Middle Belt youths sees Waku's attack on Oritsejafor as very Wrong

National Youth Leader of the Middle Belt Forum, Mr. Jonathan Asak, has faulted the Vice Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Senator Joseph Waku, over his attack on the President of the Christian Association, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor .

Waku had recently criticised Oritsejafor’s address before the United States Congress’ Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights, saying the cleric’s comments were capable of dividing the country.

But MBF youths questioned Waku’s credibility, saying he lacked the credential to talk.

In a statement in Jos on Sunday, Asake, said, “We are baffled that Waku, a Christian (if he truly is) and indeed a Middle Belter could make such unwarranted comments on the leadership of Christians in Nigeria, knowing fully well the activities of the dreaded Islamic terrorists known as Boko Haram which has been bombing and killing innocent Nigerians, especially Christians in the northern part of the country.

“Waku’s outburst presents him as a desperate agent paid by his masters to execute an agenda.”

Also, a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has backed Oritsejafor for urging the US to declare Boko Haram a terrorist organisation.

In a statement on Sunday, Fani-Kayode said, “As far as I am concerned those that have said that Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President of CAN, wishes to ‘divide Nigeria’ simply because he asked the United States of America to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organisation at a Congressional hearing in Washington last week are simply misguided and insincere.

“The assertion that there is a grand conspiracy by the Christians against the Muslim community in Nigeria by the Jam’atu Nasril Islam is simply not true.

“This is a dangerous, reckless and unguarded statement to make and it cannot possibly help us to achieve the religious harmony that we so desperately desire and pray for in Nigeria.”

Meanwhile, the Middle Belt Youths Focus has threatened to start retaliatory attacks if the Boko Haram fails to stop its bombings.

The President of the group, Alhaji Abdulazeez Bello, and the Secretary, Jermaine Obaoye, at a news conference on Saturday in Lagos, said the frequent attacks by the sect could no longer be condoned.

Abdulazeez said, “Should the situation continue, the people of Middle Belt will have no other option than to defend themselves.”

Abdulazeez explained that the persistent attacks in Jos, Plateau State, were calculated attempts to destabilise the Middle Belt region.

The youth urged the Federal Government to rise up to the challenge posed by the sect through concerted efforts.

Culled from- The Punch News