Former minister of Petroleum and a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Professor Jibril Aminu has called for the disbandment of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) as the only way to ensure complete peace in Nigeria.

Senator Aminu said to stop Muslim elements from forming a parallel national body that might be called Muslim Association of Nigeria, (MAN) which may not be in the interest of peace, CAN should seize to exist.
Aminu said this while delivering a paper at the ‘Peace Confab’ in Kaduna State.

However, Professor Aminu accused religious leaders of conniving with politicians to perpetrate injustice on the people through sectionalizing their religious faith.

He said Christian and Muslim leaders must ensure that the people get good leadership from their elected leaders, lamenting that Nigerian elites have replaced colonial masters by forcing themselves on the leadership of the country without allowing the people’s choice to prevail whether such choice is an illiterate or a graduate.

According to Aminu, “Similarly, religious leaders of all kind and at all levels and the media are set out to incite violence, intolerance and disharmony, instigating people against all public officers and make sure they are held in their homes.”
“ Yet there are constitutional Courts in every state and locality. We must also ensure that these Courts and the people that did their job are allowed. Most of the problems we have can be settled by an active constitutional Court.”

“Give the women a chance and find out what women in other developing countries are doing. A lot have being said about the youths. I do not believe that as a group, the youths are angry. If they really were, the situation would have been different. After all, they have example of what happened.”
Mahmoud said unless the Northern governors confront Plateau State Governor, David Jona Jang to take after the former Kaduna State governor Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi’s initiatives in solving crisis, the state would continue to live in chaos.

He gave the experience of Kaduna State from 1992 when the Zango-Kataf crises erupted up to when Makarfi looked into the problem from its remote causes and effected lasting peace in the state except for the last presidential elections crisis.

He said, “In 1992 after the Zangon Kataf riot, the same thing happened after every election in Kaduna. The day after election if you go to police force headquarters, you will see at least two thousand people, who are arrested for political violence, after two days they will all be released.”

“ Now that is one problem we have but the two things, I will like to tell you is that in Kaduna State, after all the commissions of inquiry and after the government discovered that it is not possible to punish those behind this crisis either because of the position or because of their political or religious positions, Governor Makarfi decided that why not look at the remote causes of this problems.”

“The remote causes of all the problems were that people of southern Kaduna were tired of emirate system. So, Governor Makarfi administration decided to create chiefdoms in the South and we now have relative peace. I hope all the Northern governors tell Governor Jang of Plateau that the only problem in Jos and the crisis will continue until this is solved.”

“I represented Jos natives during the 2009 inquiry before Ricky Tarfa commission, the only witness we called, Alhaji Sale Hassan said, he was then 69 years old. His grandfather was born in Jos but he is still being called a settler, his children cannot get job in even local government in Plateau State, he collects a certificate where the government recognized him as settler. An Igbo man in Jos is not called a settler, a Yoruba man in Jos is not called a settler but the Hausa /Fulani who settled for over two hundred years, who cannot locate any other place than Jos are called settlers. So if plateau state will take after what Kaduna did I believe the crisis may now be resolved?”

For Joseph B. Daudu, “There is no doubt that the dearth of enlightened and specialized security manpower in Nigeria is not the sole cause of the present inability of the police force to deal with the crisis referred to. The major cause is insincerity and corruption.”
“The later leads to a system collapse as is been witnessed in Nigeria. The Nigeria police force in reality has become a byword for corruption. Police stations have become business centres. The victim in most cases now has to finance the investigation of the crime against him.”
“There are other unpalatable happenings where law enforcement ought to be taken place. Their revelation is not for this forum. All that needs to be said is that the strategy for change and the achievements of results must proceed from the leadership of this country.”

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Prof. Aminu, why not ban SCIA too while you are at it?

mbulela:

Prof. Aminu, why not ban SCIA too while you are at it?

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