By Bashir Adefaka

Seven days after Ogun State-based Islamic cleric, Ustadh Abdul Ganiyy Jumah and his wife, Muinat, were abducted at gunpoint, the couple are yet to be found.

As at press time, no official statement has been made by the Police on the issue.

Meanwhile, a Northern Muslim leader and Arewa Consultative Forum chieftain, Captain Muhammad Joji, in a chat with Vanguard in Kaduna, expressed fear that what had for a long time been the lot of the Northern Muslims was now being transfered to bear on Muslims in the South West. He however noted that Muslims in the South-west kept quiet while their brothers in the North were either being railroad to jail or killed in the name of Boko Haram.

However, a family source told Vanguard yesterday that all checks at some police divisional headquarters, SARS offices in Lagos and Ogun states proved abortive.

Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, in a press statement, recently, kicked against what it described as unfortunate way of treating people for being devouted Muslims.

Director of the organisation, Professor Ishaq Lakin Akintola, charged Nigerian security agencies to produce the Islamic cleric and his wife whose abduction was already creating tension amongst Muslims in the South West.

“We remind the security agents that nothing warrants such night invasion since there is no state of emergency in the region. We demand the immediate release of the Muslim couple or their arraignment in court within 48 hours of arrest according to the provisions of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“We suspect that this may be the beginning of a crackdown on Islamic clerics in the South as part of the silent war on Islam. Our suspicion is informed by the allegation that another Lagos-based Islamic scholar also disappeared last week. The puzzle surrounding the disappearance of Razaq Gawat, a very popular Lagos-based Islamic socialite and TV personality is yet to be explained 24 months after,” he said.

MURIC’s Director, Professor Akintola, had also posted on his facebook, Tuesday, that a check at the Zone 2 Command of the Nigerian Police by his security liaison officer, Alhaji Ibrahim Jomoh proved negative.

Vanguard further gathered that efforts had been intensified to locate the abducted Muslim couple.

According the family source, “This matter was widely publicised on Monday, in some major newspapers and broadcast on the electronic media. Since then, there has not been any reaction from the security agencies and even the government to say whether or not they know anything about the whereabouts of our brother and his wife.”

When Vanguard visited Fagbemi Street, Ntabo, Ijoko, the residence of the Islamic cleric recently, an eye witness who gave account of the abduction said: “It was about 3am on Saturday at a time we were offer