“Muslims Are Also Victims Of Killings, Abductions” – MURIC To Kukah, Demands Apology

By Ayodele Oni

Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has accused Bishop Matthew Kukah of misleading Nigerians for saying that bandits target only Christians for abductions and killings.

Kukah was quoted to have repeatedly ascribed killings and abductions to Islamisation, as well claim that only Christians are being killed by terrorists and bandits.

Describing those in that school of thought as “confusionists, anarchists and alarmists,” the Islamic human rights organization declared that crime has no religious or ethnic colour.

The group, therefore, demanded apology from Bishop Mathew Kukah over his frequent allegations of Islamisation and killing of Christians alone.

This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday, by the Executive Director of MURIC, Prof Ishaq Akintola.

”We are of the opinion that these two sad incidents which happened on the same day underline the fact that terrorists and bandits target no particular religion or ethnic group. All they are interested in is to seize human beings for pecuniary gain.

“It will be recalled that terrorists killed 50 Muslims in Malunfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State on 5th August, 2025

“60 Muslims were also mowed down in May 2020 in Sabon Birni, Sokoto State ( October 18, 2021 report confirmed the killing of more than 60 Muslims in a marketplace in Sokoto

”The massacres of Muslims in large numbers further amplify the unnecessary dissipation of energy, sheer wild goose chases, superfluous media hype and spiritual masturbation in addressing the US Congress by people like Bishop Mathew Hasan Kuka to lay false and misleading allegations of the killing of Christians in Nigeria as if Muslims are also not victims of killings and abductions.

“Entrepreneurs of falsehood and merchants of fake news are the main enemies of this country. They are enemies of peace and progress.

“Nigerians should know these agent provocateur and advocatus diaboli. Crime has no religious or ethnic colour. Those who ascribe terror attacks to Islamisation and allege that only Christians are being killed possess the verb ‘to lie’ and the noun ‘liars’.

“The wind has blown and we have seen the ruff of the hen. What happened yesterday in Zamfara where 40 Muslims were abducted and in Kogi State where a bishop was kidnapped have further opened the eyes of Nigerians.

” If lies start running for decades, truth will catch up in a single day. Nigerians have seen that gunmen, armed bandits and terrorists kill and abduct both Muslims and Christians. No adherents of any faith is spared by these men of evil. We are all victims.

*”We therefore call on Bishop Mathew Hasan Kukah and his co-travellers to stop this spiritual masturbation and acrobatic religiousity. In particular, Kukah should tender unreserved apology to Nigerians for misleading them for so long.”