How to stop terrorism in Nigeria–Northern Muslim Police Officer offers solutions

.stop calling non Muslims kafir

-ban Alamajiri, hate speech

A top Muslim Police Officer from the North has blames Northern Politicians, Clerics for religious intolerance and insecurity in the country.

Former Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sheriff Abubakar Rabiu, in a letter circulated widely and made available to Irohinoodua said Northern Muslim elites deliberately fuel religious discord in the country.

He said the Muslim elite
“poison the minds of our youth with vituperative, inciting and dangerously divisive sermons.”

He said the venom has turned pulpits into platforms for open warfare against Christians.

He said the current situation in the country was a result of accumulated hatred promoted against Christians for the political comfort of the North’s ruling class.

The North has ruled Nigeria for more than 49 years of post 1960 independence, yet the region remains the poorest with over 13million out of school children

“Nobody has the key to Jannatul Firdausi except Allah.

“Yet any Tom, Dick and Harry with myopic knowledge of Islam wakes up, grabs a microphone and starts calling our Christian brothers ‘Arna’, ‘Kafurai’, ‘infidels destined for hell. This is not Islam. This is madness. And this madness gave birth to Boko Haram.” Sheriff thundered.

The ex-ACP slammed hate preaching and the Almajiri system for dragging Nigeria into turmoil.

“An idle mind is the devil’s workshop,” he wrote. “Those street children you see begging today are tomorrow’s recruits, dummies and foot soldiers for every new terrorist franchise that promises them paradise for killing ‘infidels’.”

The sheriff’s most striking moment was when he reflected critically on his own community, rather than simply condemning Donald Trump for putting Nigeria on a watch-list.

“Instead of shouting ‘Trump is Islamophobic’, let us go back to our drawing board. Why did America put us on that list? Because some of our preachers behave like they are above the law. Try that kind of sermon in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, even Cameroon – you will be arrested and executed the same day. But here in secular Nigeria they insult Christians from Friday to Friday and nobody touches them.

“Do this sincerely,” Sheriff warned, “and America will see we are serious. Fail, and we invite the same digital war machinery that turned Afghanistan and Iraq into graveyards.”

Rabiu urged President Tinubu to work with the National Assembly, Northern governors, and local government chairmen to enact tough laws against derogatory labeling of fellow Nigerians, street begging, and hate speech masquerading as preaching. He warned that genuine efforts would be recognized by America, while failure might lead to severe consequences.

“If we implement these measures, Nigeria will return to the peace we enjoyed in the early 1970s when Muslims and Christians drank from the same cup, married each other’s sisters and buried each other’s dead.”:

The letter spread rapidly, reaching over 40 Northern WhatsApp groups with 256 to 5,000 members each, by yesterday evening. A youth leader from Kano’s Hotoro suburb shared his thoughts, requesting anonymity, saying, “This is the first time a big Muslim officer has spoken truth to our face without fear. If our governors ignore him, they are the real enemies of Islam.”

Attempts to reach the Kano Hisbah Board for comment were unsuccessful, but a senior commander who spoke off-record admitted: “Mallam Sheriff has said what many of us whisper in private. The question is – who will bell the cat?”

The retired senior cop in his final submission mentioned, “I know Mr President since while I was serving in Lagos state police command as SSO, in fact presently some police officers that I posted to his personal house then in Ikeja GRA, but presently in Ikoyi, some of them are still serving there, like Inspector Bimbo Ogundipe and Inspector Mundi Longse.
I could remembered one day after security meeting in Government house Alausa Ikeja,

“Mr President once directed one Major PHANOX to be taking good care of my welfare and my office as the youngest H.O.D in the command in 2002/2003, He is is a very good man and administrator with a very high level of strategic thinking and listener, because I know him since that time personally and even have his gsm number that he gave me when he visited yola around 2011/12 there about with the former President Buhari, I was personally assigned to him by my former Governor Murtala Nyako to personally served them food for security reasons in the yola international airport lounge.

“So if Mr President see me today he will 100% recognise me, in fact there was sometimes in 2014, we had some illegal encroachment in our SPO’S Police Barracks in Victoria island lagos, I immediately called Mr President then to complained and he gave me the gsm number of his present media chief and former Minister Sunday Dare to assist and which he did assisted us in the Barracks to stop the illegal errection of shops.

“God Almighty will continue to guide our Leaders by opening there eyes and ears to continue to take the part of truth and to be decisive on all those sections of some religious clerics that break the laws of our lands through hate speeches and encouragement of Almajiris in our noble society.” He said