This is an article written by Femi Fani
Kayode. Keep reading: Nothing sums up the
dangerous way in which the DSS is
handling the Apostle Johnson Suleman
affair better than the words of the
Southern Kaduna-based Pastor Owojaye
Matthew. He said:
“You want to arrest
Christian clergymen
who asked Christians
to defend themselves
against killer FULANI
Herdsmen while you
allow hundreds of
foreign FULANI
herdsmen invading
Nigeria to kill and
maim CHRISTIANS and
take over their lands!
DSS, tread softly! Do
not play into the
hands of chaos! We
are waiting for DSS to
arrest the kill and go
FULANI herdsmen!”
The Buhari administration is literally
playing Russian roullete with this matter.
They are playing with fire and it may well
end up burning them badly and
consumming the whole of Nigeria. They are
sitting on a keg of gunpowder and it may
well end up blowing up in their faces.
Owojaiye’s point is as pertinent as it is
clear. His counsel to the DSS is unassailable
and timely.
They would do well to take his advice,
leave Suleman alone and, instead of
harrasing him, go after those who commit
mass murder, ethnic cleansing and
genocide against northern Christians at the
drop of a hat and those who encourage,
incite and pay them to do it.
In this respect let us consider the words of
the President-General of Nigeria’s Supreme
Council for Islamic Affairs, His Eminence,
Mohammed Sa’ad Abubakar, the Sultan of
Sokoto.
On 24th July 2016 he called on Muslims to
fight anybody or any group that attempts
to stop them from performing their
religious obligations. He said,
“Fight those who seek
to stop you from
practising Islam. The
only thing that will
make me to act or ask
you to act is only
when somebody or a
group or some other
nations decide to stop
us from performing
our religious
obligations. That is the
only way we can fight
somebody.” (The Daily
Trust).
These words are not only ominous but also
sinister. The question for His Eminence and
all those that share his views and
disposition, and I ask it respectfully, is
precisely who is stopping the Muslims of
Nigeria from “practising Islam” and
“performing their religious obligations?”
Is his warning and veiled threat not
dangerous and uneccessary? Is this
misguided and misplaced missive not the
motive and primary catalyst for the
unprecedented and unprovoked attacks
that the Christian community in northern
Nigeria are being subjected to today?
Is this not the ethos and mindset of those
who love to spill Christian blood and crush
Christian bones?
Do such words not appear to be like manna
from heaven and a source of great
inspiration and encouragement to the
radical islamic terrorists and Fulani ethnic
supremacists in our midst? Is this not a
clear case of incitement to violence?
If the Department of State Security (DSS)
can attempt to arrest and later invite the
fiery evangelical Apostle Johnson Suleman
of Omega Fire Ministries simply for calling
on Christians to defend themselves when
they are attacked by Fulani militias, why
should they not arrest the Sultan of Sokoto
for his comments as well?
If Miyetti Allah, the umbrella group of the
Fulani militia, and other Muslim groups
and Fulani leaders can call for the arrest of
Rev. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, the
President of the Christian Association of
Nigeria (CAN) and other clerics simply
because they asked Christians to defend
themselves from what can only be
described as mass murder and genocide,
why can’t we Christians demand that the
Sultan of Sokoto, the leader of Nigeria’s
northern Muslims, be arrested for his
inciting words as well?
Is what is good for the goose not good for
the gander? Do Muslim lives matter more
than Christian ones in President
Muhammadu Buhari’s Nigeria?
Are Christians expected to behave like
quislings and cowards and hide under the
bed shivering in silence when Muslim
leaders speak or threaten them?
Are Christians second class citizens in
Nigeria? Is it not better to be killed and die
as free men than to live as worthless slaves
or second class citizens in our own
country?
All over the northern part of the country
Christians are being targetted, slaughtered
and butchered and not one person has
been arrested, detained or cautioned by
our government for these heinous crimes
against humanity and these clear cases of
ethnic and religious cleansing.
Are the lives of those defenceless and
innocent Christian men, women and
children that were brutally massacred
some kind of sacrifice to a strange and
demonic deity or entity?
Are those that kill in this gruesome and
heartless manner and those that secretly
encourage such killings and turn a blind
eye to them really Muslims? Are they even
human beings or are they just beasts?
I ask these questions because the apparant
indifference of our government to the
plight of the northern Christians and their
conspiratorial collusion with the forces of
darkness that perpetuate these evil,
ungodly and barbaric acts against them
shocks and appauls me.
Muslim clerics and leaders all over the
north pronounce inciting words every day
in the sanctity of their mosques and the
Fulani Emirs appear to endorse those
words yet no-one has called any of them to
order. This madness has been going on for
years and yet few are prepared to confront
it.
The indifference of most northern Muslim
leaders towards this matter is troubling
and nauseating me. It appears that those
that kill Christians in the north have some
sort of immunity from the law.
For example there was a particular Fulani
prince who was involved in the gruesome
public beheading of a Christian man from
Benue state by the name of Gideon Akaluka
in Kano in the mid-1990’s long before he
became an Emir.
The Fulani Prince was hidden in a Sokoto
prison for two years after all those that
organised the killing with him were extra-
judicially executed by security forces on the
orders of the then Head of State, General
Sani Abacha.
After his release the matter was closed and
the prince not only flourished but he also
went from strength to strength until he
became an Emir!
That is how skewered the system is and
that is the level of injustice and sheer
madness that Christians have been
subjected to over the years in Nigeria.
Instead of facing justice, those that commit
such atrocities appear to be rewarded by
the state for their barbarity and evil.
Again in October, 2011 the Sultan of Sokoto
delivered a lecture at Harvard University
in the United States of America and,
amongst many other things, said,
“I do not recognize any Nigerian
constitution and the only constitution I
recognise is the Koran.”
As the cerebal young Yoruba nationalist
Mr. Adeyinka Adebayo rightly asked,
“if Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Pastor David
Oyedepo, Pastor Ayo Oritsajafor,
Archbishop Olubunmi Okogie, in the name
of their beliefs in the Bible as having the
final say in their affairs, go about with such
flatulence, would it be acceptable and
exemplary?”
Adebayo has asked a pertinent question. If
Prophet Temitope Joshua, Dr. Daniel
Olukoya, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah,
Dr. B.O. Ezekiel, Rev. Musa Asake, Bishop
Mike Okonkwo, Pastor Bosun Emmanuel,
Rev. Emmanuel Kure, Rev. Ladi Thompson,
Pastor Paul Adefarasin, Pastor Biodun
Fatoyinbo or any of the other notable
clerics in Nigeria had said that they do not
recognise the Nigerian constitution and
that the only constitution that they
recognise is the Holy Bible would all hell
not have broken loose?
Up until today the slaughter that comes as a
consequence of such irresponsible and
hateful sentiments and incitement
continues.
Yet when the Islamist terrorists and
Jihadists start killing Christians and Shiite
Muslims as a consequence of such
incendiary expressions the Buhari
government does and says absolutely
nothing to discourage or stop it.
Worse still the entire nation maintains a
stoic and submissive silence as if it were
totally bewitched by some deep voodoo
magic and dark Luciferian spell.
Virtually everyone appears to have been
frozen into silence in the country and the
spirit of fear has gripped most of our
leaders and captured their spirits and
souls.
The killing of Christians on a daily basis all
over the north has now become the norm
and it is getting worse by the day.
Yet no-one seems to care and some,
including that devilish little imp in Kaduna
state that delights in shedding Christian
blood, even relish it and boast about it.
808 Christians were slaugthtered in
Southern Kaduna on Christmas eve and
Christmas day by Fulani militias and no
arrests were made.
1000 Christians were killed in Agatu, Benue
state last year by Fulani militants and no
arrests were made.
253 Christians were bombed to death at an
IDP camp in Borno state two weeks ago by
a mad Muslim Air Force pilot and no
arrests were made.
1000 Shiite Muslims were slaughtered by
the Sunni-Muslim controlled Nigerian army
at the end of 2015 and no arrests were
made.
Thousands (yes THOUSANDS!!!) of
Christian Biafran youths and members of
IPOB have been slaughtered all over the
south-east and south-south by the Sunni-
Muslim led Nigerian security agencies since
Buhari came to power just under two years
ago yet no arrests have been made.
Christian political leaders and clerics are
being harrassed, detained, subjected to
torture, humiliated, maligned, threatened,
coerced and forced to step down as heads
of their Churches by the creation and
implementation of bogus, absurd and self-
seving laws and yet no-one is there to
defend them.
Relevant here are the words of the man of
the moment, President Donald J. Trump. He
said,
“Christians in the Middle-East have been
executed in large numbers. We cannot
allow this horror to continue!”
If only he knew what the Christians of
northern Nigeria were being subjected to
he would accept the fact that what is
happening to Christians in the Middle East
is nothing but child’s play. May God help
us all. (TO BE CONTINUED).
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