Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria (MMWG), has cautioned religious leaders in Kwara state against making inciting comments over the New Year eve attacks on some Christian and Muslim worshippers at Taiwo- Isale area of Ilorin.
The group noted that the evil was perpetrated by some miscreants whose leaders of Taiwo – Isale community prevented from holding a carnival party in the area.
In a statement by its national coordinator, Alh Abdullahi Ibrahim yesterday, the group said since adherents of both Islam and Christianity were attacked in the same vicinity and almost at the same time, religious groups should stop pointing accusing fingers at one and other.
He pointed out that the comments of the president of the Kwara state’s chapter of the Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN), Prof. Tunde Opoola did not give accurate account of the crisis.
While commending the state Police command for its quick intervention and clarifying that the crisis was not a religious one, the group decried Opoola’s assertion that it was some Muslims that attacked the Christians.
In his briefing to the Press, Prof. Timothy Opoola, the CAN leader, mischievously attacked the Muslims claiming that Christians were attacked in their places of worship and that their female worshippers were raped. This is absolutely fallacious and totally untrue, the statement added.
According to MMWG, the Police that came to the rescue of members of the Quareeb Islamic Association that were similarly affected, have the detail account of the incident in which several members of the Quareeb Group were injured when the hoodlums threw some explosive devices at them in their midnight Tahajud Prayers. It was the police rescue team that took several injured Muslims to the General Hospital Ilorin when the incident occurred.
