Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has threatened to ‘get’ Dr. Paul
Enenche, the Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre
(DIGC), over an alleged incitement.
El-Rufai said this on Thursday when Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, paid him a visit in Kaduna.
The
governor was reacting to a recent message by Enenche where he blasted
El-Rufai for not doing enough to end the killings in Kaduna State.
He
said, “The recent crisis we had in Kaduna metropolis in Kasuwan Mageni
was largely as a result of hate speech. The second round of crisis was
because rumours started circulating that the abducted chief of Agada had
been killed and within an hour 22 people were killed and it was totally
false,” he said.
“By the time you create a lie like the case of
these 22 people, consequences will follow. Even though the ransom was
paid and he was freed, before he got to the road, the kidnappers shot
and killed him.
“What was the story? The story circulating was
that I invited the chief to a meeting and told him that his chiefdom
will become an emirate and he disagreed with me and when he was
abducted, it was implied that I arranged the abduction. This is what
started the crisis and it is totally false.
“I have never invited
any chief except when they write to see me. I can depose him. Why will I
threaten him? I can abolish his chiefdom or emirate under the law. But
this was the story circulating and it raised tension and many people
were killed. The programme you launched against fake news is commendable
and should be sustained.
“There was a clip going round, a pastor
in Abuja that said I was the one that arranged the abduction and murder
of the agom of Kachia. I have filed a complaint to the IG. We intend to
bring him to Kaduna to try him.
“The clip was circulated in
Kaduna and he is in Abuja, we will get him. We know the agents of this
kind of careless statements and what is most unfortunate is that the
guiltiest are people that we assume should be responsible, pastors,
imams and very important people in the society.”
He described fake news and hate speech as fundamental problems confronting the society.
“It
is not only the president that was said to be cloned. I am also someone
from Mali. Somebody went to my Wikipedia page and changed my birthplace
to Bamako, Mali. That the real el-Rufai died when he went on exile in
2009,” the governor said.
“These things are becoming common, you
have a whole range of gullible people. We must do something otherwise we
are all in danger.”
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