Sultan decries insecurity, condemns killing of U. S. consulate team in Anambra

THE Sultan of Sokoto and Co- chair of Nigeria Inter- Religious Council ( NIREC), Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, has decried resurgence of insecurity across the country, describing the situation as worrisome.

While condemning the killing of some officials of the United State’s advance team in Anambra State, the Sultan said Nigeria could not continue on the same trajectory, adding that NIREC would parley the incoming government to find solution to insecurity.

Speaking at opening of the second quarterly meeting of NIREC, with the theme ‘ Media and Effective Leadership and Nation Building’, in Abuja, yesterday, the Islamic leader said throughout 2023 electioneering campaigns and elections, Nigerians did not hear much about banditry and killings.

“Why this resurgence?” the Sultan asked, explaining: “This has nothing to do with religion.”

He said: “We need to discuss this and see how we can bring solution, as religious leaders, and engage the incoming government. Bandits go into people’s communities and kill them and destroy their houses, and after the deed has been done, security agencies go there, to do what? To look at the ashes?

“Some people were killed in Anambra and their bodies and vehicles burnt. Why the wickedness of killing and burning people indiscriminately? People will face the wrath of God for taking the lives of others unjustly.”

Also speaking, President of Christian Association of Nigeria ( CAN) and Co- chair of NIREC, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, called on media practitioners to see their job as a calling, instead of a profession that guarantees quick access to riches and fame.