Managing Director, Africa-European Advisor Cabinet, European Union Commission for International Partnership, Ms Lora Borissora; EU Commissioner in charge of International Partnership, Ms Jutta Urpilainen; EU Ambassador to Nigeria, Samuela Isopi and President Bola Tinubu during the visit of the European Union Delegation at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday (16/10/2023)27616/19/10/2023/Callistus Ewelike/NAN
• Wants aid sent to Gaza
• Group seeks UN intervention on ceasefire
Muslim organisations under the aegis of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN), yesterday, called on President Bola Tinubu to “review” the country’s “relations with Israel until it respects international law and the rights of Palestinians.”
The council also stressed the need for Nigeria to mobilise aid to assist the people of Palestine.
At a press conference in Abuja, SCSN President, Sheikh AbdurRasheed Hadiyyatullah, described the ongoing crisis in Palestine as genocide.
He said besides its criminality and lack of humanity, it shows the failure of global institutions established after the Second World War to protect humans against tyranny.
He criticised the United States for vetoing a United Nations Resolution that called for humanitarian pauses in the war to facilitate passage of aid to Gaza.
Hadiyyatullah said the international community failed to address the root of the conflict largely because the United States has consistently offered unconditional support to what he called Zionist occupiers of Palestine.
The SCSN president added: “The Federal Government, on behalf of the teeming Muslims and Christians and people of conscience in Nigeria, should, as a matter of urgency, provide relief materials to the besieged Palestinians who are in dire need of food, clothing, medicine and other essentials.”
This came as a group, the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CCSO), called on the United Nations to prevail on Israel to halt its “war crimes”.
At a press conference in Lagos, the coalition urged nations of the world, like China, to invest in the peace process and end the monopoly of the United States.
General Secretary of United Action for Democracy, Comrade Adekunle Wizeman-Ajayi, while addressing journalists, said: “We call on the world to rise in defence of justice and on the side of the oppressed. Palestinians are humans and they cannot continue to be treated as sub-humans.”
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