BY: NewsPeddlers
The leadership of the Taraba state chapter of the TEKAN ECWA Church Blog, has issued a seven day ultimatum to the federal government to arrest and prosecute the clerics involved in the alleged video making the rounds in the state and the country at large.
The viral video clip which was attributed to some Islamic clerics outside the state, according to the church, is not only threatening religious crisis, but also at the verge of dividing the people along religious lines.
More to that, they also expressed dismay that the alleged clerics through the video,are "at the same time advocating for Islamic Sharia government in the state following the the emergence of a Christian guber candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state".
The group who on Wednesday through it chairman Rev Philip Micah Dopah,
expressed sadness at the video clip, urged both the government at the center and the security operatives to as a matter of urgency put in place mechanisms that would halt the outbreak of religious upheaval in the state.
In doing that, the government, and the security operatives, as suggested by the church, should step in and "apply laws appropriately on those trying to undermine the peace of the state by bringing them to book".
Stressing how the state has been coexisted peacefully from time immemorial not minding the faith one professed, the church, as stated by Dopah "condemned the ungodly utterances, coming from people who supposed to champion the course of peace, unity, and tolerance."
Dopah who went ahead to labelled the clerics in question as "enemies of peace in the state and promoters of violence, hate and disunity" beckoned at the people of the state irrespective of their religious differences to rise up and resist such calls.
The church who also condemned in strong terms the religious demographic composition in which the Clerics said Muslims constitute 65% of the entire population of the state, described the assumption as false.
The church, as made known by Dopah "observed that Christians have been the determinants of the electoral process because of their population and have maintain the tempo since the advent of the state since 1991 and that Muslims have been enjoying the Deputy Governor's slot."
While appealing to Christian in Taraba to remain calm and go about their activities peacefully the Church, as made known by him "will continue to speak out against any calculated attempt to destabilize the peace in the state."