{"id":191281,"date":"2020-02-05T10:35:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T09:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191281"},"modified":"2020-02-05T10:35:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T09:35:41","slug":"islamic-group-blasts-can-fani-kayode-over-alleged-denial-of-suspected-bombers-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191281","title":{"rendered":"Islamic group blasts CAN, Fani-Kayode over alleged denial of suspected bomber’s identity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Islamic rights group, Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has insisted that the suspected suicide bomber caught at the Living Faith Church in Kaduna State on Sunday is a Christian.<\/p>\n

AREWA.NG, reported earlier that the Kaduna State Police Command yesterday announced the arrest of a suspected suicide bomber inside a church in Kaduna State<\/p>\n

The Islamic group said it pitched its camp with the Kaduna State Police Command, insisting that the suspect was indeed a Christian by name Nathaniel Samuel<\/p>\n

There has been intense controversy over the faith of the man caught attempting to bomb a branch of the Winners Chapel Church, Kaduna.<\/p>\n

Although the police gave the suspect\u2019s name as Nathaniel Samuel (a Christian name), a former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode and Rev. Joseph John Hayab, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) argue that the suspect was a Muslim by name Muhammed Sani Nasiru.<\/p>\n

MURIC in a statement signed by Professor Ishaq Akintola, the group\u2019s Director and sent to DAILY POST reaffirmed its earlier position that the suspect is a Christian and that his name is actually Nathaniel Samuel.<\/p>\n

MURIC said, \u201cThe police gave the suspect\u2019s name as Nathaniel Samuel. But for reasons best known to him, Fani-Kayode said the man is not a Christian, that his name is Muhammed Nasiru. What was the basis for that denial? Is Fani-Kayode trying to protect Christianity for Christians or what?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe chairman of CAN in Kaduna State, Rev. Joseph John Hayab had earlier denied that the suspect is a Christian. He claimed that the suspect\u2019s name was Muhammed Sani Nasiru.<\/p>\n

\u201cFani-Kayode called the incident \u2018a setup and a conspiracy to discredit Christianity\u2019. If we may ask, who is conspiring with who? Is he insinuating that the Kaduna Police Command is conspiring with the Muslims? That will be ridiculous.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut new developments have proven beyond reasonable doubt that Fani-Kayode\u2019s imagination is running wild. First, the suspect himself confessed in the presence of the press that, his name is Nathaniel Samuel\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

MURIC also claimed that the suspect\u2019s father confirmed his religion as Christianity, and so Fani Kayode had no reason to suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the last nail in the coffin of the doubting Thomases was the testimony of the suspect\u2019s father, Mr. Samuel Ezekiel. He confirmed that his son had never been a Muslim for one day. \u2018No! Not even for a single day has he been a Muslim\u2019 said the father.<\/p>\n

MURIC called of religious leaders to be ready to expose criminals as only then would Nigeria be rid of crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigeria will be rid of high profile criminals the moment religious leaders decide to expose them. The rate of crime will also reduce drastically if anti-crime sermons come from both the pulpit and the minbar on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn a last note, we advise both Rev. Hayab and Fani-Kayode to stop under-estimating the intelligence of Nigerians. People are taking note of what you say and what you do. Chroniclers are piling up the record of events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Islamic rights group, Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has insisted that the suspected suicide bomber caught at the Living Faith Church in Kaduna State on Sunday is a Christian. AREWA.NG, reported earlier that the Kaduna State Police Command yesterday announced the arrest of a suspected suicide bomber inside a church in Kaduna State The Islamic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,4,2677],"tags":[13309,299,4866,47,243,62,3736],"class_list":["post-191281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","category-politics","category-religious","tag-13309","tag-can","tag-crime","tag-fani-kayode","tag-nigeria","tag-politics","tag-religious"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}