Re: NSCIA Slams CAN Over Federal Judicial Service Commission Appointments – By NSCEA

NSCIA Accuses CAN of Campaign of Calumny Over Federal Judicial Service Commission Appointments – By NSCEA

WHY AN EXTREMELY VEXATIOUS AND TENDENTIOUS VITUPERATIONS FROM THE NIGERIAN SUPREME COUNCIL FOR ISLAMIC AFFAIRS (NSCIA)!!!“

You’re A Serial Liar, One Billion CANs Can’t Kill The Light Of Islam”—Nigeria’s Islamic Council Attacks Christian Association -NSCIA

Sahara Reporters, New York
on Monday, reports, NSCIA said, “CAN complains of marginalisation while members of the NSCIA also suffer the same.”

Further, “The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has slammed the Christian Association of Nigeria over its reaction to the shortlisting of 20 Justices-designate by the Federal Judicial Service Commission.” In a statement on Monday, the group said CAN complains of marginalisation while members of the NSCIA also suffer the same.

The Islamic group accused the leadership of CAN of exhibiting hatred for Islam and destructive propaganda against the religion.
The statement partly reads:

“The attention of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has been drawn to the insinuations and vituperations that trailed the shortlisting of 20 Justices-designate by the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC).

“The Council has joined issues with the Christian Association of Nigeria, saying  “This is because CAN has proved, times without number, its morbid hatred for Islam and Muslims, its remarkable capacity for destructive mischief, its dexterous use of scurrilous propaganda and its predilection for always being economical with the truth as part of the sinister strategy of heating up the polity anytime a Muslim is at the helm of affairs. “

According to NSCIA, “It would be recalled that not too long ago, the Council was forced to expose the marginalisation of Muslims in the successive Boards of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) after CAN made one of its wild and mendacious allegations of Christian marginalisation.

“It is actually a wicked strategy and unholy tactics to accuse Muslims of marginalisation though Muslims are the ones being deliberately and systemically marginalised by Christians, who continue to consolidate on the colonial agenda of emasculating Muslims. However, NSCIA would not allow the serial falsehood of CAN and its propensity for character assassination of people on the basis of their religious identity to stand because the truth is irrefragable.”

NSCIA further said, “To wit, the intransigence of CAN is playing out again in the deliberate distortion of the issues surrounding the shortlisted 20 Justices-designate. The grouse of CAN, as amplified by some hagiographers masquerading as opinion leaders, is that 13 of the 20 recently shortlisted Justices are from the North and are Muslims.

“Though the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, on her honour stated unequivocally that the procedure of the appointment followed ‘due and usual process’ and that the recommendation ‘was done without any preference for tribe, creed or association’ , mischief-makers, ethnic jingoists and religious bigots resorted to blackmail.

“In venting their spleen against the development, CAN especially and its apologists choose to ignore the fact that Muslims are a minority in the religious composition of the Court of Appeal. In a statement filled with bile and bigotry, the so-called religious body expressed its “feelings of sadness, disgust and anger at the insensitivity demonstrated by the FJSC in compiling the list. It seems undeniable that the recklessness displayed by the FJSC suggests a steady and gradual descend (sic) to (sic) a process of Islamising the Judiciary of Nigeria.

According to NSCIA, “For the purpose of hindsight, Muslims have over the years been bearing their persecution and marginalisation in Nigeria with religious patience and dignified forbearance without the NSCIA heating up the polity, occupying public spaces or inciting confrontation with constituted authorities.

NSCIA further stated: “As far as those who run the affairs of CAN are concerned, Nigeria may as well descend into war since, in their demonic calculations, they will dominate Muslims with the support of their foreign friends and turn Muslim lands to a vast wasteland as obtainable in some Muslim-majority countries. They fail to realise that the war they are intent on dragging Nigeria into ultimately does not decide who is right but who is left and that no soldier in the real sense ever survives a war as something dies in him while fighting….

Muslims can no longer tolerate the psychological terrorism of those whose stock-in-trade is the campaign of calumny and bigoted propaganda anytime a Muslim happens to be at the helm of affairs in Nigeria. This is the way forward at this time as the vilification of Muslims by CAN can only be redressed by publishing the statistics and letting the world know who is marginalising who.” And on, and on, and on

In reaction, at Nigerian Supreme Council for Ecclesiastical Affairs (NSCEA), Bishop Funmilayo Adesanya–Davies, the Secretary General to the Elders’Council of NSCEA, says, “We at NSCEA believe that the above statements  credited to NSCIA, would be unlikely as the offensive swear words of language use in context and dictions are extremely fowl, dirty, unreligious and ungodly.” Why would NSCIA deteriorate into using such immature language and unprintable words.

For instance, NSCIA states: “CAN dexterous use of scurrilous propaganda and its predilection” and “its wild and mendacious allegations”
“The grouse of CAN” and “serial falsehood of CAN” and
“mischief-makers, ethnic jingoists and religious bigots resorted to blackmail.”

In reply, she added, that not only humans on earth would be disappointed at such language used and choice of words if this emanates from NSCIA; but God in heaven would be dissatisfied as it’s appalling, and as such NSCIA needs no much reply.

We could only advice, “NSCIA to stop being parochial, amoral, rude, insultive and highly abusive and sheathe-their-sword which is well known, whether physical, psychological or in speaking, writing and acting characterized by affronting rudeness, insolence, while they also stop making mountains out of mole hills.

Points could be made without throwing tantrums, insults and aggression and “A word is enough for the wise!”, they say – NSCEA

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CAN Hits Back At Islamic Council Over Appointments, Accuses It Of Pushing To Islamise Nigeria

April 11, 2021
Sahara Reporters, New York
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CAN fired back, noting that the Judiciary was the appendage of NSCIA under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, especially throughout his first term. It also alleged that members of the Islamic council were in charge of affairs.

The Christian Association of Nigeria has described the attack by the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs on the hijab crisis and appointment of Appeal Court Justices as evasive.

NSCIA recently attacked CAN for opposing the nomination of 13 Northerners/ Muslims out of the 20 jurists listed as Court of Appeal Justices.

However, as a reply in full, “It was said that, the Christian body in a statement on Sunday by Joseph Bade Daramola, its General Secretary, CAN fired back, noting that the Judiciary over the years has been on appendage of NSCIA under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, especially throughout his first term.

It also alleged that members of the Islamic council were in charge of affairs. The statement fully noted: “Our attention has been drawn to a press statement issued by the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) where the Council used vulgar, immature language and unprintable words to describe the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in its bid to justify the obvious lopsided appointments of the Federal Government in favour of its members. The Council was smart by half when it picked an example of just one arm of government without addressing the totality of fundamental questions on all the arms of government.

“The NSCIA evaded those troubling issues that are well known not only to Nigerians but members of the international community; those knotty issues that have pushed our country on the edge of the precipice.

“By doing so, NSCIA has unwittingly exposed itself as a promoter of bad governance, divisiveness and injustice in Nigeria under the Buhari administration.

“Why did the Council remain evasive on the big issue of the Court of Appeal? Interestingly, there was never a time when CAN ever attacked or made a veiled reference to NSCIA over the obvious lopsided appointments in the country.

“CAN’s concern has always been directed at the Federal Government as a concerned non-governmental group but NSCIA as an underdog of government rather took it upon itself to speak for the government. We wish the Council had allowed the government to speak for itself.

“We all know how they removed Justice Walter Onnoghen from office without following due process. But for the critical section of the polity including the likes of Col. Umar Dangiwa, the incumbent President of the Court of Appeal would have been denied her succession privilege and right. We didn’t see NSCIA on the list.

“Is it falsehood or character assassination that the Security Council of the country has remained an appendage of NSCIA under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari?

“The Constitutional position is that all of us, Christians and Muslims are stakeholders in this country, and votes were not collated on the basis of religion.

“So for the government to bend or lean towards Muslims in its appointment of Security Chiefs is unconstitutional and doesn’t take into consideration the varied interests of other ethnic and religious groups.”
According to CAN, the Muslim North has a tradition of focusing on pushing a religious agenda in a multi-ethnic society like Nigeria at the expense of developmental issues.

It said, “Up till today, it is those things that cannot bring development in education that the NSCIA members are still fighting for such as the wearing of hijab in schools started by Christians and are still largely being maintained by them. Will a girl wearing hijab be more brilliant in school than the rest of her counterparts? They have forgotten that till today, we are not mounting pressure on the government to introduce the Christian culture to the Islamic schools.”

The CAN insisted that Nigerian government under Buhari has favoured only one religion, saying, “NSCIA claims that it “would not allow the serial falsehood of CAN and its propensity for character assassination of people on the basis of their religious identity to stand because truth is irrefragable.”

“We demand answer for the following:

Is it falsehood or character assassination that the Security Council of the country has remained an appendage of NSCIA under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari? The Constitutional position is that all of us, Christians and Moslems are stakeholders in this country, and votes were not collated on the basis of religion. So for the government to bend or lean towards Muslims in its appointment of Security Chiefs is unconstitutional and doesn’t take into consideration the varied interests of other ethnic and religious groups. That is why those who oversee the security architecture are failing because those who are responsible for the killings, banditry and kidnapping in the country share same faith with them.

“Whereas, if the monopoly is broken even as widely canvassed by eminent political and opinion leaders of Islamic faith, surely the prevailing ugly security situation in the country would have been a thing of the past, or at worst reduced to the barest minimum. But a situation where hunters and robbers draw from the same source can never yield any good result!

“We dare either the Federal Government or its self-appointed spokespersons, NSCIA, to publish names, state of origins and religions of the appointments by President Buhari into the following offices since 2015 to date: Ministers of Defence, Police Affairs and Interior, the National Security Advisers (NSA), the Inspectors-General of Police, Director-Generals of the Security Service, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA); Chairmen, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); the Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA); the Comptrollers-Generals, Nigerian Customs Service, Nigerian Immigration Service, Nigerian Correctional Service, Federal Fire Service, and Commandant-General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC). Out of all these, maybe only one or two are Christians and from the South!

“Others are the Accountant-General of the Federation, all heads of the agencies and parastatals. The whole world will then know the agent of falsehood and character assassination between CAN and NSCIA. The grand plan of subtle Islamization is to make a Muslim the head of every key board, committee, parastatal and put Christians under without much influence in the decision-making process in the establishment (irrespective of their number).

“Cases of this abound severally. This observation of the Christian Association of Nigeria has been recently strengthened by the ‘2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria’ of the US Department of State. In the report, it was stated that, ‘traditional relationships were used to pressure government officials to favor particular ethnic groups in the distribution of important positions and other patronage.’”

The Christian body also noted that the North, which it says has a history of focusing on Islamic/Arabic education was now complaining about Christians occupying some positions that western education had earned them.

It said, “We need to go back to history to understand why in the early years of the emergence of our country as a nation, more Christians were eligible for employment into the public service.

“Where were the members of NSCIA in the 1800s when Western Education was brought to this part of our world and Christians in the Northern and Southern parts of the country were sending their children to schools? Were they not sending theirs to Arabic and Q’uranic schools? Was it Arabic or Qur’anic studies that they would use to get appointment to government offices and the courts? Were they not opposing self-rule initially when the Southerners moved the motion for it because they were not prepared educationally for it?”

In another development,
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says that the Federal Government will not “rest until we regulate the social media language. I can assure you that we will not rest until we regulate the social media, and use of wrong language otherwise, nobody will survive it,’’ he also said that certain reports that he “sneaked out of Nigeria to meet with Twitter executive’’ in the U.S. is fake.

Mainwhile, an Anti-social Media Bill was introduced by the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 5 November 2019 to criminalise the use of the social media in peddling false or malicious information. The original title of the bill is Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill 2019.

Bishop Funmilayo Adesanya–Davies,
Secretary General  Elders’Council,
NSCEA.