The young hawk swooped on the ground and snatched a chick. When he
presented his trophy to the mother hawk, she asked, “What did the
mother say when you snatched the chick?” “Nothing!” “Nothing?” “Yes,
nothing.” “In that case return the chick!” exhorted the mother hawk.
“Never you eat a chick you snatched from a mother who offers no
protest.” This is merely a paraphrase of a parable from one of Chinua
Achebe’s novels.
The import of the parable is that the man who offers no protest to a
brazen attack is perhaps far more dangerous than he is letting out.
Fear the silent man far more than the noisy ones. Silence is not always
a response of cowardice but at times, the calm that envelopes the
thunder. The General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life
Ministry, Pastor W. F. Kumuyi is not your rabble-rousing pastor who
turns his platform into a bully pulpit from which he rails against the ills
of the society. He does rail though, in his soft, mellow voice, against
sins.
In over four decades of ministry, he has proved himself most pious,
least ostentatious, most conservative, seemingly ascetic and highly
disciplined. He is the classic turn-the-other-cheek kind of prelate
whose values and ultra-fundamentalist theology seem unaffected in
any significant way by the dynamic phases of evangelical-cum-
Pentecostal hubbub. If Kumuyi holds a political opinion, you never heard
of it beyond his routine homilies about how righteousness exalts a nation
and the need to pray more for the leaders.
It is therefore incomprehensible that in the long-running season of
madness, it is the church of such a peaceful man that Boko Haram
terrorists targeted for a most gruesome attack. Last Monday night,
Deeper Life Bible Church in Otite, Okene, Kogi State, was invaded by
terrorists who put out the generating set supplying light and in the
ensuing darkness and pandemonium, slaughtered in cold blood, 20
Christians who were studying their Bible during a vigil. The victims were
mostly women and children.
Their crime? They were studying the Bible! A crime more heinous can
hardly be found. The Boko Haram fanatics who claim credit for this
mayhem are employing this blood-curdling evil tactics to convert us all
into their variant of Islamic state, and you shudder at, what a way to
market a religion!
The attack on Deeper Life might represent a new low in evil, but it is
just another spot in a widespread carnage orchestrated by the
fanatics. As a matter of fact, it is coming on the heels of unprovoked
slaughter in Plateau State that claimed 100 lives including a senator
and a state legislator who attended the burial of victims of the same
terror.
For the first time in my experience, Kumuyi was so enraged that he
issued a statement that not only captured his outrage, but dismay at
the government’s inability to protect its citizens. “It is hard to
reconcile,” Kumuyi said, “that peace loving people, sitting in their
church, and listening to Bible Study were gunned down in cold blood by
people they had done nothing to provoke.”
Well, that’s why they are Boko Haram. Unknown to Kumuyi, with Boko
Haram, it is enough provocation that you are a human being at all, yet,
not a fanatic! For a man for whom it seems, that sugar may not melt in
his mouth, a man who weighs every word to ensure it has no
connotation of sin before he utters it, the next statement carries
more weight than what would have been the case coming from ordinary
people like us. The attack, Kumuyi deadpanned, “is not only wicked, but
utterly premeditated.”
I pity the souls of these fanatics. “The government must now come to
terms with the fact that a large swathe of Nigerians are being sent to
the grave early,” Kumuyi excoriated, “even as law enforcement agents
seem unable to provide the required protection for all of them. Without
doubt, this callous event has great negative implications for the
progress, development and well being of the nation.”
From the mouth of a well-known critic like Pastor Tunde Bakare, this
statement would have passed unnoticed, but in my memory, this must
pass as Kumuyi’s harshest indictment of government’s ineptitude in the
face of endemic national insecurity. But even then, Kumuyi was not yet
done. “This spate of killings and destructions have been going on
particularly in the northern part of our country for too long,” he added,
I suspect, with a lot of emphasis on “too long” without the government
coming up with an “enough is enough” stand.
If anything, the government has only prevaricated, not sure whether
Boko Haram is a terrorist group as Americans are demanding, a
nationalist agitators as some aggrieved political bigots would want us to
believe or an infernal religious extremists stretching the bounds of
Islamic extremism as many fear. “Each time they (killings and
destructions) occurred,” Kumuyi continued with the unfamiliar tone of
an incensed activist, no doubt, a potentially sinful imputation, I agree,
“the usual condemnations are made, but thereafter, the people are
left without any assurance of their security and safety. No nation can
continue this way.”
Taken, either as a warning or a prophetic declaration from a respected
prelate who carefully chooses his words, conscious of the fact that no
words of the Lord coming out of the mouth of His prophets must go
unfulfilled, Kumuyi’s last sentence is pregnant with meaning: “No nation
can continue this way.”
Pray, what is President Goodluck Jonathan’s answer to Kumuyi’s
challenge? If it is merely about those empty presidential rhetorics and
promises to hunt down the “perpetrators of this heinous crime and
bring them to justice” then the president should forget them. After
9/11, President George Bush found the mission of his presidency: to
defeat al-Queda and ensure they never strike again in American soil.
Over a decade down the line, not only has the leadership of al-Queda
been decapitated and the group’s evil capabilities degraded, the
terrorists have not been able to strike again at American soil, despite
all their attempts to do so. In Nigeria, what do we have? A confused,
weak and dithering leadership that does not even know whether to
declare total war on Boko Haram or to negotiate with the sect. The
absence of such tactical and strategic clarity must cascade confusion
down the hierarchy, making nonsense of the whooping N925 billion
security budget for 2012.
With porous borders stretching 4,000 kilometers and multiple
unmanned secret entry points into the country, Nigeria seems to have
descended into nestling ground for diverse global terrorism who
officially, have now infiltrated our nation with dangerous rocket
launchers (rocket propelled grenades). If the government does not act
fast to stop the terrorists from deploying their RPGs, then it means
that in the days ahead, nobody is safe from any distance. If that
happens, Kumuyi’s prophecy may turn out to be the nation’s swan
song!

ayogabriel: The young hawk swooped on the ground and snatched a chick. When he
presented his trophy to the mother hawk, she asked, “What did the
mother say when you snatched the chick?” “Nothing!” “Nothing?” “Yes,
nothing.” “In that case return the chick!” exhorted the mother hawk.
“Never you eat a chick you snatched from a mother who offers no
protest.” This is merely a paraphrase of a parable from one of Chinua
Achebe’s novels.
The import of the parable is that the man who offers no protest to a
brazen attack is perhaps far more dangerous than he is letting out.
Fear the silent man far more than the noisy ones. Silence is not always
a response of cowardice but at times, the calm that envelopes the
thunder. The General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life
Ministry, Pastor W. F. Kumuyi is not your rabble-rousing pastor who
turns his platform into a bully pulpit from which he rails against the ills
of the society. He does rail though, in his soft, mellow voice, against
sins.
In over four decades of ministry, he has proved himself most pious,
least ostentatious, most conservative, seemingly ascetic and highly
disciplined. He is the classic turn-the-other-cheek kind of prelate
whose values and ultra-fundamentalist theology seem unaffected in
any significant way by the dynamic phases of evangelical-cum-
Pentecostal hubbub. If Kumuyi holds a political opinion, you never heard
of it beyond his routine homilies about how righteousness exalts a nation
and the need to pray more for the leaders.
It is therefore incomprehensible that in the long-running season of
madness, it is the church of such a peaceful man that Boko Haram
terrorists targeted for a most gruesome attack. Last Monday night,
Deeper Life Bible Church in Otite, Okene, Kogi State, was invaded by
terrorists who put out the generating set supplying light and in the
ensuing darkness and pandemonium, slaughtered in cold blood, 20
Christians who were studying their Bible during a vigil. The victims were
mostly women and children.
Their crime? They were studying the Bible! A crime more heinous can
hardly be found. The Boko Haram fanatics who claim credit for this
mayhem are employing this blood-curdling evil tactics to convert us all
into their variant of Islamic state, and you shudder at, what a way to
market a religion!
The attack on Deeper Life might represent a new low in evil, but it is
just another spot in a widespread carnage orchestrated by the
fanatics. As a matter of fact, it is coming on the heels of unprovoked
slaughter in Plateau State that claimed 100 lives including a senator
and a state legislator who attended the burial of victims of the same
terror.
For the first time in my experience, Kumuyi was so enraged that he
issued a statement that not only captured his outrage, but dismay at
the government’s inability to protect its citizens. “It is hard to
reconcile,” Kumuyi said, “that peace loving people, sitting in their
church, and listening to Bible Study were gunned down in cold blood by
people they had done nothing to provoke.”
Well, that’s why they are Boko Haram. Unknown to Kumuyi, with Boko
Haram, it is enough provocation that you are a human being at all, yet,
not a fanatic! For a man for whom it seems, that sugar may not melt in
his mouth, a man who weighs every word to ensure it has no
connotation of sin before he utters it, the next statement carries
more weight than what would have been the case coming from ordinary
people like us. The attack, Kumuyi deadpanned, “is not only wicked, but
utterly premeditated.”
I pity the souls of these fanatics. “The government must now come to
terms with the fact that a large swathe of Nigerians are being sent to
the grave early,” Kumuyi excoriated, “even as law enforcement agents
seem unable to provide the required protection for all of them. Without
doubt, this callous event has great negative implications for the
progress, development and well being of the nation.”
From the mouth of a well-known critic like Pastor Tunde Bakare, this
statement would have passed unnoticed, but in my memory, this must
pass as Kumuyi’s harshest indictment of government’s ineptitude in the
face of endemic national insecurity. But even then, Kumuyi was not yet
done. “This spate of killings and destructions have been going on
particularly in the northern part of our country for too long,” he added,
I suspect, with a lot of emphasis on “too long” without the government
coming up with an “enough is enough” stand.
If anything, the government has only prevaricated, not sure whether
Boko Haram is a terrorist group as Americans are demanding, a
nationalist agitators as some aggrieved political bigots would want us to
believe or an infernal religious extremists stretching the bounds of
Islamic extremism as many fear. “Each time they (killings and
destructions) occurred,” Kumuyi continued with the unfamiliar tone of
an incensed activist, no doubt, a potentially sinful imputation, I agree,
“the usual condemnations are made, but thereafter, the people are
left without any assurance of their security and safety. No nation can
continue this way.”
Taken, either as a warning or a prophetic declaration from a respected
prelate who carefully chooses his words, conscious of the fact that no
words of the Lord coming out of the mouth of His prophets must go
unfulfilled, Kumuyi’s last sentence is pregnant with meaning: “No nation
can continue this way.”
Pray, what is President Goodluck Jonathan’s answer to Kumuyi’s
challenge? If it is merely about those empty presidential rhetorics and
promises to hunt down the “perpetrators of this heinous crime and
bring them to justice” then the president should forget them. After
9/11, President George Bush found the mission of his presidency: to
defeat al-Queda and ensure they never strike again in American soil.
Over a decade down the line, not only has the leadership of al-Queda
been decapitated and the group’s evil capabilities degraded, the
terrorists have not been able to strike again at American soil, despite
all their attempts to do so. In Nigeria, what do we have? A confused,
weak and dithering leadership that does not even know whether to
declare total war on Boko Haram or to negotiate with the sect. The
absence of such tactical and strategic clarity must cascade confusion
down the hierarchy, making nonsense of the whooping N925 billion
security budget for 2012.
With porous borders stretching 4,000 kilometers and multiple
unmanned secret entry points into the country, Nigeria seems to have
descended into nestling ground for diverse global terrorism who
officially, have now infiltrated our nation with dangerous rocket
launchers (rocket propelled grenades). If the government does not act
fast to stop the terrorists from deploying their RPGs, then it means
that in the days ahead, nobody is safe from any distance. If that
happens, Kumuyi’s prophecy may turn out to be the nation’s swan
song!

This is a nice commentary on Dr Kumuyi's letter, can you post the link please?

ayogabriel:

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/trending/kumuyi-and-the-boko-haram/

Thanks. That was a good write-up from Dimgba Igwe.

Kumuyi and his church members were responsible for me being a child from a broken home. I eventually lost both parents at the end. I feel very bad seeing this pastor again. I remembered my mum dragging me to his church ever since i was age 3. At the end,nothing good came out of it after being a member of his brainwashed society for 15 years. She died of illness after refusing to take drugs,claiming the man would heal her. BUNCH OF LIARS

Let us worship God and not Man.


This was Paul's opinion of himself .

"Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners--of whom I am the worst." - 1 Timothy 1:15


1 Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Ephesians 3:8 Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Everybody don't interpret the bible the same way, which atimes lead people astray only the holy spirit can teach and guide us to know the real truth

@Olaadegbu

OLAADEGBU:
Thanks. That was a good write-up from Dimgba Igwe.

You should start a thread titled, "Reasons why Kumuyi is NOT a christian and why Deeper Life is the "harlot Church".

How come kumuyi's god couldn't stop his sheep from being slaughtered like salah rams?

ayogabriel: In over four decades of ministry, he has proved himself most pious,
least ostentatious, most conservative, seemingly ascetic and highly
disciplined. It is therefore incomprehensible that in the long-running season of
madness, it is the church of such a peaceful man that Boko Haram
terrorists targeted for a most gruesome attack.

lol, wonder why his piety didn't serve as enough protection.

ayogabriel: Last Monday night,
Deeper Life Bible Church in Otite, Okene, Kogi State, was invaded by
terrorists who put out the generating set supplying light and in the
ensuing darkness and pandemonium, slaughtered in cold blood, 20
Christians who were studying their Bible during a vigil. The victims were
mostly women and children.

Maybe like Obama, Kumuyi and the poor folks studying their bible stories were not "REAL Christians".

ayogabriel: The attack on Deeper Life might represent a new low in evil,

No it doesn't represent a "new low in evil", it was just the "Harlot Church" of Kumuyi getting it's just due. Right, Olaadegbu? lol

It beats any rationale imagination to see people you would assume are normal, indirectly supporting the masacre of innocent christians in the name of being partisan. All people of goodwill should join voices to condem this and other henious and dasterdly crimes committed in our beloved nation. No one should support it covertly or overtly as its a crime against humanity. Supporting it will energize the perpetrators and as the proverbial wind that blows no one any good, no one knows who is next.

I am very certain that the long arm of the law (natural and divine) will catch up with them and their sponsors sooner or later. "Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil" Ecclesiates 8:11. May God Almighty console the families of those who have lost loved ones and may He speedly heal those that have been injured physically and emotionally.

@Ifeness: I quite empathize with you. Please take heart ok. I understand what it means to feel the pains of parental separation and loss. If I were in your shoes, I will feel the same way too. Please allow God to touch your aching heart and bring healing to it. Your parents have lived their own lives and passed on. You must objectively review their lives with the aim of learning from where they may not have gotten it right. Blaming other people for their short falls in life may not eventually help your own life journey and decisions. The choices we make in life determines how we turn out ultimately. In all honesty, I have never heard Kumuyi telling anyone not to take medications when they are ill. I personally know a lot of nurses and doctors in his church. We learnt from the media that his late wife sought medical help before she eventually passed on. In the case of the Kogi shootings, we have read in the papers they are in the various hospitals in Kogi and he has prayed for their quick recovery. Let us not blame others for how we turn out in life.

ravgach: @Ifeness: I quite empathize with you. Please take heart ok. I understand what it means to feel the pains of parental separation and loss. If I were in your shoes, I will feel the same way too. Please allow God to touch your aching heart and bring healing to it. Your parents have lived their own lives and passed on. You must objectively review their lives with the aim of learning from where they may not have gotten it right. Blaming other people for their short falls in life may not eventually help your own life journey and decisions. The choices we make in life determines how we turn out ultimately. In all honesty, I have never heard Kumuyi telling anyone not to take medications when they are ill. I personally know a lot of nurses and doctors in his church. We learnt from the media that his late wife sought medical help before she eventually passed on. In the case of the Kogi shootings, we have read in the papers they are in the various hospitals in Kogi and he has prayed for their quick recovery. Let us not blame others for how we turn out in life.

Thank for the kind words.I have certainly moved on long time ago,although it cost me a mother,brother and otherwise. I definitely do not support killing of humans,whether innocent or not. His church members are a total reflection of his teachings. They see him as a leader,therefore he is responsible for the huge negative effect it tells on them. Deeper life as far as i know makes one anti-human, they look down on everyone and yet do not have what it takes to contribute to the economy and society at large.

@ifeness: I see you are still bitter against this group. You make general statements that are not verifiable. Society improves when majority members of that society say and do things honestly and objectively. Human nature though sometimes make us have colored view about issues because of how it has affected us. As leaders of tomorrow and people striving for a better society, we must endeavour to say and do things objectively. This is not just when it comes to religion but in all aspects of life. Some people today slander their parents claiming they never did anything for them. When you check well, you find out their parents have trained them to at least secondary school but because they are not satisfied with that, they just say THEY NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR THEM. It would have been honest to say they trained us but we wanted more. Saying that kumuyi and his group do not have what it takes to contribute or are not contributing to society, is not an objective assessment at all. It's just like someone who dislikes you saying you are useless to society. It will not be fair to you because if you are not a criminal, if you have written, said or done anything positive, working or schooling, then you are contributing immensely to society. It is always good to address squarely issues that you do not like about someone, people or a thing and check up if you are actually right about those issues than making general statements of hate or attacking peoples character. I do not know if you believe in God and if you worship Him. If you do sincerely, you will never, never cut people down no matter the pressue you are under.