NSCIA petitions IG, DSS, demands pastor’s interrogation for inciting sermons
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has asked the Federal Government to take immediate actions on Rev. Fr. Godfrey Igwebuike Onah over alleged hateful sermon.
The organization said the sermon led to attacks on innocent Muslims in the South-East and South-South geo-political zones.
The NSCIA raised these views in two separate petitions sent to the Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu and the Director-General, Department of State Services.
The petition titled, “Complaint on Rev. Father Godfrey Igwebuike Onah’s hateful sermon and its consequent murder of Muslims and destruction of their property in the South-East and South-South zones of Nigeria’, was signed by the Deputy Secretary General of the NSCIA, Prof. Salisu Shehu.
He recalled that in a letter dated 6 Rabiul-Awwal, 1441AH, (October 23, 2020, they urged the organizations to specially protect the lives, property and places of worship of Muslims living in the South-South and South-East.
‘Mosques including very ancient ones built by Indigenous Igbo Muslims were burnt. Rather than abating, the persecution and violence against Muslims in the said two zones have persisted with greater intensity”.
The petition added that the recurrence of the kinds of incessant arson and massacre of Muslims in the South-East and South-South if left unchecked could ignite reprisals in other parts of the country, especially the North.