The Shiite Muslim Group in Nigeria beneath the umbrella of the All-Ja’fariyah Growth Affiliation, AJDA, has accused the Nigerian authorities of attacking and persecuting its members.
In an announcement on Tuesday, the AJDA spokesman, Abdullahi Hassan, lamented that regardless of being a peaceable and law-abiding group, Shiites have confronted relentless assaults, harassment and discrimination by Nigerian authorities.
Mr Hassan stated: “Shias will not be helpful idiots or criminals who have interaction in banditry and terrorism, on behalf of overseas pursuits and enemies of our nation, not like some teams utilized by these enemies.
“These forces make use of bandits for kidnapping, killing, and displacing communities, exploiting sources for his or her sponsors.
“Shias will not be Boko Haram, who create insecurity by killing harmless individuals, taking up lands of harmless and poor Nigerians, and driving away inhabitants of resource-rich societies to safe and protect these sources for his or her trainers and armers.
“Shias will not be stooges of leaders or international locations utilized by globalists to usurp sources and impose ideologies that assist genocide, within the identify of Islam, or excommunication.
“One different crime of the Shias is holding on to the College of Considered the holy Prophet (SAW), and his pure progeny.
“A College of Thought that abhors disunity, bloodshed, and all types of crimes in opposition to humanity, versus the College of Considered our decades-long persecutors, who’re recognized for issuing false spiritual verdicts to name for the killings of Shias.
“It’s on report that these two teams Boko Haram and bandits, have killed lots of of Nigeria’s harmless, patriotic, and gallant safety forces that genuinely go to battle them to safe the nation.
“However, surprisingly, the terrorists will not be handled by the identical safety forces or seen by them as threats to the nation, as a substitute, they’re busy profiling the Shias, who’re all generally known as victims of each the terrorists and the safety forces, as the one threats to nationwide safety.
“In reality, one other worrisome improvement concerning the authorities’s dealing with of those criminals is the way in which their recognized ideologues and supporters, amongst students, are surprisingly, being supplied juicy appointments in President Tinubu’s authorities, as began by President Muhammadu Buhari’s authorities.”
