Former Head
of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida has been accused of starting religious crises
in Nigeria. This accusation was made today by DR Maryam Abdullahi, a delegate representing
Civil Society Organisation, CSO, while making her contribution to the debate on
the report of the conference Committee on Religion, during plenary at the
on-going National Conference in Abuja.
PUNCH online
reports that Dr Abdullahi stated that the former military ruler pushed Nigeria
into membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference, OIC, without the
consent of the people he was ruling. According to Abdullahi, the move made by
Babangida started religious crises in the country. She also insisted that the
relationship between Christians and Muslims deteriorated when Nigeria was
admitted as a full member of Organisation of the Islamic Conference.
Abdullahi
alleged that Babangida pushed for Nigeria’s full membership of OIC in order to
perpetuate himself in office. She insisted that this was the beginning of
mistrust between adherents of the two faiths because of mutual suspicion of
possible Islamization of Nigeria.
It could be
recalled that the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, has killed thousands of
innocent souls across Nigeria especially in the north-eastern part of Nigeria
through terror attacks.
Some of
their recent attacks include twin bomb explosions in Jos, Plateau State,
followed by another bomb blast that happened near a viewing centre in the same
city few days later.
Prior to
these attacks, the insurgent group had also killed hundreds of people in two
separate attacks they carried out at a motor garage in Nyanya, Abuja. On 14
April, the terror group kidnapped no fewer than 276 schoolgirls inside
Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State.
More than
six weeks after the abduction of the girls, the Nigeria government is yet to
rescue the schoolgirls saying they are not ready to negotiate with the
terrorists.
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