By Our Reporter
The Jana'atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has called for thorough prosecution of all those involved in the barbaric, cowardly and gruesome murder of 16 Northerners in Uromi, Delta State who were travelling to Kano from Port Harcourt.
The JNI in a statement by its General Secretary, Professor Khalid Aliyu said Government must use the perpetrators to set example, and ensure that henceforth anyone who engaged in such crime will pay with his life.
According to the JNI, such killings have kept recurring because government has not taken the right steps beyond condemnation and warning to getting those involved to answer for their crimes.
"We reiterate our calls to the federal government to rise up to its primary responsibility of protecting and securing citizens irrespective of their ethnicity or religion, it should go beyond the tired cliches of condemnation and appeals for calm," it added.
The Muslim umbrella body condemned the generalization of criminals as representatives of the whole, thus leading to unjust stereotyping and hate campaign.
"We condemn all criminals, whoever they are and wherever they come from. A criminal should be treated as a criminal regardless of his or her ethnicity and or religious affiliation."
It also warned against any form of reprisal attack, and urged security personnel to be diligent in the arrest and prosecution of all the perpetrators of the Edo carnage.
"The Edo State Government should also follow up the prosecution to logical conclusion, culprits be served death sentences, so to serve as deterrence."
The JNI tasked the federal government to be proactive on security matters, including redress to ethnic violence in some part of the country, as citizens are becoming more agitated.
"Government should take the bull by the horn to prosecute promoters of hate speech in Nigeria, otherwise it will become a norm that might spell doom for the country. Government should act fast before we are consumed by their induced conflagrations.
"We also expect the federal as well as Edo State Governments, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Muslim Lawyers Association (MULAN), and well-meaning civil societies and organisations to seek for redress for the victims through the courts of law, because justice delayed is justice denied.
"Finally, while we continue to express our sincere condolences to all the victims of the brutal murder in Edo state, we are calling on the Nigerian Governors, relevant security agencies and non-governmental organisations to synergize with a view to finding a lasting solution to these repeated and senseless killings in Nigeria."
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