Kaduna Govt is pregnant with 5 evils: injustice, oppression, etc―MURIC

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has, on Wednesday, declared that the Mallam Nasir El-Rufai–led Kaduna State government is with ingredients of five evils.

This was contained in a press statement signed by MURIC Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.

MURIC said this while reacting to the pronouncement of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) an insurgent group by the state government.

Professor Akintola, quoting Chamberlain, referred to the five evils as brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution.

He said: “Kaduna government is pregnant with ingredients of all the five evils which Chamberlain spoke about, viz, brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution. 

Rejecting the notion by Kaduna State Government that IMN is an insurgent group, MURIC stated that “The new declaration is nothing short of calling a dog a bad name in other to hang it.

“Kaduna State government is being economical with the truth, killing a fly with a sledge hammer and engaging in executive tyranny,” he said.

MURIC noted that the pronouncement is “Coming shortly after a competent court of law ordered the release of the IMN leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky from detention, this stigmatization is just another attempt by the state government to jump the gun. 

“The declaration is short in equity, long in injustice,” MURIC adjudged.

Akintola also reminded El-Rufai of the events leading up to the insurgence of Boko Haram, asking: “Was this not how Boko Haram started?

“Police brutality and extra-judicial killing of the group’s leader caused its metamorphosis into a terror machine.

“But is it the police alone that are facing the consequences today?”

He further noted: “Why is it that the only thing men learn from history is that they learn nothing from history? 

“Kaduna has not learnt anything from the Boko Haram phenomenon. 

“Kaduna has chosen to prove both Hegel and Karl Marx right in their postulate that history always repeats itself,” he added.

MURIC decides that this new label should be reserved for an otherwise pacific organization. 

It also commended the leadership of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) for its efforts in resolving the IMN debacle and the maturity it has manifested in handling the matter. 

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