The Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS) has distanced itself from a viral video of a bunch in its First Aid Group uniform chanting threats to Christians.
In the video, the chief of the group is heard soliciting assault rifles to hold out mass killings in church buildings in Enugu and Plateau states.
The National Chairman of JIBWIS, Abdullahi Bala-Lau, condemned the footage and urged the State Security Services (SSS), the Nigeria Police Force, and different safety companies to launch a direct investigation, unmask these behind the recording, and prosecute anybody discovered culpable.
Mr Bala-Lau said that the inciting remarks and requires violence are completely overseas to the core values, teachings, and targets of JIBWIS.
He cautioned that merely sporting the organisation’s First Aid Group uniform or standing amongst members doesn’t confer official illustration or authority to talk on behalf of the physique.
Expressing concern concerning the video’s timing and nature, the cleric famous that the incident may be a calculated effort by exterior actors to smear the organisation’s picture and undermine nationwide peace.
He pointed to JIBWIS’s peacebuilding observe document, citing its latest worldwide convention in Abuja, which convened Christian leaders, students from Islamic denominations, and worldwide delegates to foster interfaith concord and religious tolerance.
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The National Chairman of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau, has strongly condemned a viral video exhibiting a person dressed within the uniform of the organisation’s First Aid Group, taking part in a jogging train and chanting provocative statements calling for AK-47 rifles to be given to them to allow them to journey to Enugu on Sunday and perform an assault.
Reacting to the disturbing growth, Sheikh Bala Lau known as on the Department of State Services (DSS), the Nigeria Police Force and different related safety companies to right away examine the incident, determine these accountable and be certain that anybody discovered culpable is delivered to justice in accordance with the regulation.
The National Chairman categorically dissociated JIBWIS from the inflammatory statements, stressing that such expressions of violence, intimidation and threats towards any group are utterly alien to the ideas, teachings and targets upon which the organisation was established.
He emphasised that sporting the JIBWIS First Aid Group uniform or showing amongst its members doesn’t robotically imply a person is performing on behalf of the organisation or with its authorisation.
Sheikh Bala Lau additional expressed concern that the incident may characterize a deliberate try by people or exterior pursuits to misrepresent the organisation and injury its longstanding popularity. He subsequently urged safety companies to completely examine the circumstances surrounding the video, together with the identification, affiliation and potential motives of these concerned.
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The Chairman recalled that JIBWIS not too long ago organised a global convention in Abuja, bringing collectively Christian leaders, Muslim students from totally different Islamic faculties of thought, outstanding personalities and contributors from totally different elements of the world, with the central goal of selling interfaith dialogue, mutual understanding, religious tolerance and peaceable coexistence.
He questioned how an organisation that has persistently invested its assets, management and institutional efforts in constructing bridges throughout religious and ethnic divides may moderately be related to statements advocating violence towards fellow Nigerians.
For roughly 48 years since its institution, JIBWIS has remained dedicated to the propagation of genuine Islamic teachings, the promotion of the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), ethical reformation, schooling, humanitarian companies and the peaceable coexistence of individuals no matter their religious, ethnic or geographical backgrounds.
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