Buhari

National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) on Sunday descended heavily on President Muhammadu Buhari over the killing of 11 Christians on Christmas Day.
The Christians were abducted by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
According to reports, thirteen men were shown in a video pleading for deliverance while eleven were eventually killed.
Two of the captives were released because they are Muslims while the remaining eleven were presumably killed due to their Christian faith.
Ten of the Christians were beheaded while the eleventh was shot dead.
While describing the murder as unwarranted and callous, NCEF said Buhari should be held responsible for the uncontrolled atrocities of ISWAP, Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen.
Though Buhari has condemned the killing of those Christians, NCEF said: “If President Buhari is sincere that Islamic terrorists are “godless, callous gangs of mass murderers”, he should immediately reorganise the National Security units that are solely in the control of Muslims from the North of Nigeria in compliance with the Federal Character Principle in Section 14(3) of the 1999 Constitution. However, President Buhari has the opportunity to prove us wrong by ensuring that the murderous Fulani herdsmen from his ethnic group are arrested and prosecuted”.
A statement by the Chairman of NCEF, Elder Solomon Asemota, SAN in Abuja said: “The National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) joins all Christians worldwide to mourn the unwarranted and callous murder of eleven innocent Nigerian Christians on Christmas Day, 2019.
“Timing the gruesome murder of these innocents Christians to Christmas Day was a certain signal of the Islamic insurgents deliberately desecrating the day in which Christians worldwide marked the birth of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world and the central figure of the Christian faith. It was not only a heinous crime, but it was also provocative and insulting.
“The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari responded in a statement that he was “profoundly saddened and shocked by the death of innocent hostages in the hands of remorseless, godless, callous gangs of mass murderers that have given Islam a bad name through their atrocities”.
He further went on to appeal that “We should, under no circumstance, let the terrorists divide us by turning Christians against Muslims because these barbaric killers don’t represent Islam and millions of other law-abiding Muslims around the world”.
“While the President appropriately described the Islamic terrorists, one would require a lot of hope before attaching any sincerity to his statement given the excessive pro-Islamic direction of his government since 2015.
More than any individual, President Buhari should be held responsible for the audacity, expansion, and unbridled atrocities of ISWAP, Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria.
He not only deliberately created the atmosphere for Islamic insurgency to thrive in Nigeria he has adopted “repentant” terrorists into the Nigeria Army.
“In addition, all the terrorists that have been assimilated into the Nigeria Army should be dismissed. At the most they could be constituted into Civilian Task Force if they are willing to help combat terror in the land. No sensible Government, anywhere in the world, adopts terrorists into its Army.
“Our suspicion is that the statement of President Buhari is for the benefit of United States of America which recently placed Nigeria on its Special Watch List (SWL).
NCEF would however take President Buhari by his word that “We should, under no circumstance, let the terrorists divide us by turning Christians against Muslims …” Presently Nigeria is divided under its conflict of ideologies which produced ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS.
The current distress in the country is caused by the conflict between DEMOCRACY and SHARIA ideologies. It is the Sharia ideology that emboldens Islamic terrorists in the country and until it is dismantled as competing National Ideology, the country will not know peace”.
NCEF insisted that the solution to the problem of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria is for Democracy to remain the only national Ideology as designed by the founding fathers of this country adding that If Buhari is sincerely committed to the unity of Nigeria, he should promote Democracy.