Two Islamic organisations were offered $3
million by the past administration to secure
their members support the re-election of ex-
President Goodluck Jonathan, an official has
said.
Abdullahi Shuaib, the Coordinator of the
Conference of Islamic Organisations, CIO,
stated this on Saturday at the 22nd National
Islamic Training Programme NITP, held at
Odosengolu near Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
Mr. Shuaib said the CIO and The Muslim
Congress, TMC, rejected the money after they
were offered under the label of “religious
fund.”
“It is not a secret, they came, offering us over $
3 million,” he said. “We said no….It came
through their proxies to us and we said no. And
today we have been vindicated.”
Mr. Shuaib, who is also the Executive Director/
CEO, Zakat and Sadaqat foundation, an arm of
TMC, added that “it is not even part of our own
culture to take bribe. We prefer to go hungry
than to collect a bribe from somebody and
then eat what is unlawful”.
Expatiating on why the money was rejected,
the official added that “because we know very
well that it was bait; it was a poison and you
cannot eat and dine with the devil and think the
devil will not come after you.
“We said clearly no. It is completely un-Islamic.
All those organisations that actually took and
swallowed the bait, today, they all know what it
means for them to have allowed the devil and
themselves to eat and dine with the devil.
Nigeria’s former National Security Adviser,
Sambo Dasuki, who is currently being
prosecuted for mismanagement of about $2.1
billion security funds allegedly gave over N4
billion of the money to ex-governor of Sokoto
State, Attahiru Bafarawa, to distribute to
Islamic organisations.
Apart from Messrs. Dasuki and Bafarawa,
others being prosecuted in the scandal include
ex-PDP Chairman, Haliru Mohammed, and
Raymond Dokpesi, the owner of Daar
Communications.
Mr. Shuaib condemned all those who collected
the funds from the ex-NSA.
“It is morally wrong, it is unethical for any
organisation, either Muslim or Christian or
traditionalist to have indulged in that reckless
looting of treasury, the common wealth and
there is no way they can exonerate themselves
because they have desecrated the house of
God because they symbolise the House of God
and they have desecrated it and it is a sacrilege
and it is wrong.
“Ethically it is wrong, morally it is wrong,
socially, it is wrong, economically it is wrong,
legally it is wrong. And I think, we should allow
the long arm of the law to catch up with them
and let the law take it cause over them.”
Reject Corruption
At the formal opening of the programme on
Saturday, the President of TMC, Luqman
AbdurRaheem, listed bad governance,
corruption, and godlessness as some of the
factors responsible for the challenges facing
Nigeria.
He said the problem will remain until Nigerians
imbibe positive attitudinal change in their
activities.
“Our change is different from the APC’s change
and PDP’s transformation agenda. Rather it is
more all-embracing because change in Islam is
rooted in morality, piety and goodness.
“‘We need Muslims with a clear change vision, a
comprehensive Da’wah programme, having
fixed priorities and well defined strategies to
change Nigeria for the best,’’ AbdurRaheem
said.
On Boko Haram, Mr. AbdurRaheem said the
TMC and other Islamic organisations in
Southern Nigeria have used education to defeat
extremism.
“If you look at The Muslim Congress and other
responsible Islamic organizations in the South
West, you see that we have been able to give
our youth proper education,” he said. “So, it is
very difficult to lure Muslims in South West to
some of these criminal activities because all
our organizations are registered by
government.”
“There is need for collaboration and idea
sharing, that is why we are not limiting our
activities to South West. As we speak, we have
established a branch in Abuja, a branch in Niger
and within the last week we are also working
with our brothers in Yobe State who have seen
the need to associate with the responsible
Islamic organization.”
The cleric also made reference to the clash
between the Nigerian Army and the Shiites
community in Kaduna in which scores of the
group’s members were killed.
“We are not anti-state. Any organization that is
anti-state, it means building a state within a
state, and that is terrorism. We should respect
military; we should respect the police, because
they are there to protect lives and property.
“Once you said you don’t recognize them, then
you have problem. That is what happened to
Shiites in Nigeria. So, you don’t indoctrinate
your people.
“Let them be informed, let them be educated.
So that where you and government clash on
ideological ground, you go to court.”
“For instance, if you look at the issue of Hijab,
we are court, with some other organization.
But in some part of the world, they will start
demonstrating, killing, causing commotion, that
is terrorism. We don’t allow that in our own
organization.”
In his lecture on the theme of the camping
programme -‘Change: The Islamic Approach’,
the guest speaker, Abdulateef Sulaiman, asked
Nigerians to be patient and ready to bear the
consequences, pains and sacrifices resulting
from positive change.
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CAN turn

ademega:
CAN turn

CAN cannot fall hand nah. Them go collect, ask for more join sef!

CAN CAN'T... It's that obvious. With all de wembley new designs and the tourism GEJ gave during last days? Gba gbe e

They know GEJ will not come out to tell us whether they collected it or rejected it ;DD


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