NIGERIA: MUSLIM OFFICIALS DISMISS CHRISTIANS FROM POSTS
School librarian, others forced to leave after requesting land for chapel.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, October 24 (Compass Direct News) – Asabe Ladagu, a Christian widow in this capital city of Borno state in northern Nigeria, has survived without income the past 16 months. It was that long ago, the former librarian told Compass, that Muslim administrators at Ramat Polytechnic forced her into early retirement – without pay – after she and others requested land to build a chapel.The Christians viewed the denial as deliberate discrimination against Christians by Muslim administrators at a time when there were seven mosques on campus.
Difficulties in the state emerge against a backdrop of violence still fresh in the memory. Under the guise of protesting cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper, Muslims in Borno killed 57 Christians and burned over 52 churches.
“One Catholic priest was also killed, and in my church, the Church of Christ in Nigeria, Gambaru local congregation, 82 women and two pastors were injured,” Adamu said. “I and my associate were attacked by Muslims too. All my theological books worth over 1.5 million naira were destroyed when the pastorate was burned by Muslim militants.” Source.
tHIS IS A NATURE OF A sTATE THAT DISCRIMINATES. pROGRESS CANNOT BE RECORDED IN SUCH AN ENVIRONMENT. i WAS ONCE A STUDENT OF THE rAMAT pOLYTECHINC. tHERE ARE MANY MOSQUES ON CAMPUS, WHY SHOULD CHAPEL BE BUILT ON CAMPUS. tHE ONES LOOKING FOR THAT RIGHT ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AND EVEN FORCED TO RETIRE. bORNO IS REALLY A sTAE THAT IS NOT CONSIDERATE AT ALL.
cATEGORICALLY WHAT AM SAYING IS THAT, IF THERE ARE MOSQUES ON CAMPUS IN rAMAT pOLYTECHNIC mAIDUGURI, THEN DEFINITELY CHAPEL MUST BE BUILT. i USED TO REMEBER AS fcs STUDENTS WE WORSHIPPED IN LECTURE HALL, WHILE MOSLEMS HAVE MOSQUES WHILE SHOULD THAT HAPPEN. bORNO SATE SHOULD RECONSIDER ITS POSITION AN ALLOW CHAPELS TO BE BUILT IN ALL CAMPUSES AS FAR AS THERE ARE CHRISTIANS ON CAMPUS.
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the above story is a lie and baseless above all considering the number of muslims when compared with their christain counterparts ,they were given all the necessary treatment they deserve and previllages.
they are over 50 churches around the polytecnic with which the various christain sects worship. as reported asabe ladugu was retired based on the sixty years of age or thity years of service as provided by the civil service act.
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