{"id":2970,"date":"2023-10-06T06:51:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T06:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2023-10-06T06:51:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T06:51:26","slug":"muric-cautions-wike-on-israeli-security-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/10\/06\/muric-cautions-wike-on-israeli-security-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"MURIC Cautions Wike on Israeli Security Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has issued a cautionary statement directed at the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nyesome Wike, regarding his plans to partner with Israeli security experts to enhance security measures in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Thursday, Professor Ishaq Akintola, the Executive Director of MURIC, expressed his apprehensions concerning Wike&#8217;s intentions. Akintola argued that entrusting Nigeria&#8217;s security to Israel is a matter of concern, as Israel itself has been viewed as a security threat by numerous countries across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He further pointed out that Israel has a history of human rights violations and a lack of respect for individuals of different faiths. Akintola emphasized that the state of Israel&#8217;s actions often defy international norms and standards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MURIC&#8217;s Executive Director went on to warn that any collaboration with Israel could potentially worsen Nigeria&#8217;s security challenges, elevating them from a local crisis to an international conflict. He specifically raised concerns about the involvement of MOSSAD, Israel&#8217;s secretive intelligence agency, and the potential for Nigeria to become a focal point for global espionage rivalry involving organizations such as the American CIA and the Russian SVR and FSB.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Professor Akintola recalled Wike&#8217;s past actions as the governor of Rivers State, where he displayed strong Christian affiliations and declared Rivers a Christian state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has issued a cautionary statement directed at the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nyesome Wike, regarding his plans to partner with Israeli security experts to enhance security measures in Abuja. &nbsp; In a statement released on Thursday, Professor Ishaq Akintola, the Executive Director of MURIC, expressed his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}