{"id":78838,"date":"2025-11-17T21:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78838"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:17:59","slug":"denying-christian-killings-in-nigeria-is-cruel-fani-kayode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/17\/denying-christian-killings-in-nigeria-is-cruel-fani-kayode\/","title":{"rendered":"Denying Christian Killings in Nigeria Is Cruel -Fani-Kayode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has criticised assertions that Christians are not being killed in Nigeria, describing the claim as \u201cinsensitive, cruel and a monstrous mendacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a now-deleted post on X, the former minister said Christians are being \u201ctargeted and killed in large numbers,\u201d adding that anyone who denies or downplays the crisis is \u201ca perfidious and specious liar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He, however, stressed that Muslims are also victims of the same terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cWhat must be clearly understood is that Muslims are also targeted and killed by the same Islamist terrorists in equal numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fani-Kayode cited recent attacks across the country to support his point, noting that the 25 girls and their principal abducted in Kebbi State, as well as the 64 people kidnapped in Zamfara, were Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the 12 girls abducted in Kaduna were Christians, while soldiers killed recently in Borno included both Christians and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>He said the terrorists \u201cdo not care about the religion of their victims,\u201d describing them as \u201cbeasts\u201d driven only by bloodshed, terror, and the desire to seize people\u2019s land and resources.<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting calls for amnesty, he said the perpetrators \u201care not worthy of life\u201d and urged the Federal Government and security forces to \u201ccrush them ruthlessly and send them back to hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fani-Kayode also warned against framing the crisis as a religious conflict or supporting foreign military intervention, saying such moves could worsen the situation and turn Nigeria into another war-torn state.<\/p>\n<p>He called on Nigerians to pray and remain united, insisting the nation must not become a battleground for foreign powers or descend into chaos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must stand shoulder to shoulder and confront the common enemy together,\u201d he said, urging support for the Federal Government\u2019s efforts to end the violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0 Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has criticised assertions that Christians are not being killed in Nigeria, describing the claim as \u201cinsensitive, cruel and a monstrous mendacity.\u201d In a now-deleted post on X, the former minister said Christians are being \u201ctargeted and killed in large numbers,\u201d adding that anyone who denies or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78838","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78840,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78838\/revisions\/78840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}