{"id":44770,"date":"2015-12-10T19:35:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=44770"},"modified":"2015-12-10T19:35:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:35:28","slug":"biafra-agitation-legitimate-butsays-lai-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/biafra-agitation-legitimate-butsays-lai-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"Biafra agitation legitimate, but\u2026says Lai Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"h7  \" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"Bk\">\n<div class=\"G3 G2\">\n<div>\n<div id=\":mm\">\n<div class=\"adn ads\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div id=\":mo\" class=\"ii gt m1518cfab1a6e9683 adP adO\">\n<div id=\":mn\" class=\"a3s\">\nMinister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has said that agitation for<br \/>\nBiafra was legitimate, but campaigners should take appropriate channel<br \/>\nto ventilate their discontent.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Peace Conversation with religious leaders organized by<br \/>\nthe National Orientation Agency (NOA), in Abuja, the Minister urged<br \/>\nreligious leaders to serve as appealing voice to aggrieved people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time of agitations in some parts of the country by persons who<br \/>\nbelieve their interests have not been well catered for in the<br \/>\nFederation over the years, our religious leaders can serve as an<br \/>\nappealing voice to these aggrieved citizens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said it is the duty of religious leaders to preach<br \/>\nundiluted messages of their faiths and making their followers see the<br \/>\nreasons Nigeria has to stay together as an indivisible entity.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cYou, our revered religious leaders, have a great role to<br \/>\nplay in this respect. Top on the list of these roles is the need to<br \/>\nde-radicalize those who have been exposed to extremist and violent<br \/>\nview of religion, especially in the North-east.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important for you, our religious leaders, to highlight the<br \/>\npristine and unadulterated version of the two dominant religious<br \/>\nfaith, Christianity and Islam, to remind all the adherents of both<br \/>\nfaith that nowhere did any of them preach hatred and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Stressing the necessity for peace to reign in the country, the<br \/>\nMinister said the level of destruction in the north-east region is<br \/>\ninexplicable for the government to allow another set of people to<br \/>\nplunge another part of the country into war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kind of destruction and devastation that I saw in those areas<br \/>\nconvinced me, more than ever, that the perpetrators are not adherents<br \/>\nof any religion but a bunch of mad people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur religious leaders must make this point loud and clear for the<br \/>\nbenefit of the gullible ones who may want to believe that those<br \/>\nperpetrating the heinous killings in the North-east subscribe to any<br \/>\nfaith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Minister explained that with the effort of the Nigerian Military<br \/>\nto restore peace to the troubled region, it beholds on all and sundry<br \/>\nto join hands with the government to promote peace in the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ajx\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gA gt acV\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"h7  ie nH oy8Mbf\" tabindex=\"-1\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has said that agitation for Biafra was legitimate, but campaigners should take appropriate channel to ventilate their discontent. 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