PFN attacks Gumi for staged funerals remarks

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The Islamic cleric Sheik Ahmad Gumi’s comments that Christians in the Middle Belt were holding funerals to stage genocide were denounced by the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, or PFN, on Saturday.

The PFN characterized Gumi’s remarks as morally repugnant in addition to being insensitive and careless.

Remember that Gumi had said that Christians in the Middle Belt were fabricating a story of genocide by burying empty coffins?

But in a statement headlined “Rebuttal of Ahmad Gumi’s false and dangerous claim,” the Christian organization’s National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Sylvanus Ukafia, claimed that Gumi’s assertion was unfounded, provocative, and falls apart at the first glance.

The statement reads: “We strongly condemn the recent statement by Ahmad Gumi alleging that Christians in the Middle Belt are “burying empty coffins” to fabricate a narrative of genocide.

“This claim is baseless, inflammatory, and collapses under the slightest scrutiny.

“Across Nigerian cultures Christian, Muslim, and traditional — there is no practice of burying empty coffins.

“Funerals are communal, identity-based rites anchored on real names, real families, and real histories. The idea that entire communities are staging fake burials without a single whistleblower or inconsistency is not only illogical but deeply insulting.

“Gumi’s allegation rests entirely on an unnamed ‘doctor’ without any verifiable details: no name, no location, no evidence, no photos, no timestamps. This is hearsay masquerading as fact.”

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