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Written by Fidelis Mac-Leva, Jalingo
Thursday, 29 October 2009 22:29

he compulsory prayers introduced by Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State for staff of the Government House in Jalingo last year has recorded some casualties as the governor yesterday ordered the suspension of three workers for failing to attend the prayers for a period of time in spite of repeated warnings.



Those affected are two female journalists attached to the Government House press crew, Deborah Jonathan of the state owned television outfit and Hilda Adebayo of the state radio. The third victim is the personal assistant to the Governor’s Special Adviser on Security, Ahmed Ben, whom the governor ordered to be transferred out of the Government House for the same reason.

Suntai was said to have handed down the directive during the compulsory morning prayer session for Christians at the Government House Praise Chapel after going through the attendance registrar.

So prayer nah by force.

Ignorance. . . .

WHO IS THIS SUNTAI FELLOW, Na local government chairman?

Fashola dey build road, Akwa Ibom dey do airport, Bayelsa dey open Castle

E no do anything and e wan begin pray for second term.

TARABA PROPLE WAKE UP.

Is this true? Wonder o!

Get down on your knees, you bastards, and stay there till the Lord asks you to get back up.

See Governor?

it's time for Nigeria to have its own version of the ACLU

this can't allowed in a secular country.

is this mandatory prayer to a specific god/religion or is this a moment for them to pray in thier own religion and in thier own way?

Na Naija we dey. Anything fit happen. Nothing in this Country surprises me anymore.

Why dis obeying if that is in the curriculum of the working code?
I am not suggesting the law is the best or not, rather concern about the "disobedience"

Nigerians and religion!

Is it by force to pray for the Gov., his family and nigeria?

Is there no way they could sue him? It could be a good case to test our religious freedom in this country.

Religion is seeping into all aspects of Nigerian life without limit. Not good.

Ehnnnnnnnn, because of prayer, The gov is ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Deluded muderfuckers.Illusions in the face of reality and people wonder why we are backward.

We are not getting it,we need to pray to ourselves for our existence,we are the gods,the devils,the angels,the demons,what we are is just our subjective imaginations,nothing is certain but consciousness.

9ja is bless

Naija nd their over-bearing religious attitude.
Anyway, itz not our fault.
Na poverty cause am.

Dis' what we are talking about.

i was wondering why davidylan and co were missing from this thread -

then i just saw that the governor is a christian

if he had been a muslim our islamwatchnazis would be all over the thread and it would have grown to 40 pages

Religion is one huge determining factor in Nigeria's unity and to be specific the underlying relationship between the south and the north. By the grace of God we will find and develop points of mutual understanding. Sharia should not be a state wide law in any part of Nigeria. The christians have no alternative laws and seems like a direct opposite to sharia law. May God, touch the hearts of the hardline religious nigerian northerners for them to understand that Nigeria will not be governed like saudi arabia or like anyother third world middle eastern nation. They are little things to be learned from every nation, hopefully as a team of different faiths in Nigeria, when studying such programs, we can stick to the best of intentions.

oyb:


then i just saw that the governor is a christian

if he had been a muslim our islamwatchnazis would be all over the thread and it would have grown to 40 pages

There's clearly no shortage of religious bigots on both sides.

3 times a day during the working day, pray, for how long each time?

Religion is poisoning the Taraba State government; this time, it is the Christian type.

Morons.
.

absolute power corrupts absolutely. what if i am an atheist?

please do bring religion into this.

Nigerians are just extreme with everything. is prayer meeting by force now?? according to which constitution or code? the stupid thing is if the workers decide to sue, the judicial system is just messed up and it will take years to rule on the case. why do we like to impose ourselves on others in this country?? its annoying

He wants the people to pray that the people will not notice that he's stealing the peoples' money! What kinda prayer backed self-perpetuating act of corruption is that?!.

oyb:



i was wondering why davidylan and co were missing from this thread -

then i just saw that the governor is a christian

if he had been a muslim our islamwatchnazis would be all over the thread and it would have grown to 40 pages 

Right on bro! In fact when I saw it was just 2 pages I guessed the gov must be christian. . . well whadoyouknow!. . .

good riddance to bad nonsense

these guys r unbelievable
i wonder what that guy has done 4 his state
and he is up nd about, forcing people to pray. . .in this modern day, some people still have that stone age mindset.
rubbish!

This governor is trying to set up the people. While they'll be closing their eyes, kneeling down & up and praying; he would be standing up and running with their money to the bank.