Sultan advises govt to swap Chibok girls with detainees President General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Sultan Saád Abubakar has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to reconsider dialogue with the Boko Haram insurgents. His Eminence spoke in Abuja while opening the 7th Annual National Conference organised by the Muslim Lawyers’ Association of Nigeria (MULAN) in Abuja, with the theme: “Rule of Law and Social Justice: A Panacea for Unity and National Development.” He insisted that the government could only win the war against insurgency through dialogue. Alhaji Abubakar also called on Muslim lawyers to offer free legal services to detained Boko Haram suspects so as to ensure freedom for those who are not connected with the deadly sect. He decried a situation where non-Muslims are kicking against the inclusion of Sharia in the Constitution at the ongoing National Conference, even as he urged Muslims not to oppose provisions that would be of direct benefit to non-Muslims in the Constitution. The Sultan of SOkoto said: “I have said it one million and one times, as far as America, when I delivered a lecture at Harvard University, that the problems of Nigeria is not caused by Muslims. “I want to assure you that we have been doing our best to educate people on what Islam and Muslims stand for and want to do in Nigeria. “I have said one million times, Muslims in Nigeria are not out to Islamise Nigeria because it is not possible. We all know what is said in the Holy Quran. So why should anybody be afraid of the strength of Muslims in this country? “When we come together and we are doing positive things or rightly it is got the development of that community and when a community is developed Muslims, non-Muslims and whoever within that community will be a beneficiary of that development. “When you have good governance, you have good roads, you have good infrastructure; everything is working; it is not only for Muslims, anybody in that area will benefit. “So why can’t we use our population, the strength, the number of Muslims in Nigeria to make positive impact and make positive difference in what we do in this country?” He insisted that no country could win insurgency war without dialogue.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:45:58 +0000
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