Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has urged
Nigerians to stop behaving like animals.
Fani-Kayode said this while condemning the killing of innocent
travellers on a major highway in Jos, Plateau State, over the weekend.
He prayed for the souls of those that were killed in Jos to
rest in peace and for those that murdered them in cold blood to be brought to
justice.
The former minister, who also commiserated with the families
of the deceased, called for peace, calm and restraint on all sides in Plateau
State and indeed throughout the country.
In a series of tweets on Monday, Fani-Kayode said, “You
target a group of innocent and defenceless Hausa Fulani Muslims who were on
their way home after worshipping their God and you slaughter them like Sallah
rams. Your defence is that these were reprisal killings for the slaughter of
your Christian brothers and kinsmen by a group of Fulanis at an earlier date.
My questions for you and those that are egging you on and clapping for you are
as follows:
“Were those innocent travellers you butchered part of those
that killed your Christian brothers and kinsmen at the said earlier date?
“Do two wrongs make a right?
“Is it the Christian way to target innocent and defenceless
people who have done you no wrong and who present no threat and subject them to
mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide?
“I have condemned the targeting and mass murder of
Christians by Muslims consistently over the years & I have expressed
outrage about this every time it happens. Am I supposed to keep quiet &
relish it when it happens the other way around & when Christians murder
Muslims simply because I am a Christian? Are we not all human beings with blood
flowing through our veins and are these people not our compatriots? There is no
reason on earth why I would not condemn the mass murder of Muslims by
Christians as well & anyone that expects me to keep quiet & not
wholeheartedly condemn it when such barbarity is visited upon any of my
compatriots does not know FFK. We must stop behaving like animals & start
acting like human beings in this country & we must stop killing one another
at the drop of a hat for whatever reason.
“If we refuse to do so we will wake up one day and we will
not have a country left: the only thing we will have is a massive cauldron of
fire in which every single one of us is either consumed or becomes a pitiful
and sorry refugee.
“No-one wins a religious or tribal war in a multi-ethnic,
multi-religious and multi-cultural nation of over 210 million people. If, God
forbid, it were to ever happen we will ALL suffer and we will ALL lose.
“I call for peace, calm and restraint on all sides in Plateau state and indeed throughout the country.”
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