PRESS RELEASE: KNOWISLAM PROJECT CALLS ON SECURITY AGENCIES TO INVESTIGATE EVANGELIST EZEKIEL DACHOMO OVER INFLAMMATORY ANTI-MUSLIM RHETORIC AND STATEMENTS THREATENING NATIONAL PEACE

November 8, 2026

The KnowIslam Project is deeply concerned by the increasingly inflammatory rhetoric of Evangelist Ezekiel Dachomo, whose campaign for justice over the killings in Jos and other parts of Plateau State appears to have descended into an alarming pattern of hostility towards Islam and Muslims.

While the murder of innocent people, irrespective of their religious identities, deserves unequivocal condemnation, no campaign for justice should become a platform for religious hatred, collective blame, incitement or the demonisation of an entire religious community.

What began as advocacy for victims of violence has increasingly been accompanied by statements that cross the boundaries of legitimate religious expression and enter the dangerous territory of anti-Muslim hostility.

Dachomo has publicly referred to Allah as a demon and a bloodsucker, language that is not an indictment of any individual perpetrator of violence but a direct attack on the religious beliefs of millions of Muslims. Such rhetoric is deeply irresponsible, particularly coming from someone who occupies a position of religious influence.

More concerning is the pattern of subsequent statements in which he has portrayed Muslims as an existential threat to Christians and called on Christians to rise and fight.

TURNING NATIONAL TRAGEDIES INTO RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACIES

In his latest video, Dachomo escalated this rhetoric by calling on Christians, including Christians serving in the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force, to stand up and fight for their survival. He warned that otherwise, they would become prey in what he described as the “SUPREME COUNCIL OF ISLAMIC SATANIC AGENDA.”

This is an extraordinary and dangerous characterisation of a religious community and its institutions.

The statement is particularly troubling because the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in Nigeria (NSCIA) is a recognised national Islamic institution. To portray an Islamic institution as the headquarters of a satanic agenda, while simultaneously urging Christians in the armed forces to fight for survival, is rhetoric that risks deepening religious suspicion within institutions that are constitutionally obligated to serve all Nigerians without religious discrimination.

Even more disturbing is his interpretation of the deaths of 32 Nigerian Air Force personnel in an aircraft crash.

Dachomo claims to have conducted his own research and concluded that more Christians than Muslims died in the incident. He subsequently presented this alleged religious disparity as evidence of an Islamic terrorist agenda.

His statement, available here, deserves serious public scrutiny:

Video: Ezekiel Dachomo’s claims concerning the Air Force crash

An aircraft crash that claims the lives of Nigerian military personnel is a national tragedy. It is not an invitation to manufacture religious conspiracies. The deaths of officers should be investigated through established aviation and military investigative procedures, not interpreted through unsupported religious arithmetic.

If the religious composition of casualties is now sufficient grounds to allege a religious conspiracy, what happens to the cohesion of our armed forces? What happens to the trust between Muslim and Christian personnel who serve, sacrifice and defend the same country?

Nigeria cannot afford religious entrepreneurs who turn every tragedy into another opportunity to manufacture enemies.

OUR DEMANDS

The KnowIslam Project calls on the following Islamic organisations and other relevant stakeholders to take this matter seriously and pursue appropriate institutional and legal action:

1. Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN): We call on the association to examine the statements in question and consider appropriate legal steps, including a formal petition to the relevant authorities.

2. Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC): We urge the organisation to formally challenge this pattern of anti-Muslim rhetoric and demand accountability through lawful channels.

3. Muslim Public Affairs Centre (MPAC): We call on the organisation to join other stakeholders in demanding responsible public discourse and accountability from religious figures whose statements threaten peaceful coexistence.

4. Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA): The Council must not remain indifferent to the repeated public demonisation of Islam and Muslims, particularly when its institutional identity is being invoked in an inflammatory narrative. We urge it to formally petition the relevant authorities and seek appropriate redress.

We also call on other Islamic organisations, civil society groups, interfaith institutions and concerned Nigerians to condemn religious incitement consistently, regardless of the identity or religious affiliation of the person responsible.

THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT MUST ACT BEFORE THE CONSEQUENCES BECOME IRREVERSIBLE

We call on the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Nigeria Police Force, the Department of State Services (DSS) and other relevant security agencies to take these statements seriously.

Evangelist Ezekiel Dachomo should be invited for questioning and asked to account for his statements, particularly his appeals to Christians in the Nigerian military to prepare to fight and his allegations of an Islamic terrorist agenda behind the deaths of military personnel.

The authorities must establish whether his statements constitute incitement, threats to public order or any other offence under applicable Nigerian law.

This is not a call to suppress legitimate religious expression or prevent anyone from demanding justice for victims of violence. It is a call for the enforcement of the law and the protection of every Nigerian, regardless of religious affiliation.

The Nigerian Government must not wait until inflammatory religious rhetoric translates into violence before intervening. We have witnessed the devastating consequences of religious suspicion, collective blame and inflammatory mobilisation in this country. We should not need another national tragedy to understand the urgency of this matter.

No religious leader should be permitted to turn the pain of victims into a licence to manufacture hatred against another religious community.

JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS MUST NEVER BECOME A JUSTIFICATION FOR HATRED

The KnowIslam Project reiterates that the murder of Christians in Plateau State and elsewhere is unacceptable. The perpetrators must be identified, prosecuted and punished in accordance with the law.

But Muslim lives matter equally. Muslim communities have also suffered killings, displacement and attacks. Their suffering must not be erased, dismissed or treated as less deserving of justice.

We reject the idea that protecting one religious community requires demonising another. We reject the characterisation of Islam as a terrorist conspiracy. We equally reject attempts to mobilise Nigerians along religious lines through fear, suspicion and inflammatory rhetoric.

Nigeria belongs to Christians, Muslims and Nigerians of other beliefs. No religious leader owns the country, and no religious leader has the authority to turn its citizens against one another.

The government must act. Religious institutions must speak. And those who use their platforms to threaten the peace of the country must be held accountable under the law.

The pursuit of justice must never become an instrument of religious hatred.

Issued by:
KnowIslam Project

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