Sheikh Goni and the hypocrisy of the Nigerian Media

By Sani Danaudi Mohammed

Everyone, including good people will do bad things.That’s the nature of humans.We all have flaws. We all commit sins. Nobody is perfect. But learn from your mistakes and try to become a better person with each passing day.It’s never too late to change.

These are words of wisdom from one of the leading Islamic Scholar in the world Sheirk Mufti Menk. My heartfelt condolences are with the immediate family of a renown Islamic Scholar from Yobe State Sheikh Muhammad Goni over his gruesome murdered by one Lance Corporal John Gabriel.

It was rather unfortunate that a man of his kind and magnitude was killed by a someone he assisted not knowing that it was killer. killing a Sheirk who had offered to help you because of your service to the country as a military personal is the highest level of mistrust ever one can even imagine.

This scenario are few among other reasons why the general public lost confidence on those who are trained,paid and provided with necessary up keep to protect the lives and properties of Nigerians.The late Shriek Goni crime was his ability to offered assistance to a man whose job earned him the trust he betrayed by killing him.

It is the worst betrayal of public trust for a soldier who was trained to protect the people to use his weapon for criminal purposes. It’s disgraceful for a uniformed man to be involved in such heinous crime.The military profession is not for misfits; it’s not for anyone who joins up because it’s the only job available. It’s a profession for refined and responsible gentlemen and women.

A profession that is respected by all and sundry as “MARMARI DAGA NESA” is gradually fading away because of the activities of corporal John Gabriel and his likes. Laxity in our recruitment processes have indeed rewarded us back with uprofessionalism and criminality of all kinds in various Ministeries, Departments and Agencies to the Security Sector.

If there is one single sector where love and patriotism to Nigeria is the Military/Securities.Be that as it may, those moral decedence are now fading away because of the recruitment Process that chased away competency and credibility to who you know.Bad eggs have been brought in to replace the good ones through political recruitment process mostly in compensation of political thugs.The person in question May be a beneficiary of such toxic recruitment Process who ended up as a killer of someone he was commissioned to protect.

The Nigerian Media and the activist been celebrated by pundits are not different from this same criminals for their silent over the grusome murdered of this noble personality.Sheirk is the highest rank one may have as an Islamic Scholar. If not because of the purification of the information like facebook,Twitter and host of others,his immediate family would have been in jeopardy without the public space having it own share of this barbaric and evil act.

I therefore call on the Federal Government and the Chief of Army Staff to as a matter of urgency to ensure justice is serve begond the media pages. Negligence has disastrous consequences and multiple negative effects on the generality of all. This must be stop now otherwise it will stop us later.

May Almighty Allah have mercy on the soul of this servant of Almighty who died actively Serving humanity and his creator.

Ubangiji Allah jikan ka da Rahama Ameen.