Write Boko Haram to stop attacks, Oritsejafor tells Sultan

The President of the Christian Association of
Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, on
Monday urged the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji
Sa’ad Abubakar, to write a letter to Boko
Haram to stop their attacks just as he did to
the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Oritsejafor made the call in Abuja at a 2-day
roundtable with Senior Special Assistants on
Religious Affairs from the 36 states of the
federation and the Federal Capital Territory
(FCT).
“His Eminence said he wrote a letter to ISIS, I
have to truly congratulate you for that because
that was a very good move.
‘‘I didn’t know about it until today and I am so
glad it happened. But I want to appeal that
you also write to Boko Haram because Boko
Haram is worst than ISIS.
‘‘They have killed more people than ISIS, they
have caused more atrocities than ISIS; they
need to be written to as well, it is very
important it will help.
“I have made an appeal several times that
there are some of our leaders who must come
together, religious, political and traditional.
They must come and discuss.’’
He also enjoined religious clerics, particularly
those in the ‘good book’ of the militant sect to
reach out to the leadership of the sect so that
the real Islam could be presented to them
instead of allowing them to continue to be
misrepresenting Islam.
According to him, the militant sect will not
listen to him, he will have joined the clerics in
preaching peace to members of the terror
group and the need to practice real Islam.


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