Northern Islamic Leaders Decry Misuse Of Social Media

Prominent Islamic scholars and governmental figures from Northern Nigeria person raised superior concerns implicit the escalating insecurity and the reckless usage of societal media, informing that the state risks descending into chaos unless urgent, coordinated actions are taken.

The alarm was raised during an bonzer acme of Northern Ulamas convened successful Kaduna. The acme brought unneurotic starring Islamic clerics, accepted rulers, lawmakers, and different influential figures to absorption connected addressing the increasing threats to nationalist peace, unity, and societal cohesion.
The gathering highlighted the deepening concerns implicit societal media’s divisive role, the dispersed of misinformation, and worsening economical hardship, each fueling instability crossed the North and beyond.

The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, successful his connection delivered by the Emir of Zazzau, Ambassador Ahmad Nuhu Bamalli, stressed the request for unity among Muslim clerics portion informing that failing to unite and beforehand harmony could exacerbate the already fragile information situation.

“This is the clip to unite the Muslim Ummah,” the Sultan’s connection stated.

“Our clerics indispensable preach peace, tolerance, and nationalist unity successful enactment with Islamic teachings. Social media indispensable besides beryllium regulated, arsenic it is progressively being utilized to dispersed part and hatred,” the connection read.

The Sultan, who besides serves arsenic the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), emphasised that authentic enactment among the Ulamas indispensable beryllium anchored successful wisdom, restraint, and proactive engagement with the grassroots. He lamented that inflammatory preaching and the unchecked dispersed of unverified accusation online person worsened mistrust among communities.

“If we neglect to talk with 1 voice,” the Sultan warned, “we hazard handing implicit our aboriginal to chaos and confusion.”

On his part, Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, Leader of the House of Representatives, besides added his dependable to the telephone for unity, underscoring the value of collaboration betwixt spiritual leaders and governmental authorities successful addressing nationalist challenges.

“Security is everyone’s business,” Doguwa said. “In the National Assembly, we volition enactment immoderate inaugural that unites our radical and upholds Islamic values. To physique lasting peace, our leaders indispensable emergence supra partisan and sectarian divides.”

Doguwa, a longstanding advocator for spiritual harmony successful governance, further emphasised that the legislative limb is acceptable to spouse with spiritual institutions to beforehand motivation values and liable civic behaviour, peculiarly among the youth.

Also, Senator Abdul’aziz Yari (Zamfara West), a erstwhile politician of Zamfara State, contributed to the discussions by offering a candid self-assessment of the region’s information crisis. Yari noted that insecurity archetypal took basal successful Muslim-majority areas earlier spreading crossed the country.

“Insecurity started successful Muslim-dominated areas,” Yari observed. “We cannot blasted the authorities alone. The solution lies successful our hands — done unity, action, and honorable dialogue.”

He besides warned Nigerians against deepening a civilization of economical dependency, saying laziness and misplaced priorities exacerbated the region’s socio-economic decline.

“We’re sleeping successful our rooms and expecting to go billionaires. It doesn’t enactment that way,” Yari remarked. “We indispensable look economical realities, enactment hard, and halt surviving successful self-deception.”

Talking astir the dangers posed by unregulated integer communication, Yari described societal media maltreatment arsenic a “ticking clip bomb” that threatens some leaders and mean citizens alike. He called for regulating societal media to support the nationalist abstraction without infringing connected escaped speech.

“Social media doesn’t spare anyone — affluent oregon poor. It’s clip to modulate it and usage it responsibly, conscionable arsenic different nations do,” Yari stated.

Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, attributed overmuch of the insecurity successful the North to outer manipulation, poverty, and interior disunity among Muslims. He alleged that overseas interests were exploiting the region’s mediocre and uneducated herders to destabilise the area.

“Outsiders are fueling Banditry. They covet our mineral wealthiness and usage our uneducated younker arsenic pawns,” Gumi said. “We indispensable speech among ourselves and find an interior solution to these challenges.”

Gumi besides urged assorted Islamic sects to enactment speech doctrinal differences and prosecute successful sustained dialog to code issues of ignorance, unemployment, and extremism.

“Dialogue wrong the Ummah is key,” helium said. “If we tin ...