Rights group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Sunday, faulted the invitation of the leader of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Pastor Johnson Suleiman, by the Department of State Services (DSS), saying that such invitation for interrogation is nothing but an invitation to anarchy.
HURIWA, who particularly expressed concern that the hierarchy of the DSS has embarked on a deliberate clamp down of vocal Christian leaders that are opposed to the incessant killings of farmers across the country by armed Fulani terrorists, observed that the Daura-led DSS hierarchy has adopted a “divide-and-rule tactics”.
The overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide has been invited by the DSS to appear at its National Headquarters in Abuja for interrogation on Monday, January 30, 2017 by 10:00 a.m. allegedly inciting Christians to defend themselves against attacks by Fulani herdsmen.
But HURIWA described the invitation as “absolutely condemnable, reprehensible, illegal, unconstitutional and totally unjustifiable”.
In an emailed statement issued by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, and National Media Affairs Director, Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA accused the DSS of playing a double standard game by going after Christian leaders for speaking out in defence of their members, even when leaders of other ethno-religious communities in the core North are not arrested.
HURIWA, therefore, called on all Nigerians of goodwill to speak out before the current leadership of the DSS would drag Nigeria into a needless religious war.
“We are shocked that the DSS that couldn’t stop the genocides of Southern Kaduna, Agatu community in Benue (State) and the attacks of Enugu and Abia states all by armed Fulani terrorists is now in a dangerous hurry even at the threat of igniting inter-religious warfare to arrest Christian leaders, whose only ‘crime’ is to counsel their members not to standby and allow their lives be taken away by armed marauders.
“The invitation to Apostle Johnson Suleiman is an invitation to anarchy, and this divide-and-rule tactics of the Alhaji Daura-led DSS hierarchy is absolutely condemnable, reprehensible, illegal, unconstitutional and totally unjustifiable.
“Let all Nigerians of goodwill speak out now before this current leadership of DSS drag Nigeria into a needless religious war,” the statement read.
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