Comments on: A Muslim’s Thought on Christian Banking in Nigeria

By: Oloto Sam

Oloto Sam — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:08:53 +0000

This debate haas been unnecesarily over blowing. since Sunusi of CBN is yet to be removed cant we forge ahead and forget the religious intricacies with economic development

By: Sister Radiat

Sister Radiat — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:30:49 +0000

Great post. I was checking continuously this blog and I’m impressed by the quotation from the bible to buttress your arguement and debate! Very useful information specifically the last part 🙂 I look forward to more useful information to enlighten the public. I was looking for this particular info for a long time. Thank you and good luck.

By: Farida Musa

Farida Musa — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:22:06 +0000

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi just disclosed this:”I have never known anything called tribalism. A very senior cleric in the church accused me of removing christians from decision making positions in CBN. I became Gov in 2009, the term of the CBN board of Directors expired. I recommended a board for reappointment to President Yaradua, out of the 11 members on the board, only 3 are Muslims. The Monetary policy Committee of the CBN which I constituted has 7 members, only 1 is a muslim. A Deputy Governor’s seat became open when I was Governor, Dr. Kingsley Moghalu was in Geneva. I went, convinced him to come back to Nigeria and convinced the President to appoint him. On our 5 member Committee of Governors(COG), 3 are Christians, 2 are Muslims. We have 24 Departmental Directors in CBN that I appointed, only 8 are Muslims. These are the people who took this decisions on Islamic Banking(IB). The Director of Financial Policy n Regulation who signed and issued the guidelines on IB,his name is CHRISTIAN Chukwu. He reports to DG in charge of Financial Systems Stability, Dr K. Moghalu. The report comes to the COG of 5, 3 of them are Christians. It goes.to a board(CBN) of 11, 8 of them are Christians. Then all these Christians must be bad Christians if they are part of an attempt to Islamise Nigeria.I dont want to engage people. I can discuss this on religious ground. I can qoute from Exodus, Deutronym and Leviticus. I have sources from St Augustine, St Ambrose,St.. And different Popes, Clement, up to Pope Benedict VI, I have qoutes on IB. I can debate on religious grounds and prove to anybody based on the Bible. In fact the Natural Council of Christianity at one time said anybody who gives usury (interest) should not be buried in a catholic cemetry. I can debate with anybody on Religious grounds based on the bible and the teachings of the Church that Usury is less consistent with christian teachings.”

By: simmon Paul

simmon Paul — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:35:30 +0000

It’s perfect time to make some plans for the longer term and it is time to be happy. I’ve read this publish and if I may I desire to suggest you few interesting things or suggestions. Maybe you could write next articles referring more to how Muslims and Christians should live happily together including the jews. I wish to read even more things about it!

By: Zainab Umar

Zainab Umar — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:29:22 +0000

Thank you for this piece, i hope and pray that more Nigeria should learn to read between the lines and be objective in policies made than to base their objection on such policies on self centerness.

By: Ladele femi

Ladele femi — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:25:02 +0000

Mr Shuaib, well done for such a nice and informative article, preaching co-existence of citizens of Nigeria regardless of their ethnic or religious afflictions. Thank you.

By: Adejokun

Adejokun — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:24:59 +0000

I really think that its not necessary like Inokotong said to continue to discuss this matter. Mallam Shuaibu, I am a Christian but I do not want to live under the Canon Law. There was a time in history when the Church dabbled into politics and there was a lot of attrocities. It was during this time that the infamous Crusades happened. We should also remember the good number of great souls wasted for so-called heresies when the Church was in control. Great scientists who first suggested that the earth was not round but spherical were excommunicated the beheaded while tied to a stake.
Religion should not be mixed with politics. It is there in the Bible that usury should be avoided. It is even there to forgive all debts after every seven years.
Alhaji, would you advocate that we start this kind of banking where debts would be written off every seven years and at jubillee?
My take on the so-called Islamic banking is that Sanusi is only trying to promote his religion with state resources otherwise, the scheme would simply have been termed Non-interest banking and it would still have served the same purpose.
States do not start such schemes. States device means of regulating cultures and traditions and that is after they have emerged.
I submit

By: Craig Addy

Craig Addy — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:02:31 +0000

Oga

just do your PR work and leave us to argue our issues. People have right to argue on any policy or proposition that govt brings forth.
it is now in Govts place to look at those arguments, leverage it against the best interest of the populace(society) and take a stand(even though it might seem painful and punishing at the time).
You sitting down on your PC to quote portions of the bible puts to question your ability to analyze and understand issues(maybe u have been parochial and biased all this while that i have been following your texts.For the records, the bible is not what you quote,it is what you read to understand in its entirety.
We dont just read the bible to see the do and do not, we read it understand the reasons behind them and the peculiarities of the times and era’s that the instructions were issued and how to relate it to our present day realities( i dont know how the koran works so i dont attempt to analyse it).Dont get me wrong Shuaib,
I am a Christian.I dont see anything wrong with Non-Interest Banking, i only believe that it should be properly structured and that we should be careful not to use the common wealth of all(including revenues from taxes on cigarettes,alchohol gambling etc) to support and promote the interest of a certain section.
One other thing, Tunde Lemo is a deputy gov at the CBN, His pastorial attributes did not get him the appointment to that position rather his strides and achievements in the financial sector did. So please address him professionally and not the way you (and Sanusi) are doing to promote your interest.

By: Santos Leonardo Muhammed

Santos Leonardo Muhammed — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:02:22 +0000

A well researched and explained work; less the proponents forgot in a hurry, the CBN Governor (Joseph Sanusi) that initiated Islamic Banking is a Christian; what is more? UK, US and Italy have branches and units of Islamic Banking operated and headed by Christians. There was never a moment, aside the passing of the bill by the house of common, that the issue was discussed as regards its plan to “Islamize” the West….., a heave a heavy sigh for my Christian leaders, rather than clamour for better ways of putting the nation ahead to meet its challenges and fostering a future devoid of differences, they chose to preach sentiments and distrust. God help our nation!!!

By: sty1

sty1 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:11:31 +0000

The people of Nigeria will soon have their fill of meddling with religion.Why introduce Islamic Banking at this critical religious stage in this country. If all you want is non-interest banking, fine, licenses can be given to any bank who want to operate that, why come out openly and call it Islamic banking!

I think this how highly insensitive the people in the realm of affairs are to very sensitive issues in our country and people that are doing this are highly unreasonable. Religion is a highly sensitive thing and not what should be meddled with anyhow. We have never learned from history.The story of Indian/pakistan should be a warning lesson that playing with religion can bring untold suffering and death. Turkey is around 98% muslim yet she paractises secularism why not Nigeria which is a mixed religion state. Everybody should practise his religion in his own home and leave the public alone.Or because it is your body do you now have to go naked in public and dont care about other people feeling. Nigeria need to rethink.

Then Arabic on our currency? Someone need to tell what it is doing there? Have we been colonised by Arabs? Or do we have any indigenous language like Arabic in Nigeria? if we want more languages why not Kanuri or Efik.We are even thinking on how we can develop ourself so that every Nigerian can have working knowledge of the three major Nigerian languages.I just dont no how some people think. Maybe we need to tell some people this is not Saudi Arabia or Holysee. So Sanusi has run out of idea the only way to boost our economy is by introducing the ever sensitive religious based Islamic banking so openly on national scale? Good.

We will all see when this religion thing get to the brink, it will burst over( though it has already started) and there will bloodshed but my only concern is that it is the masses like me and u and our family that will suffer, because all this funny people that are inciting the religion thing have all the means to escape their family. And still some of us will never reason right.

I pitied Nigerian people who always show lack of wisdom and are blinded by sentiment.