An Islamic group, The Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, has described the South-West security outfit, the Amotekun, has a Christian agenda.
According to its Vice President, Sheikh Abdurrasheed Hadiyatullah, it is an affair of a Christian-dominated State Police Force designed and determined from the Church at the expense of the Muslim majority in the region.
Many have seen the outfit as a desirable one, in the context of the security threat the region is facing.
While the Federal Government had initially raised an on objection to its existence, it has since agreed with the governors on modalities.
But another Muslim group, the Muslims Rights Concern, led by prof Ishaq Akintola, had also rejected it, with Akintola’s claim of a christian agenda drawing much condemnation.
Speaking in Osogbo, Hadiyatullah said:
“The Amotekun program is viewed as a subtle method of further Christianization of the Southwest by its promoters in their usual manner of having political and power dominance over the Muslims in the region.
“It is another elusive way of establishing a ‘Christian-dominated State Police Force whose affairs would be designed and determined from the Church at the expense of the Muslims majority in the region.
“Provision of effective safety for lives and property of the people at any point in time is a collective responsibility one that is devoid of any iota of elements of religious, ethnic and primitive bigotry; a type of garment that Amotekun presently but unfortunately wears.
“Issues of security of the peoples ought not to be premised on the altar of politics and personal interests as doing such would amount to building an empire on mere propaganda and the figment of the imagination of the gullible. It stands to collapse shortly after its creation.
“Any form of the Christian agenda camouflaged as a Security Outfit, such as the Amotekun, where the Muslims population from the Southwest and in the country at large is viewed as a target is an act of injustice, unfairness, inequality, barbarism, savagery and wickedness taken too far and therefore outright unacceptable and thereby condemned in its entirety.”
