The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, on Saturday, slammed the remarks by Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi that Christians within the Center Belt have been staging funerals to manufacture genocide.
The PFN described Gumi’s comments as not solely insensitive, irresponsible, however morally reprehensible.
Recall that Gumi had alleged that Christians within the Center Belt have been burying empty coffins to manufacture a story of genocide.
Nonetheless, the Christian physique, in a press release titled ‘Rebuttal of Ahmad Gumi’s false and harmful declare’ by its Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Dr Sylvanus Ukafia, mentioned Gumi’s declare was baseless, inflammatory, and collapses underneath the slightest scrutiny.
The assertion reads: “We strongly condemn the current assertion by Ahmad Gumi alleging that Christians within the Center Belt are “burying empty coffins” to manufacture a story of genocide.
“This declare is baseless, inflammatory, and collapses underneath the slightest scrutiny.
“Throughout Nigerian cultures Christian, Muslim, and conventional — there is no such thing as a follow of burying empty coffins.
“Funerals are communal, identity-based rites anchored on actual names, actual households, and actual histories. The concept that total communities are staging faux burials with out a single whistleblower or inconsistency isn’t solely illogical however deeply insulting.
“Gumi’s allegation rests solely on an unnamed ‘physician’ with none verifiable particulars: no identify, no location, no proof, no photographs, no timestamps. That is rumour masquerading as reality.”
