{"id":466922,"date":"2011-07-24T02:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T02:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/24\/can-erupts-on-islamic-banking-reps-failed-nigerians\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T02:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T02:30:38","slug":"can-erupts-on-islamic-banking-reps-failed-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/24\/can-erupts-on-islamic-banking-reps-failed-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN erupts on Islamic banking: Reps failed Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BY SAM EYOBOKA<\/p>\n

Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday, expressed disappointment at the House of Representatives endorsement of the controversial Islamic banking in Nigeria, saying the act smacks of bowing to an already written script.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the endorsement by the lawmakers after a briefing by the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, CAN national president, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, described what took place at the hallowed chambers as a sham.<\/p>\n

A statement\u00a0 by the CAN president said the members of the House have failed to pacify Nigerians who have called for the scrutiny of the CBN governor\u2019s attempt to Islamize the country.<\/p>\n

According to him, the Christian community and well meaning Nigerians\u00a0 are disappointed at what happened at the House of Representatives on Thursday, because the members could not muster the courage to ask very salient questions agitating the minds of the people.<\/p>\n

For instance, Oritsejafor said, \u201cthey failed to ask the CBN governor very probing questions about the workability of the Islamic banking, the plot to Islamize the country which has already began with the reintroduction of Arabic symbols in the nation\u2019s currency notes, and why Mallam Sanusi is using state funds to promote Islamic banking.\u201d<\/p>\n

He averred that well meaning Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief when all the major news media carried reports that the House of Representatives, after its plenary on Tuesday, summoned the CBN governor to explain the apex bank\u2019s stand on Islamic banking and the decision to peg daily cash withdrawal limit by individuals at N150,000 and N1million for corporate customers effective 2012.<\/p>\n

Oritsejafor further argued that the Christian community in Nigeria, which has been kept in the dark all along over the CBN\u2019s quest for Islamic banking at the expense of other pressing economic issues, has raised eyebrows over the workability of the policy which appears to be another attempt to Islamize the nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was why we were happy at the cheery news of the House of Representatives\u2019 invitation to the CBN governor to explain his role in the controversial Islamic banking,\u201d he said, \u201cbut we were shocked that the honourable members did not even ask the Islamic scholar any questions apparently because he used the occasion to bamboozle them. Instead, what we witnessed was a blanket endorsement of the policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we saw on television was, to say the least, a sham; little wonder people have continued to call for a sovereign national conference to address some of the socio-economic problems militating against the nation.,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n

Oritsejafor\u00a0 argued that the Christian community had asked\u00a0 several questions which nobody had found answers to; including the return of Arabic symbols on the nation\u2019s currency, after they were removed for three national languages during the Obasanjo regime.<\/p>\n

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