Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Friday, asked Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Nanono, to approve a sum of N30m each to build a church and a shrine just as he approved the same amount to build a mosque for displaced Muslim herders.

National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, made this known in a statement titled, ‘HURIWA To Agric Minister: Build A Church And African Shrine Or Be Sued’.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that Nanono came under fire on social media following a leaked memo conveying the approval of N30m for the construction of a ‘Friday’ mosque with taxpayers’ funds.

Following the outrage, the Kano-born minister through his ministry confirmed the leaked memo as being authentic and stressed that it built the mosque for livestock farmers.

Reacting, however, on Friday, HURIWA described the action as “provocative, sectional and unconstitutional”.

The group also rejected the explanation of the ministry, saying it was unacceptable to deploy public fund to promote private religious pursuit in a multi-religious country like Nigeria.

HURIWA said, “This provocative decision apart from being discriminatory and offensive to section 42 (1) of the Constitution is a gross breach of section 10 of the Constitution which prohibits the elevation of ant religion as the State religion.

Section 10 of the Nigerian Constitution says: ‘The Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion, of the Nigerian Constitution’.”

“We are by this public notice, demanding from the minister of Agriculture, that he approves about N30 million each into two places for the building of a Church to be used by displaced farmers in Benue State and a befitting Shrine for use by African traditionalists who are farmers in any part of Southern Nigeria deemed appropriate by the farmers.

“We are giving the minister a week to approve the funds to build a Church and a Shrine or we will mobilise Christian farmers and farmers who are African traditionalists to file a suit against this obviously unconstitutional and discriminatory policy,” the group added.

https://punchng.com/n30m-mosque-huriwa-threatens-lawsuit-says-agric-minister-must-build-church-shrine/

They must also build shrine o.

Omo na mental case
Make we all start to dey craze

They should build shrine too

Shrine is a must

This is a shameful project.

How a ministry of agriculture built a Mosque.
I mean, what is the connection between the two? Absolute nothing.
The best would have been to get an NGO or individual to do the job.

I don't know why most of these Abokis cannot do a job without sounding stupid, from Buhari, Pantami, to AGF, Malami

The atheists also need a huge edifice for their monthly meetings.

Endorsed.
Enough of this useless head slammers madness

But why northern fundamentalist are spoiling this country. On a serious note any ministry has place of worship should be bring down you leave your house to work not to go and worship.

I support this

Those Nairaland terrorists won't like this news at all.

Imagine federal government under Buhari sponsoring and building mosques in every part of Nigeria with Christian tax payers Money.

Government of terrorists.

When we have serious issues threatening the country's existence and the economy is almost in coma, federal government officials are busy engaging in frivolous acts. The other day it was the justice minister making utterances that were below his dignity and today it's a leaked memo from the agric ministry that looks more like a religious.ministry.
I do not think this country has been this low. It's just so sad.

Since the North have gooten a Mosque, The East should be given a Catholic church while the West should be built a Shrine for Ogun