Plateau Killing: MURIC slams Plateau Governor, condoles families of deceased

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has condemned the killings of some members who were travelling to attend wedding in plateau state

Professor Ishaq Akintola, Founder/Executive Director, Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, in a statement slammed the Plateau State Governor for seeking to trivialize the attack on Muslim travellers by his kinsmen.

The group described the attack as most horrendous, totally egregious and categorically preposterous, just as it referred to the governor’s statement after the attack as an unapologetic ‘apology’.

“We condemn the killings in the strongest terms. It is most horrendous, totally egregious and categorically preposterous.”*

“This zone has become a killing ground particularly for Muslim travellers. Unfortunately the rampaging youth have also become unrepentant in their killing sprees going by other attacks on Muslims carried out by them in the past. Christians in Plateau State have become slaves of their own perception. To them, every Muslim is a legitimate killing target.

“But the Governor of Plateau State, Caleb Mutfwang, did not help matters as he attempted to obfuscate the gravity of the offence under atmospheric volatility.

He said the brutal killings occurred because the Muslim travellers ‘lost their way and inadvertently ran into a tense and volatile situation in Mangun, a community grappling with sustained terrorist attacks.’

It said MURIC finds this disturbing considering several massacres and killings of Muslim travellers along the same axis