- Safiu Kehinde
Former Nigerian Super Eagles captain, Ahmed Musa, has clarified his comment on the killing of 16 Northern travellers at Uromi community in Edo state.
NPO Reported that Musa had in a post on his X handle on Saturday decried the killing of the travellers who were claimed to be Hausa hunters.
The former Leicester City player’s comment was met with backlash as netizens accused him of being biased and sentimental, questioning him for his silence during the murder of 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Deborah Samuel, in Sokoto.
Reacting in a separate post on X handle on Monday, Musa expressed his disappointment with the misinterpretation of his earlier post on the incident.
The current Kano Pillars player debunked claims of religion sentiment as he disclosed that his born to a Christian mother and a Muslim father.
Musa maintained that his reaction was about humanity, stressing that deliberate loss of lives is unjustifiable.
“It’s unfortunate that my previous post was misunderstood by some; albeit by people who dont know me. For perspective sake, my mother was Christian and my father Muslim.
“As someone who was raised to know both religion, it means anything that happens in this country affects me either way. That said, my words were never about religion—they were about humanity. We should NEVER justify loss of lives.
“It’s painful to see how quickly people jump to division instead of understanding. Must we always see things through the lens of religion, tribe, or politics? When innocent lives are lost in such a horrific way, the first thing we should feel is compassion, not argument.
“At the end of the day, we are humans first—before religion, before language, before race. If we lose sight of that, then what’s left of us?” Musa wrote.