BREAKING: CAN Condemns Nigeria Chief Justice, Tanko
According to Reports, The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has Reacted to Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad’s call for the amendment of the constitution to accomodate more aspects of the Shari’a law.
Recall we reported that Tanko urged academics to champion the cause of redesigning the methods of teaching Shari’a law,
while pointing out that implementation of his suggestions would be more feasible if universities give the Shari’a law its own faculty. Reacting to the comment credited to the CJN, CAN through its National Director, Legal and Public Affairs Evang.
Kwamkur Vondip raised an alarm of a plan to islamize Nigeria. The Christian group also called for the removal of Tanko and the Chief Justice of Nigeria over the comment it described as reprehensible, reckless and insensitive.
CAN’s statement reads in parts; “The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) notes that Nigerians are well aware that there are sections of the constitution which allow the implementation of Islamic Personal Law.
“CAN observes that the CJN has neither denied any of the reports attributed to him nor has he clarified it. He called for amendment to alter Nigeria’s current constitutional status to be religiously inclined toward one religion, Islam.
Clearly, this looks like the path to making Islam a state religion.“No one can begrudge the CJN from peacefully practicing his faith. But to seek to transform it into having greater space in our constitution for only one religion is the height official immodesty.
CAN views this as the most reprehensible, reckless and insensitive statement made by a public officer, a jurist, the very head of Nigeria’s judiciary at that.
“Public officers, rather than see themselves in privileged positions to discharge responsibilities that promote national cohesion, dialogue, and understanding, remove suspicion and project Nigeria’s leadership, have instead turned around to be local and humdrum in their dispositions toward other parts of the country.
“Related cases are the heads of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Air Force who chose to cite specialised universities in their home areas using the public treasury.
Perhaps the CJN is reinforcing the same mentality, this time using religious self-indulgence.
“But then, we may pause and ask ourselves the following questions: are these actions by the military chiefs and the pronouncement of the CJN deliberately synchronized to promote regionalism and religious bias?
Are we seeing the implementation of part of a much bigger plan to turn the country into one behemoth of a region and also one grand religion?”
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