The Chief Imam of Benin, Edo State, Sheikh Abdulfatai Enabulele, has said that God is not happy with Nigeria due to the killings across the country.
Speaking with journalists shortly after the Eid prayer at Ikpoba Slope, in Benin City, Sheik Enabulele called on leaders at all levels to ensure justice, fairness and equity in line with Allah’s dictate.
“God is not happy with Nigerians because of the way we are killing ourselves.
“How can we be killing ourselves? And those who are supposed to protect us don’t care, they are protecting themselves with security and leaving us like that,” he said.
He noted that the killing in the country continued due to absence of justice, as leaders “show nonchalant and lackadaisical attitude towards the lives and properties of Nigerians they are supposed to protect.
“People are taking laws into their hands, why is there jungle justice now? Because people have been offended and there is nowhere to seek redress or get justice.
“And because of this, more people have begun to take laws into their hands. That is just the basic fact and truth.”
“I am appealing to Nigerians, we shouldn’t kill ourselves. This jungle justice happened in Sokoto State, with Deborah. Now it is happening in our state here. It has also happened in different places. Why?
“No matter the situation, it doesn’t really make sense. We need to have respect for human life, it is sacred. The life you cannot create you don’t have right to take it. That is the basic fact.
“But I am blaming those in authority. They should be responsible, be proactive and should not allow issue to take place before saying arrest those people. There shouldn’t be double standard in the ways we do things.”
He, however, called on the leaders to know that God is going to ask them, how they governed the people on judgment day.
He further called on Nigerians to let the lessons learned during Ramadan continue to work with them and should not say, Ramadan has gone; we want to go back to those evils and atrocities again.
This, he said it means one has wasted time and energy, as it is not only in the month of Ramadan that you worship God, respect and honoured people but throughout the whole year and in your life time.
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