NHRC demands action against Sheikh Jingir over alleged hate speech

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has called for the apprehension and prosecution of Islamic cleric, Sheikh Yahaya Jingir implicit remarks wide condemned arsenic divisive and inflammatory.

The telephone followed comments made by the cleric astatine an lawsuit successful Kano, wherever helium defended the Muslim-Muslim summons up of the 2027 elections and reportedly urged Muslims to asseverate governmental dominance implicit Christians.

In a statement, NHRC Executive Secretary, Tony Ojukwu, SAN, described the remarks arsenic “hate code and incitement to spiritual hatred and imaginable violence,” informing that specified comments could deepen divisions and endanger peaceful coexistence.

The committee urged information agencies, including the constabulary and the Department of State Services, DSS, to apprehension and prosecute the cleric, stressing that accountability indispensable use careless of presumption oregon governmental affiliation.

“We cannot spend to look away. If we neglect to talk and enactment now, we embolden some Christian and Muslim clerics and different influential persons to marque worse statements successful the coming months. That way leads lone to crisis,” the NHRC stated.

The committee besides called connected spiritual leaders, politicians and accepted rulers to debar inflammatory rhetoric and urged Nigerians to cull identity-based authorities arsenic the state prepares for the 2027 ...