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Amidst growing concerns about the recent killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen in the country, including two Catholic priests and 15 other worshippers in Benue State, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign.

The CBCN urged President Buhari to stop presiding “over the killing fields and mass graveyard” that the country had allegedly become and choose the part of honour by considering “stepping aside to save the nation from total collapse.”

The CBCN made the call in a communique signed by its President, Most Rev. Augustine Akubeze, and Secretary, Most Rev. Camillus Umoh, and made available to The PUNCH on Thursday evening.

The bishops, in the communique titled, “When will this barbarism end?” condemned the increasing attacks by the suspected herdsmen, whom they said had turned the country into a massive graveyard.

They also described the killing of the priests and 15 parishioners in the Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State on Tuesday as a dastardly act that was “carefully planned.”

The communique read in part, “That our two priests, Fr. Joseph Gor and Fr. Felix Tyolaha, along with their parishioners were waylaid in the course of the celebration of the Holy Mass early in the morning, suggests very clearly that their murder was carefully planned. This wicked act cannot be said to be a revenge attack (as is often claimed).

“Whom have these priests attacked? Indeed, we have just discovered that on January 3, this year, Fr. Gor tweeted, ‘We are living in fear. The Fulani are still around here in Mbalom (where they (priests) were killed). They refuse to go. They still go grazing around. No weapons to defend ourselves.’

“Their desperate cries for security and help went unheeded by those who should have heard them. They could have fled but, true to their vocation, they remained to continue to serve their God unto death.”

The communique continued, “We are sad. We are angry. We feel totally exposed and most vulnerable. Faced with these dark clouds of fear and anxiety, our people are daily being told by some to defend themselves.

“But defend themselves with what? The Federal Government, whose primary responsibility it is to protect lives, for its part alleges that those who ask the people to defend themselves are inciting them to take the laws into their own hands. But how can the Federal Government stand back while its security agencies deliberately turn a blind eye to the cries and waillings of helpless and harmless citizens who remain sitting ducks in their homes, farms, highway and now, even in sacred places of worship?”

The Catholic bishops lamented that in spite of several calls on the President in the last two years to reconfigure his security apparatus and strategy, “which the President has deliberately placed in the hands of the adherents of only one religion,” and the lack of confidence expressed by the CBCN in the security agencies, the bloodletting and destruction of homes and farmlands had increased “with intensity and brutality.”


They also noted that the rate of insecurity in Nigeria had become an embarrassment in the international community, as the Catholic body found it difficult to continue to give excuses about the continuous killings in the country, where “a nation’s landscape is littered with the bodies of its own citizens.

“We are sad and fear that the clock is ticking. The bomb must be defused quickly before it explodes,” the statement added.

It continued, “Since the President, who appointed the heads of the nation’s security agencies has refused to caution them even in the face of the chaos and barbarity into which our country has been plunged, we are left with no choice but to conclude that they are acting a script that he approves of. If the President cannot keep our country safe, then he automatically loses the trust of the citizens.

“He should no longer continue to preside over the killing fields and mass graveyard that our country has become. Repeated calls from us and many other Nigerians on the President to take very drastic and urgent steps to reverse this ugly tragedy that threatens the foundation of our collective existence and unity as a nation have fallen on deaf ears.

“It is clear to the nation that he has failed in his primary duty of protecting the lives of the Nigerian citizens. Whether this failure is due to inability to perform or lack of political will, it is time for him to choose the part of honour and consider stepping aside to save the nation from total collapse.”

The bishops further advised Nigerians to be courageous and stand for their fundamental rights to life and security, even as it faulted the recent mop-up exercise by the Nigeria Police, “since those we pay to protect us have failed to do their duty.”

The statement added, “Government should encourage and empower citizens to secure themselves and their environments. This is not the time to disarm people with legally procured weapons of self defence.

“These are not normal times, since those we pay to protect us have failed to do their duty. Nigeria can return to normal times, if we put our heads together with sincerity.”

http://www.punchng.com/killings-catholic-bishops-ask-president-buhari-to-resign/

Now truth is finally hitting home

Hmmmm

Jazzlite:
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Amidst growing concerns about the recent killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen in the country, including two Catholic priests and 15 other worshippers in Benue State, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign.

The CBCN urged President Buhari to stop presiding “over the killing fields and mass graveyard” that the country had allegedly become and choose the part of honour by considering “stepping aside to save the nation from total collapse.”

The CBCN made the call in a communique signed by its President, Most Rev. Augustine Akubeze, and Secretary, Most Rev. Camillus Umoh, and made available to The PUNCH on Thursday evening.

The bishops, in the communique titled, “When will this barbarism end?” condemned the increasing attacks by the suspected herdsmen, whom they said had turned the country into a massive graveyard.

They also described the killing of the priests and 15 parishioners in the Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State on Tuesday as a dastardly act that was “carefully planned.”

The communique read in part, “That our two priests, Fr. Joseph Gor and Fr. Felix Tyolaha, along with their parishioners were waylaid in the course of the celebration of the Holy Mass early in the morning, suggests very clearly that their murder was carefully planned. This wicked act cannot be said to be a revenge attack (as is often claimed).

“Whom have these priests attacked? Indeed, we have just discovered that on January 3, this year, Fr. Gor tweeted, ‘We are living in fear. The Fulani are still around here in Mbalom (where they (priests) were killed). They refuse to go. They still go grazing around. No weapons to defend ourselves.’

“Their desperate cries for security and help went unheeded by those who should have heard them. They could have fled but, true to their vocation, they remained to continue to serve their God unto death.”

The communique continued, “We are sad. We are angry. We feel totally exposed and most vulnerable. Faced with these dark clouds of fear and anxiety, our people are daily being told by some to defend themselves.

“But defend themselves with what? The Federal Government, whose primary responsibility it is to protect lives, for its part alleges that those who ask the people to defend themselves are inciting them to take the laws into their own hands. But how can the Federal Government stand back while its security agencies deliberately turn a blind eye to the cries and waillings of helpless and harmless citizens who remain sitting ducks in their homes, farms, highway and now, even in sacred places of worship?”

The Catholic bishops lamented that in spite of several calls on the President in the last two years to reconfigure his security apparatus and strategy, “which the President has deliberately placed in the hands of the adherents of only one religion,” and the lack of confidence expressed by the CBCN in the security agencies, the bloodletting and destruction of homes and farmlands had increased “with intensity and brutality.”


They also noted that the rate of insecurity in Nigeria had become an embarrassment in the international community, as the Catholic body found it difficult to continue to give excuses about the continuous killings in the country, where “a nation’s landscape is littered with the bodies of its own citizens.

“We are sad and fear that the clock is ticking. The bomb must be defused quickly before it explodes,” the statement added.

It continued, “Since the President, who appointed the heads of the nation’s security agencies has refused to caution them even in the face of the chaos and barbarity into which our country has been plunged, we are left with no choice but to conclude that they are acting a script that he approves of. If the President cannot keep our country safe, then he automatically loses the trust of the citizens.

“He should no longer continue to preside over the killing fields and mass graveyard that our country has become. Repeated calls from us and many other Nigerians on the President to take very drastic and urgent steps to reverse this ugly tragedy that threatens the foundation of our collective existence and unity as a nation have fallen on deaf ears.

“It is clear to the nation that he has failed in his primary duty of protecting the lives of the Nigerian citizens. Whether this failure is due to inability to perform or lack of political will, it is time for him to choose the part of honour and consider stepping aside to save the nation from total collapse.”

The bishops further advised Nigerians to be courageous and stand for their fundamental rights to life and security, even as it faulted the recent mop-up exercise by the Nigeria Police, “since those we pay to protect us have failed to do their duty.”

The statement added, “Government should encourage and empower citizens to secure themselves and their environments. This is not the time to disarm people with legally procured weapons of self defence.

“These are not normal times, since those we pay to protect us have failed to do their duty. Nigeria can return to normal times, if we put our heads together with sincerity.”

http://www.punchng.com/killings-catholic-bishops-ask-president-buhari-to-resign/

Bamoski and strikethem will not agree

Lzaa onyeoga shallysgirl

I thought they said its farmers and herdsmen clash.

Animal kingdom

ideology:
I thought they said its farmers and herdsmen clash.

Animal kingdom

So priests are herders or farmers?!

Jazzlite:

So priests are herders or farmers?!

ask the Nigerian Army, and why is Mayeti Allah leader walking free...

ideology:
ask the Nigerian Army, and why is Mayeti Allah leader walking free...

Ask your mentor Buhari.

I have been calling for the resignation of Buhari for 2 years now and it time all Nigerians come to together to ask Buhari to leave us in peace ... Buhari is the worst specimen of human character ..we are dealing with a character that is 10 times more wicked than Al Bagdadi and 100 times more cunning ...The bitter truth is that Buhari has a bipolar disorder that makes him errorneously feel he is Nigeria's Messaiah in the day time while at night he is Usman Danfodio fighting a Jihad to complete the work Danfodio couldn't ... Buhari is a dangerous psychopath mistakening Nigeria for the 18th century and he a re-incarnatiion of another psychopath called Usman Dan Fodio...Impeach Buhari , get him to resign , vote him out !!! Do what you must but this must be his last tenure.

if u ar still supportin d buffon called buhari, u ar not only myopic but Wicked!

where is father mbaka ? tell buhari the truth nw o ur fake.

Jazzlite:

Ask your mentor Buhari.

hahahaha

Y na!

Wetin I do you?

He will resign

immhotep:
Bamoski and strikethem will not agree
Lzaa onyeoga shallysgirl

sai babarism defies logic

LZAA:

sai babarism defies logic

imhotep lzaa onyeoga and that old wasted prostitute that keep tagging thems are all deranged bewitched blood thirsty demons who take pleasure in the gruesome killings of innocent people.

Nairalanders please take note of those muddy pigs

bamoski:


imhotep lzaa onyeoga and that old wasted prostitute that keep tagging thems are all deranged bewitched blood thirsty demons who take pleasure in the gruesome killings of innocent people.

Nairalanders please take note of those muddy pigs

sai baba!! sai caliphate!!!

bamoski:


imhotep lzaa onyeoga and that old wasted prostitute that keep tagging thems are all deranged bewitched blood thirsty demons who take pleasure in the gruesome killings of innocent people.

Nairalanders please take note of those muddy pigs

we don notice you! Can we now rest
Cc immhotep lzaa

OnyeOGA:

we don notice you! Can we now rest
Cc immhotep lzaa

Bush man, make una stop to de spam my mentions.

I never find better people attention finish na idiotic pigs of biafra agberos I go seek their mumu attention

bamoski:


Bush man, make una stop to de spam my mentions.

I never find better people attention finish na idiotic pigs of biafra agberos I go seek their mumu attention

bamoski, how is sai baba na

lzaa onyeoga

WATCHOVER:
He will resign

If he fails to resign...the judgements of God will fall on him.

Mathiasonumejor:




If he fails to resign...the judgements of God will fall on him.

Gbam, na so

bamoski:


immhotep lzaa onyeoga and that old wasted prostitute that keep tagging thems are all deranged bewitched blood thirsty demons who take pleasure in the gruesome killings of innocent people.

Nairalanders please take note of those muddy pigs

But you will go home now and start dreaming about an Igbo wife

cc itsmeaboki buhariguy pointzerom iceberg3

Just like that