Dissatisfied by the rise in terrorist activities across the country, the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare state of emergency on security. The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), led by its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday expressed his concern regarding the issues and was appalled by the state of insecurity in Nigeria.
The council, at a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, lamented that hardly does a day pass without some heart-rending news about kidnapping, armed robbery, violent attacks, killings and other vices on innocent Nigerians.
These came as a reaction from the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and his party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,who told President Buhari to apologize to Nigerians for declaring that more Muslims than Christians have been killed by Boko Haram since insurgency started in the country 10 years ago.
The statement, jointly signed by Aselemi Ibrahim, Head, Media and Communications; Alhaji Yusuf Chinedozi Nwoha, Director of Administration and Prof. Salisu Shehu, Deputy Secretary-General of the NSCIA, was read by Nwoha.
The council through its statement said that the level of insecurity in the country has reached an unacceptable crescendo that declaring a state of emergency on it appears necessary and pressing. The statement also read: “The situation of Nigeria today is desperate and desperate situations require desperate measures in the collective interest of well-meaning Nigerians”