Re: ILLEGAL ISLAMIC BANKING AND THE USURPATION OF THE NIGERIAN LEGISLATURE ( A piece written by Eghes Eyieyien)
I read your wonderful piece so to say; marshaled to position your stand in reaction to the recent court's ruling by Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja, voiding Sanusi's power to establish Islamic banks.
With all sincerity, I absorb your positioning, and believe it is done in good intention without prejudice and religious intolerance, but practically on call for adherence to due process and respect of rule of law. As a law abiding citizen, I understand in good faith that the court's ruling stands till it is challenged in a court of higher jurisdiction (Court of Appeal in this case).
Be it as it may, I will like to point it out clearly that the ruling did not declare Islamic banking illegal, but rather stated that Sanusi lacks the power to establish it without a recall to the National Assembly, therefore the usage of 'illegal' is outrageous and insensitive to the feelings of organised religionists who take the banking as good as practice of their religious rites.
It is on this I will concisely state that the act of extremism is equally displayed in actions that smell intolerance and not only by gun running or maiming.
To this commentator on the initial write-up:
Aruviere Martin Egharhevva stated:
"As if JAIZ Islamic Banking is a better life support programme, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and His allies in their guise to Islamise and destabilise Nigeria introduced it to the Nigerian banking sector.
We now have President Goodluck Jonathan and President Mallam Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the constitution said we should not established any bank on any religious basis, Sanusi whom had denied of not planning to Islamise this country has again proved to it"
Rejoinder:
Jaiz and any islamic banking system is a better life support programme, and/or perceived so for those who are comfortable with it. To all rational thinkers: if options of having a loan wth interest or not is given, no one will go for that of interest, and in all developing countries and emerging economies, funds are provided for entrepreneurs with low or no interest, and this had been the catalyst for socio-economic growth in such countries. If the name 'islamic' is the scare, then simply call it a non-interest banking as being labelled in Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, France et al.
The notion that the action of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is to 'islamize' the country is ill-conceived and a signal of a divided nation by some disgruntled religious zealots who never feel comfortable for the entrenchment of co-faithfuls' rights.
You need to know the numbers of islamic banks in UK and some countries in Europe without the image casting of a religious or Islamic NATION as you erroneously concluded.
Aruviere Martin Egharhevva further stated (responding to Dr Ahmed Datti):
"I aver that Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, and deadly Islamic sect, Boko Haram, plotted to Islamise and destabilise Nigeria by secretly introducing Islamic banking against the nation's constitution"
"The southerners whom their oil is been used to run CBN will decide on what to do with their oil. Apart from Jaiz Bank, which is chaired by the former Chairman of First Bank Plc, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, two other banks have shown interest in offering Islamic banking services. In July last year, Stanbic IBTC Bank was given a provisional licence by the CBN to offer Islamic banking services while Standard Chartered Bank also opened discussions with the apex bank on starting similar services in Nigeria.
Again! The southerners whom their oil is been used to run CBN will decide on what to do with their oil"
Rejoinder:
In further pursuance of your religious extremism and illogical conclusion, linking Boko haram with Islamic banking is the least I will expect from a presumed and supposedly elite as shown in your writing. But since bigotry is not a symptom of illiteracy, I will like to assert here just as I stated earlier that you need to know what is obtainable in other countries where Christianity and Christians are more prevalent but still accommodate the running of Islamic banking, because of their understanding of its economic prosperity and need to collectively live in harmony.
In case you don't know, the clamour for Islamic banking is not a Northern agenda, but the wish and legitimate struggle to be pursued by all responsive and responsible muslims' faithfuls irrespective of the geographic location and tribal affiliation.
Further more, your submission about oil nation and oil money later painted you as a cheap ethnic chauvinist, to this I implore you to further strengthen your cause and agitation for the declaration of Niger-Delta as a sovereign state, then you can regionally claim the natural resources, but till then it belongs to NIGERIA.
On the last note, as the legal battle continues for the establishment of Islamic banking and respect of the fundamental human rights of all Muslims in Nigeria, I will like to state that if:
1. More than 10 christianity faith-based universities have not christianized Nigerians, and Muslims have not perceived it so, and
2. If our legal content and instruments being grounded and stemmed from Judeo-Christian tenets is not declared as a plot to christianize Nigeria, then any uproar or perceived inconvenience from the introduction Islamic banking is a sheer display of insensitivity, senility and philosophical absurdity to say the least.
-Semiu Ayobami Akanmu
I read your wonderful piece so to say; marshaled to position your stand in reaction to the recent court's ruling by Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja, voiding Sanusi's power to establish Islamic banks.
With all sincerity, I absorb your positioning, and believe it is done in good intention without prejudice and religious intolerance, but practically on call for adherence to due process and respect of rule of law. As a law abiding citizen, I understand in good faith that the court's ruling stands till it is challenged in a court of higher jurisdiction (Court of Appeal in this case).
Be it as it may, I will like to point it out clearly that the ruling did not declare Islamic banking illegal, but rather stated that Sanusi lacks the power to establish it without a recall to the National Assembly, therefore the usage of 'illegal' is outrageous and insensitive to the feelings of organised religionists who take the banking as good as practice of their religious rites.
It is on this I will concisely state that the act of extremism is equally displayed in actions that smell intolerance and not only by gun running or maiming.
To this commentator on the initial write-up:
Aruviere Martin Egharhevva stated:
"As if JAIZ Islamic Banking is a better life support programme, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and His allies in their guise to Islamise and destabilise Nigeria introduced it to the Nigerian banking sector.
We now have President Goodluck Jonathan and President Mallam Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the constitution said we should not established any bank on any religious basis, Sanusi whom had denied of not planning to Islamise this country has again proved to it"
Rejoinder:
Jaiz and any islamic banking system is a better life support programme, and/or perceived so for those who are comfortable with it. To all rational thinkers: if options of having a loan wth interest or not is given, no one will go for that of interest, and in all developing countries and emerging economies, funds are provided for entrepreneurs with low or no interest, and this had been the catalyst for socio-economic growth in such countries. If the name 'islamic' is the scare, then simply call it a non-interest banking as being labelled in Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, France et al.
The notion that the action of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is to 'islamize' the country is ill-conceived and a signal of a divided nation by some disgruntled religious zealots who never feel comfortable for the entrenchment of co-faithfuls' rights.
You need to know the numbers of islamic banks in UK and some countries in Europe without the image casting of a religious or Islamic NATION as you erroneously concluded.
Aruviere Martin Egharhevva further stated (responding to Dr Ahmed Datti):
"I aver that Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, and deadly Islamic sect, Boko Haram, plotted to Islamise and destabilise Nigeria by secretly introducing Islamic banking against the nation's constitution"
"The southerners whom their oil is been used to run CBN will decide on what to do with their oil. Apart from Jaiz Bank, which is chaired by the former Chairman of First Bank Plc, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, two other banks have shown interest in offering Islamic banking services. In July last year, Stanbic IBTC Bank was given a provisional licence by the CBN to offer Islamic banking services while Standard Chartered Bank also opened discussions with the apex bank on starting similar services in Nigeria.
Again! The southerners whom their oil is been used to run CBN will decide on what to do with their oil"
Rejoinder:
In further pursuance of your religious extremism and illogical conclusion, linking Boko haram with Islamic banking is the least I will expect from a presumed and supposedly elite as shown in your writing. But since bigotry is not a symptom of illiteracy, I will like to assert here just as I stated earlier that you need to know what is obtainable in other countries where Christianity and Christians are more prevalent but still accommodate the running of Islamic banking, because of their understanding of its economic prosperity and need to collectively live in harmony.
In case you don't know, the clamour for Islamic banking is not a Northern agenda, but the wish and legitimate struggle to be pursued by all responsive and responsible muslims' faithfuls irrespective of the geographic location and tribal affiliation.
Further more, your submission about oil nation and oil money later painted you as a cheap ethnic chauvinist, to this I implore you to further strengthen your cause and agitation for the declaration of Niger-Delta as a sovereign state, then you can regionally claim the natural resources, but till then it belongs to NIGERIA.
On the last note, as the legal battle continues for the establishment of Islamic banking and respect of the fundamental human rights of all Muslims in Nigeria, I will like to state that if:
1. More than 10 christianity faith-based universities have not christianized Nigerians, and Muslims have not perceived it so, and
2. If our legal content and instruments being grounded and stemmed from Judeo-Christian tenets is not declared as a plot to christianize Nigeria, then any uproar or perceived inconvenience from the introduction Islamic banking is a sheer display of insensitivity, senility and philosophical absurdity to say the least.
-Semiu Ayobami Akanmu
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