maybanks: BEWARE OF POLITICAL MASQUERADES IN THE CHRISTIAN FOLD
STATEMENT BY THE FORUM OF UNITED NIGERIANS AGAINST DIVISIVE ELEMENTS, FUNADE
This Christian Awake message is either from politicians masquerading as concerned Christians and there are many or from a truly misinformed concerned person.
But let us set out the facts. There is no truth at all in the allegation that Buhari is a Jihadist or is in support of Fulani herdsmen killings.
Let us first remind ourselves that it was under a Christian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo that 12 Northern States of Nigeria declared Sharia law. If this had happened under a Fulani President, you can imagine what the religious politicians would say.
Second it was under a Christian President, Goodluck Jonathan that the Boko Haram insurgency arose. The religious politicians who were benefiting from Jonathan, who he gave N7billion in February 2014 to share amongst themselves, then said Buhari and APC were Islamists who were behind the Boko Haram to make the country ungovernable for Jonathan.
The lies continued until Boko Haram attacked Buhari in Kaduna, killing five of his family members and aides and nearly killing him. The same Boko Haram under Jonathan abducted 200 largely Christian girls from Chibok. The government did nothing.
It was Buhari’s government that eventually started bringing them home. We May have forgotten that under the Christian Jonathan’s regime that Boko Haram attacked police headquarters and UN offices in Abuja. They attacked churches and mosques, schools and other public places all under a Christian President.
A few examples: On January 6, 2012,12 persons and 12 Christian worshipers were killed in the twin attacks in Adamawa State.
Also on February 25, 2012, A Boko Haram suicide bomber detonated himself at a church in Jos, Plateau State, killing 6 worshippers.
In April, suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked a church in Kano and Maiduguri, where at least 19 people were killed.
On August 12, 2013, an attack on a Maiduguri mosque killed 56 people; and in November 3, 2014, a suicide bombing attack in Yobe State killed 15 Shiites.
Between January 2012 and May, 2015, there have been several attacks on churches.
For instance, on June 7, 2012 in Kaduna State, 19 persons were killed in bomb attacks against three churches.
On August 7, 2012, Boko Haram gunmen killed another 19 persons when they attacked a Deeper Life Church in Kogi State.
Similarly, on December 22, 2014, a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the gates of a church during service, killing 8 persons.
And on New Year’s day on January 1,2015, a suicide bomber died in an attempt to bomb ECWA Church II, behind the State University in Gombe.
In the same period farmer- herdsmen clashes took place in Benue, Plateau, and other places.
How is it that the authors of this write-up pretend not to know that Fulani herdsmen have killed more people in Zamfara, (an almost 90% Muslim State,) than both Benue and Taraba put together? And that almost everyone killed is Muslim? Or that over 800 Fulanis were killed in the Mambilla Plateau?
So the attack on a church in Gwer local government by mad men at 5am in the morning must be blamed on the President.
Where is your sense of fairness and justice? Why is it that you cannot see the hand of politicians desperate to discredit Buhari on his security credentials in this? What better way to create chaos and blame it on the President than walking into a church and killing worshippers? Where have you heard before that Fulanis many of whom are Bororos not even Muslims will go and attack a church?
Why have you not blamed the bombing of mosques in Adamawa State where dozens died last November on Buhari. So the fact that a Fulani is President and there are clashes basically over land and water means that it must be his fault?
Everyone who falsely accuses another of murder will not escape the judgment of God. Christians must not be propagators of falsehood especially sponsored by the opposition most of who want to return to continue the open and despicable looting that Buhari has now stopped.
By the way, the choice of Yemi Osinbajo in the ACN, ANPP, CPC, New PDP alliance that brought about the APC, was not Buhari’s choice. It was the choice of the Tinubu- led ACN. An alliance essentially between the North and the Southwest of Nigeria. In two previous failed presidential campaigns of Buhari, his running mates were from the South East: Ume-Ezeoke and Chuba Okadigbo. So it's simply nonsense to suggest that Buhari chose Osinbajo in order to buy the silence of Christians.
By the way I heard a speech made by the Vice President at the Deeper Life Church last Tuesday, this is the link, ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aItZKojLN6g) it will probably help you to see that this man is God sent to us at this time and as believers our job is to uphold him in prayers like Mordecai and the whole lot of Jews for Esther. The truth will prevailed
Op I dont blame u. I blame the cheap cough syrup you have been sipping, ill advice u to try one from emzor for less side effects. He might not be actively promoting jihad but he is certainly passively supporting it through his inactions
Oluwabash: I am not a member of APC or a part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government but I do not think that as Christians we should allow politicians to influence our thinking and understanding of herdsmen killings in Nigeria.
No one is happy about the killings of herdsmen across the country and most of us want an end to it but I don’t think this is an attempt to Islamise Nigeria. In a bid to find out more about herdsmen killings and their motives, I did this research and found ten things we all should know about these attacks.
Proverbs 4 vs 7 says, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Below are 10 things I found. I leave you to make up your mind on the matter
10 LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT FULANI HERDSMEN
1. According to the Global Terrorism Index, Fulani militants were the fourth deadliest terrorist group in 2014, using machine guns and attacks on villages to assault and intimidate farmers. After killing around 80 people in total from 2010 to 2013, they killed 1,229 in 2014.
2. This shows that herdsmen killings precede President Buhari’s administration and is not an Islamic agenda or an attempt to Islamise Nigeria has peddled by many.
3. Herdsmen carried out attacks under Christian led governments of President Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan (especially under Jonathan’s government.
4. President Buhari’s attempt to curb herdsmen killings through “Cattle Colonies” (which will be funded by the FG) have been rejected by some state governors and politicians. In a colony, 20 to 30 ranchers can share a colony that can house up to 300 cows.
5. It is on account of this that he brushed aside an opinion that the Federal Government should challenge the constitutionality of the anti-open grazing bill.
6. Commanding General of the US Army, Africa, Brig.-Gen. Eugene LeBoeuf, has submitted that insecurity and attacks have been fuelled by the invasion of foreign extremists.
7. President Buhari has ordered that both the Nigerian Army and Nigerian Police operatives be deployed to Benue and other states affected by herdsmen attack in a bid to curb and possibly end attacks.
8. Herdsmen have also attacked other African countries including Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Congo.
9. Since the Fourth Nigerian Republic in 1999, the most impacted states are those of the Nigerian Middle Belt like Benue, Taraba and Plateau.
10. Security experts believe that herdsmen conflicts are more often than not, as a result of major demographic changes in Nigeria. "Urban sprawl and development have simply reduced land area for both peasant farming and cattle grazing".
James Akinloye
I have read your post and I have a few points I would like to pass across and I'm not saying this in an argumentative manner
Firstly the fact that the killings happened in other countries and have been increasing in momentum over time does not make it alright. Nigeria is a sovereign state with its laws which does not permit murder and as the chief security officer in the country PMB is meant to ensure his citizens are protected against all external and internal aggression first before anything else
Secondly I do not believe that giving cattle colony is a way to prevent people (weather internationally or locally) who have made up their minds to collect lands forcefully.
So my recommendations are if they are foreigners meet them fire for fire and clear their doubts that's what a president should do. If they are locals also meet them with similar force but at the same time invests in basic amenities in places they migrate from so they would need to move less. For example invest in artificial irrigation in the arid areas and grow grass so cows and live stock can eat.
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