Former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK), has said that Christians in Nigeria are being particularly focused and killed.
He made the remarks on Tuesday whereas commenting on the current surge in killings and mass abductions by felony parts.
A staunch supporter of President Bola Tinubu, FFK described these denying the killings of Christians as “propagandists”.
He condemned claims that “Christians usually are not being killed in Nigeria and that we bury empty coffins” as “a monstrous lying”, including that anybody who denies or downplays the killings is “a perfidious propagandist, a genocide enabler, and a specious liar.”
Whereas stressing that the safety disaster impacts all religions, FFK famous that Muslims are additionally focused.
“What have to be clearly understood, nonetheless, is that Muslims are additionally focused and killed by the identical terrorists in equal numbers,” he stated.
FFK warned that Islamist terrorists are indiscriminately killing each Christians and Muslims, calling for pressing motion to handle the disaster.
He cited current assaults: the kidnapping of 25 schoolgirls in Kebbi State and the killing of the college principal, the 64 folks kidnapped in Tsafe, Zamfara State, and the killing of three people, noting that in these circumstances, the victims had been Muslims.
He contrasted this with the kidnapping of a Catholic priest and 12 women in Kagarko, Kaduna State, who had been Christians, and the assault on Military officers, together with a Brigadier Normal, in Borno State, which affected each Christians and Muslims.
“They solely care concerning the spilling of harmless blood and abduction of our folks,” FFK stated.
His feedback come amid claims by US lawmakers that Christians are being persecuted in Nigeria, a declare dismissed by Nigerian authorities however at the moment below investigation by US officers.