The Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion has condemned the way the President Muhammadu Buhari–led Federal Government is handling the menace of herdsmen in the country

Rising from its 2018 synod at the St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Amawbia, the Bishop of Awka Diocese, Dr. Alex Ibezim in his charge wondered why the Fulani herdsmen were being handled with kid’s glove.

In the Bishop’s charge with the theme, ‘Mission, the heart of God,” the church urged Buhari to stop treating the killers with levity.

The synod noted that a group that had killed thousands of Nigerians should not be treated as kinsmen.

The church regretted that the return of democracy in 1999 that ought to be a kind of political liberation had been allowed to divide Nigerians into religious and ethnic cleavages.

The charge added, “Nigeria, a major oil producer and Africa’s most populous nation and second-largest economy, is facing challenges. Most political parties are much more concerned about upcoming elections rather than the burning issues of the country.

“Political liberalisation ushered in by the return to civilian rule in 1999 has allowed militants from religious and ethnic groups to pursue their demands through violence.

“Separatist aspirations have also been growing, prompting reminders of the bitter civil war over the breakaway Biafran republic in the late 1960s.

It added that Nigeria while still reeling from the Boko Haram insurgency and its numerous atrocities, another terrorist group, which he referred to as Fulani herdsmen, sprouted.

The church said, “The group has done enough havoc to be acknowledged by the global community as the fourth deadliest terror group in the world.

The church noted that between 2014 and 2018, herdsmen had killed over 1,229 people across the country with Benue, Taraba, Nassarawa, Plateau, Kaduna and Katsina as the worst hit states.

The church added,” They are armed with sophisticated weapons and usually attack their target communities at a time they are most vulnerable such as at midnight or on Sundays when they are in church, killing people indiscriminately and burning houses and looting properties.

“Most worrisome is the brutality and impunity with which the assailants operate without regard for the law and the sanctity of human life. The Nigerian police and even the military seem powerless to defend the victims from being mercilessly slaughtered in their homes.

“It is unfortunate that this level of criminal impunity is happening in a sovereign nation with a constitution which declares that the security and welfare of the citizens shall be a major responsibility of the state.

“Perhaps we need to ask why the police and the military are incapable of protecting the farmers from violent attacks by Fulani herdsmen. Is it true that the Fulani militias are better armed and sometimes outnumber the police?

“Why is it difficult for the Federal Government to contain the terror of the Fulani militia? Who are those arming the Fulani herdsmen to unleash mayhem on innocent and defenceless Nigerians?”

The synod wondered what President Muhammadu Buhari silence on the issue could mean, stressing that “Nigerians are tired of speeches and condolence messages to victims.

They added, “If this country will continue to remain as one, then those who perpetrate crime must be dealt with accordingly without minding whose ox is gored.”

On the 2019 general elections, the synod urged politicians not to pursue it “with senseless desperado and indiscretion.”

It described Buhari’s anti-corruption fight as lopsided and ineffectual.

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/05/stop-treating-herdsmen-as-kinsmen.html

Nice one

Remember Bishop Ibezim many years ago as a young Rev.Canon @ St. Michael's Anglican Church,Coker...

Anyways what he had said isn't new to anyone.
The President has simply turned a blind eye to the security situation in that part of the country,perhaps to be seen as a 'god' and as one whose ambition is first to his clan.
I do not think there is anything anyone will say that will change his heart,with all Security agencies from that side........it's same story
Security in the country as a whole is at an alarming low
Death seems very normal these days
I used to remember how I dodge graphic pix here,but nowadays I be baba ,imagine life....Those who prepare evil,will be 1st victims

Some are waiting on God
Faith without works is meaningless
Work and pray
#gogetyourpvc

Okay, he will stop.

I have some regrets and the topmost is voting for Buhari 3yrs ago.

Buhari is a terrorist


It is in his DNA not to declare his fellow killers as terrorists....

Any one who supported the reelection of Jonathan after his brothers as he famously called them wiped out over 13000 Nigerians under his watch due to his self indictment of treating terrorism with gloves hands have no moral justification to question my support for Buhari despite killer herdsmen killings which is an obvious multiplier effect of the poor handling of BH and other criminal elements in the last administration.


Idiotic pigs are permitted to mention me.

They are his kinsmen.

Fulani herdsmen are terrorist and should be treated so.
The fulani militia who kill and maim defenceless Nigerians are funded and equipped by the cow owners, the cattle rearer who carries the cow about give the militias information's on the farmer and villages he has conflicts with before the killings occur. They are all terrorist

What is happening now is that buhari have failed to protect non fulani nigerians thereby allowing his kinsmen to recruit more fulani terrorist from other african countries in other to establish territory.
The only way out is to declare them terrorist

Morbeta11:
I have some regrets and the topmost is voting for Buhari 3yrs ago.

You will surely continue regretting till 2023!

buhari issa terrorist

progress69:
Any one who supported the reelection of Jonathan after his brothers as he famously called them wiped out over 13000 Nigerians under his watch due to his self indictment of treating terrorism with gloves hands have no moral justification to question my support for Buhari despite killer herdsmen killings which is an obvious multiplier effect of the poor handling of BH and other criminal elements in the last administration.


Idiotic pigs are permitted to mention me.

the worst disease in the world today is been a zombie..my dear its irredeemable..after ur moronic president will come to our great country ghana and promise to pight kwarupshion....goan tell buhari with ur fellow stewpeep bmc crew that they are all mad.

progress69:
Any one who supported the reelection of Jonathan after his brothers as he famously called them wiped out over 13000 Nigerians under his watch due to his self indictment of treating terrorism with gloves hands have no moral justification to question my support for Buhari despite killer herdsmen killings which is an obvious multiplier effect of the poor handling of BH and other criminal elements in the last administration.


Idiotic pigs are permitted to mention me.

But we all remember it was people like Buhari who put pressure on Jonathan not to go hard on Boko Haram initially when he said " any attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north" .....The failure of Jonathan in tacking Boko Haram properly lies with Nothern elders like Buhari who tribalised and sabotaged the fight against terrorism to the point that even soldiers of northern extraction refused to fight Boko Haram but will instead abandon superior equipment and ammunition for them in the Name of tactical retreat... Jonathan's fight was so much sabotaged by the northerners in the military that he had to no choice than purchase just 100 fighters from executive outcomes of South Africa who turned the War around in just two weeks before people like Buhari started calling for their removal again

That is one of the last thing Buhari-the evil bigotwill ever do.

Tell him...... Even though his ear infection might not allow him to hear you

Interesting

9Ebisco:
The Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion has condemned the way the President Muhammadu Buhari–led Federal Government is handling the menace of herdsmen in the country

Rising from its 2018 synod at the St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Amawbia, the Bishop of Awka Diocese, Dr. Alex Ibezim in his charge wondered why the Fulani herdsmen were being handled with kid’s glove.

In the Bishop’s charge with the theme, ‘Mission, the heart of God,” the church urged Buhari to stop treating the killers with levity.

The synod noted that a group that had killed thousands of Nigerians should not be treated as kinsmen.

The church regretted that the return of democracy in 1999 that ought to be a kind of political liberation had been allowed to divide Nigerians into religious and ethnic cleavages.

The charge added, “Nigeria, a major oil producer and Africa’s most populous nation and second-largest economy, is facing challenges. Most political parties are much more concerned about upcoming elections rather than the burning issues of the country.

“Political liberalisation ushered in by the return to civilian rule in 1999 has allowed militants from religious and ethnic groups to pursue their demands through violence.

“Separatist aspirations have also been growing, prompting reminders of the bitter civil war over the breakaway Biafran republic in the late 1960s.

It added that Nigeria while still reeling from the Boko Haram insurgency and its numerous atrocities, another terrorist group, which he referred to as Fulani herdsmen, sprouted.

The church said, “The group has done enough havoc to be acknowledged by the global community as the fourth deadliest terror group in the world.

The church noted that between 2014 and 2018, herdsmen had killed over 1,229 people across the country with Benue, Taraba, Nassarawa, Plateau, Kaduna and Katsina as the worst hit states.

The church added,” They are armed with sophisticated weapons and usually attack their target communities at a time they are most vulnerable such as at midnight or on Sundays when they are in church, killing people indiscriminately and burning houses and looting properties.

“Most worrisome is the brutality and impunity with which the assailants operate without regard for the law and the sanctity of human life. The Nigerian police and even the military seem powerless to defend the victims from being mercilessly slaughtered in their homes.

“It is unfortunate that this level of criminal impunity is happening in a sovereign nation with a constitution which declares that the security and welfare of the citizens shall be a major responsibility of the state.

“Perhaps we need to ask why the police and the military are incapable of protecting the farmers from violent attacks by Fulani herdsmen. Is it true that the Fulani militias are better armed and sometimes outnumber the police?

“Why is it difficult for the Federal Government to contain the terror of the Fulani militia? Who are those arming the Fulani herdsmen to unleash mayhem on innocent and defenceless Nigerians?”

The synod wondered what President Muhammadu Buhari silence on the issue could mean, stressing that “Nigerians are tired of speeches and condolence messages to victims.

They added, “If this country will continue to remain as one, then those who perpetrate crime must be dealt with accordingly without minding whose ox is gored.”

On the 2019 general elections, the synod urged politicians not to pursue it “with senseless desperado and indiscretion.”

It described Buhari’s anti-corruption fight as lopsided and ineffectual.

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/05/stop-treating-herdsmen-as-kinsmen.html

Punch article http://punchng.com/stop-treating-herdsmen-as-kinsmen-bishop-tells-buhari/

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SalamRushdie:



But we all remember it was people like Buhari who put pressure on Jonathan not to go hard on Boko Haram initially when he said " any attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north" .....The failure of Jonathan in tacking Boko Haram properly lies with Nothern elders like Buhari who tribalist and sabotaged the fight against terrorism to the point that even soldiers of northern extraction refused to fight Boko Haram but will instead abandon superior equipment and ammunition for them in the Name of tactical retreat... Jonathan's fight was so much sabotaged by the northerners in the military that he had to no choice than purchase jut 100 fighters from executive outcomes of South Africa who turned the War around in just two weeks before people like Buhari started calling for their removal again

Don't mind the zombie that you just mentioned.

Anything that has a beginning must have an end. Book haram is dying down, so shall herdsmen's attacks.

Truth e told

too many Aboki's in our govt. they are all in support ,not only buhari

Herdsmen are presently roaming free because Buhari and his political appointees support the herdsmen in their murderous quest.

Buhari's tenure would come to an end and another tenure would come.

Fulani herdsmen would face the wrath of more than 200 ethnicities and they'll regret that Buhari failed to stop them while making this mistake, but it would be too late.

Each day brings us closer to that day.

Buhari's handling of the Fulani menace will be his greatest undoing in 2019. It's quite unfortunate that some people keep supporting him. I ask myself, are these supporters so inhuman or they are immune to what is happening around them? The primary responsibility of government is securing lives and property of its citizenry.

Nice 1

this herd men Mata tire me sef.
I don't kw if buhari Sud be blamed, or mayb "there is indeed sm1 tryan to sabotage his govt"

based on common sense I don't thk buhari will b stupid enof to use this kinsmen wen bringing in d violence..
or mayb he may b tryan to play a fast one on critical thinkers like me...


God bless Nigeria....

SalamRushdie:



But we all remember it was people like Buhari who put pressure on Jonathan not to go hard on Boko Haram initially when he said " any attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north" .....The failure of Jonathan in tacking Boko Haram properly lies with Nothern elders like Buhari who tribalised and sabotaged the fight against terrorism to the point that even soldiers of northern extraction refused to fight Boko Haram but will instead abandon superior equipment and ammunition for them in the Name of tactical retreat... Jonathan's fight was so much sabotaged by the northerners in the military that he had to no choice than purchase jut 100 fighters from executive outcomes of South Africa who turned the War around in just two weeks before people like Buhari started calling for their removal again

Stop replying stupid people on Nairaland. They will never say the truth

This Bishop gat jokes. He should stop treating his kinsmen as kinsmen

His brothers and cousin

Naija leaders are good in begging and manipulating processes to win elections....and after that they will put on the caps of fake religion and glasses of tribal colouration.

SalamRushdie:



But we all remember it was people like Buhari who put pressure on Jonathan not to go hard on Boko Haram initially when he said " any attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north" .....The failure of Jonathan in tacking Boko Haram properly lies with Nothern elders like Buhari who tribalised and sabotaged the fight against terrorism to the point that even soldiers of northern extraction refused to fight Boko Haram but will instead abandon superior equipment and ammunition for them in the Name of tactical retreat... Jonathan's fight was so much sabotaged by the northerners in the military that he had to no choice than purchase jut 100 fighters from executive outcomes of South Africa who turned the War around in just two weeks before people like Buhari started calling for their removal again

Where and when did Buhari say attack on Boko Haram is attack on the north?
When I say you are a bitter dumb ass, you will think I'm just saying things.

I think say na WATCH and Pray

fergie001:
Nice one

Remember Bishop Ibezim many years ago as a young Rev.Canon @ St. Michael's Anglican Church,Coker...

Anyways what he had said isn't new to anyone.
The President has simply turned a blind eye to the security situation in that part of the country,perhaps to be seen as a 'god' and as one whose ambition is first to his clan.
I do not think there is anything anyone will say that will change his heart,with all Security agencies from that side........it's same story
Security in the country as a whole is at an alarming low
Death seems very normal these days
I used to remember how I dodge graphic pix here,but nowadays I be baba ,imagine life....Those who prepare evil,will be 1st victims

Some are waiting on God
Faith without works is meaningless
Work and pray
#gogetyourpvc

adisabarber:


Stop replying stupid people on Nairaland. They will never say the truth

Yes...Tribal loyalty has blinded the souls of many. Until we are majorly ready to look at issues on neutral grounds, we are not going anywhere. Our leaders and our power players always play the game of religions and tribes so as to keep sucking the blood our mother nation without any hindrance.