…Urges Tinubu to order IGP, CP Zamfara to release Zainab to Christian leaders.
…Alleges parents disown him, his 3 kids killed, wife snatched when he converted to Christianity.
…Alleges 1 also slaughtered, 1 leg broken in Borno for converting to Christianity.
by Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been called upon to order the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to direct the Commissioner of Police, Zamfara State, to release the lady, who converted to Christianity from Islam, to Christian leaders in the state.
A Kanuri Borno-born Civil Rights Activist-cum Director-General, Centre for Justice on Religious and Ethnicity in Nigeria, Rev. Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa, made the call in a statement Thursday, revealing that some Islamic laws dictated that Muslims, who converted to Christianity, have committed crime, “ridda,” suspecting that “All these denial by the Zamfara State Government officials are strategies to cover the matter and to hot or kill Zainab in cold blood, under the Islamic law.
“In some of Islamic laws, if someone leaves Islam to Christianity, he/she has committed a crime (ridda). We are suspecting that all these denials by the Zamfara State Government officials it’s a strategy to cover the matter and to hot or kill her in cold blood under the Islamic law,” he stated, saying he was a victim.
He further revealed that, “I’m giving this detailed information as a insider and, based on experience in the year 1994, about 30 years ago – when I converted from Islam to Christianity, and my own uncles together with my own biological parents took over my wife and 3 children from me and gave my wife to someone; till date, I never set my eyes on my wife, and my 2 children have been killed because of my Christian faith.”
He continued, thus: “Therefore, we are calling for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to give order to the Inspector-General of Police to warn the Commissioner of Police, Zamfara State, to release the lady to the Christian leaders in the state.
“This issue of Muslim lady, by name, Zainab Muhammad, that converted to Christianity from Islam is taking another deferent dimension or direction.
“Zamfara State Government and entire Muslim community from the northern region is using Islamic strategy to diverting the attention of Nigerians and the whole world from the reality that is going on about Miss. Zainab Muhammad’s converting to Christianity from Islam.
“Zainab Muhammad converted to Christianity from Islam, and has been arrested and detained in Police custody in Gusau Zamfara State because she left Islam and accepted Christ as her Lord and personal savior.
“She is in police custody for over 3-to-5 days now, but the way that we are seeing report from Zamfara State Government and one media house, ‘Muslim News Nigeria,’ which claimed that the picture of the lady used by Sahara Reports is not picture of the lady converted to Christianity, and nothing like that has taken place in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital.
“Yes, we agree that it’s not the picture of the lady that converted to Christianity from Islam that has been used by Sahara Reports, but there is a lady, called Zainab Muhammad, who converted to Christianity from Islam and detained by the Nigerian Police Force in State Command.
“But, because of the strategy behind the Islamic agenda, Grand Khadi the Chief of the Islamic Shari’a jihad law, government officials of Zamfara State, Islamic organization came out, and including Muslim News Nigeria denied the facts because they have already put strategy on ground to deal with this lady.
“We are aware of even the Police Commissioner in Zamfara State Command denying that no lady in custody in the state because of changing her religion, from Islam to Christianity.
“Meanwhile, there are some lawyers that are following the case, who updated us with the vital information that she is in the Police custody in Gusau, the state capital, and police refused to grant her bail. Even the lawyers are afraid – for threat to their lives.
“I’m giving this detailed information as a insider and, based on experience in the year 1994 – about 30 years ago – when I had converted from Islam to Christianity, and my own uncles together with my own biological parents took over my wife and 3 children from me and gave my wife to someone; till date, I never set my eyes on my wife, and my 2 children have been killed because of my Christian faith.
“In some of Islamic laws, if someone leaves Islam to Christianity, he/she has committed a crime (ridda). We are suspecting that all these denials by the Zamfara State Government officials it’s a strategy to cover the matter and to hot or kill her in cold blood, under so-called ‘Islamic law.’
“Therefore, we are calling for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to give order to the Inspector-General of Police to warn the Commissioner of Police, Zamfara State, to release the lady to the Christian leaders in the state. Thank you, and God bless you all.
“The 19 Northern States’ Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) leadership should also not continue to be keeping silent and leaving Nigerians in darkness concerning Zainab Muhammad’s issue,” he stated, saying, “A person’s leg was broken over conversion in Borno.”
He also revealed that, “Late Baba Modu Wakili, a Kanuri man, who converted to Christianity from Islam early 80s, worked and retired from one organization of COCIN Church, called ‘Kanuri Project,’ was killed.”
The statement added that, “And, after his (Wakilli’s) retirement, he relocated to another area of Maiduguri, called Moduganari, to his new house that church bought for him; but the Muslim linked him to Boko Haram membership and killed him.
“Another new Muslim convert, by name Usman Isa, they took over his wife from him and slaughtered him in presence of his little 7 years’ old child, all in Maiduguri in year 2012.”
He stressed that, “We are informed that Zainab Muhammad, who converted to Christianity from Islam, will be handed over to Christian leaders Thursday, in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital.
“The State Government debunked the report earlier, that nothing like that take place in the state, and made the media houses – particularly the Sahara Reports and some journalists (reports) – as if they don’t know what they are doing; and even described and accused them of trying to create “religious tension” or crisis in the country and that they are not professional journalists.
“But now that Zainab Muhammad is with Department of State Security Service (DSS) Command in the state, and there are plans on how to hand over Zainab Muhammad to the Christian leaders, please, let us judge ourselves: who is fooling who? Christian leaders in Nigeria must very wise in defending your followers,” he said.
Rev. Dikwa also speaks with Zainab’s lawyer, saying, “On the 20/05/2025, when the information of Zainab Muhammad, the Muslim lady converted to Christianity from Islam, and she was arrested and detained at police custody in Gusau the Zamfara State capital, I quickly searched for the phone number of lawyer that handling the matter, and called him, around 11:46 pm.
“We spoke for 13 minutes 9 seconds and he updated me on what was going on about Miss Zainab Muhammad in the police custody. And, according to the lawyer, he was surprised about the behavior of Police officers towards Zainab Muhammad’s case, and promised to send some documents for me to get the details of what is going on.
“But the next day, 21/05/2025, I called the lawyer, he did not pick up my calls till date; and I was told that some Christian leaders from the northern region warned the lawyer not to be communicating with me or send any documents concerning Zainab Muhammad’s matter, because, if Rev. Dikwa got the detailed information about the matter, Dikwa will expose it to the whole world.
“No problem; I have no issue about that. But we are waiting for her handing over to the Christian leaders till today.
“Thank you. Yours sincerely, Rev. Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa, Director-General, Centre for Justice on Religious and Ethnicity in Nigeria: 0803 349 7229,” the statement narrated.