support from JNI “the way and manner they did for the Boko Haram terrorists when they began thinking they were spreading Islam in the country.”
It added, “It is an open secret that the criminal activities of their boys have gone to the extreme because of the tacit encouragement they are getting from the leadership of the JNI.”