The Director-General of the Centre for Justice on Religious and Ethnicity in Nigeria, Rev. Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa, has urged the federal government to make sure that all Nigerians, regardless of their positions, are treated equally under the law.

Rev. Dikwa told Daily Post that religious leaders have been making inflammatory statements that claim there is no governance in the country since the 14th August 2021 incident on Rukuba Road in Plateau State that killed about 20 persons.

He said, “The utterances of these religious leaders do not speak well of a democratically-elected government in the country to the outside world. Besides, leaders and stakeholders have since the occurrence of the killing have come out to condemn the killers but some few individuals because for reasons best known to them speak as if they have the final say and own the country.

“We can not live in this type of chaotic environment and yet there is a democratically elected government in place that Nigerians voted for. Many have been killed and killings are still going on without anybody saying anything. Does it mean those that are made to leave their ancestral homes and their relatives killed, maimed, kidnapped and other valuables destroyed are not Nigerians?”

He added, “Sheikh Alkali Abubakar Salihu Zaria on Friday, 20th August 2021, made an inciting statement to his followers and declared war against Christians concerning the crisis that took place in Jos at Rukuba road after Gada Biyu. The so-called Islamic scholar Alkali Abubakar described Christians as infidels, warned Christians in Plateau State and also entire Christians in Nigeria.

“He said that they are going to retaliate and said the life of a Muslim is equivalent to 100 Christian lives, there are Christians in Bauchi, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfar States and all these states have roads and they are going to block those roads to kill the Christians on those roads.

“The so-called Islamic scholar Alkali Abubakar thanked and praised governor Ahmed El-Rufai of Kaduna State for helping them in jihad (killing Christians) in Kaduna State.”