Stop giving ethnic, religious colouration to banditry, kidnapping  – Islamic Council 

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has said that attempts to represent Nigerian Muslims arsenic perpetrators of Kidnapping, banditry and different convulsive crimes is mendacious and misleading, stating that specified presumption is unfair to the overwhelming bulk of peace-loving Muslims that lend to nationalist improvement crossed each sectors.

In a connection signed by its spokesperson, Abbas Jimoh to people Nigeria’s Democracy Day, the assembly said, “Recent efforts by immoderate individuals and groups to subordinate Islam and Muslims with transgression activities were unjust and unsafe to nationalist unity.”

The connection recalled caller kidnapping incidental successful Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State and the attempts to nexus the transgression to a peculiar taste oregon spiritual group.

It explained that suspects should beryllium identified and prosecuted based connected grounds and not identity, saying that crimina...