A former Minister of Aviation,
Femi Fani-Kayode, has reacted after federal government asked ex-President
Olusegun Obasanjo to withdraw his recent comments which imputed ethno-religious
motive to Boko Haram, ISWAP, terrorism in the country, as well as apologise to
Nigerians.
Obasanjo on Saturday had decried the high level of insecurity in Nigeria, stating
that the Federal Government alone cannot tackle the menace.
He regretted that both Boko Haram
and herdsmen acts of violence were not treated as they should at the beginning.
According to him, “They have both
incubated and developed beyond what Nigeria can handle alone. They are now
combined and internationalized with ISIS in control.
“It is no longer an issue of lack
of education and lack of employment for our youths in Nigeria which it began
as, it is now West African fulanization, African Islamization and global
organized crimes of human trafficking, money laundering, drug trafficking, gun
trafficking, illegal mining and regime change.”
But reacting in a statement
issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, averred that such “indiscreet, deeply offensive and patently divisive
comments are far below the status of an elder statesman”.
He added that, “It is
particularly tragic that a man who fought to keep Nigeria one is the same one
seeking to exploit the country’s fault lines to divide it in the twilight of
his life”.
The minister stated that Boko
Haram and ISWAP are terrorist organisations pure and simple, adding that they
care little about ethnicity or religion when perpetrating their senseless
killings and destruction.
“Since the Boko Haram crisis,
which has been simmering under the watch of Obasanjo, boiled over in 2009, the
terrorist organisation has killed more Muslims than adherents of any other
religion.
“The terrorist group blown up
more mosques than any other houses of worship and is not known to have spared
any victim on the basis of their ethnicity.
“It is therefore absurd to say
that Boko Haram and its ISWAP variant have as their goal the ‘Fulanisation and
Islamisation’ of Nigeria, West Africa or Africa,” he said.
But in reaction, Fani-Kayode, in
a tweet on Tuesday wrote: “LaiMohammed and @MBuhari should be the last to talk
about Boko Haram or attack OBJ for exposing their Fulanisation and Islamisation
agenda.
“The same Mohammed once said it
was wrong to ban BH and the same Buhari once said an attack on BH was an attack
on the north! Who is fooling who?”
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