Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has assured Nigerians that kidnapping, banditry and insecurity bedevilling the country would soon become things of the past as the country would soon triumph over them.
Osinbajo who likened Nigeria’s socio-economic problems to that of a woman in a labour room said after much pain, there will be a celebration by the people when they eventually overcome hardship.
The Vice President was represented by the Chaplain, Villa, Pastor Joseph Oluseyi Malomo, at a one day Peace and Security summit organised by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna chapter at ECWA Goodnews Church, Narayi, Kaduna on Tuesday.
According to Osinbajo, “We all desired a nation devoid of any form of kidnapping and terrorism.
“We have heard prophecies of a shining Nigeria, we are longing for the day those prophecies will come to reality. We need to fight the fight of faith because God’s plans for the greatness of Nigeria has not changed, it will surely come. We need to pray for Nigeria.
“Many are weighed down because of problems they are going through, we must as Christians keep the Altars of God burning with prayers to overcome these problems.
“We must keep the faith and see the problems we are going through as bread. God will take us to the promised land of a great nation with great value. We must reject the politics of identity and ethnicity. Nigeria is going to be a shining nation, and insecurity will soon end.”
The lead keynote speaker, Middle Belt leader and Professor of Theology and social ethics, Prof Yusuf Turaki, alleged that government knows the kidnappers, bandits and other criminal elements in Nigeria as well as paying them to the detriment of the nation’s security.
The speaker who spoke on the theme “Nigeria’s Insecurity: The church’s response in the 21st century” noted that violence has taken over the country to the extent that every segment of the society now speaks violence, adding, “Everybody is overwhelmed with violence.”
To this end he disagreed with politicians who are blaming killings in middle belt on farmers/clash, saying it is a deceptive narratives to motives of what he called a repetition of Sokoto jihadists war.
“These are Foreign Fulanis who have been allowed to enter Nigeria so that they could help their brothers in Nigeria to kill innocent citizens and wreak havoc on our ancestral lands.
“These Fulanis occupy the lands, carrying AK47, killing people, destroying communities in the middle belt and other parts of the country.
“And the government knows them, government pays them to destroy ancestral lands. Politicians know the bandits that enter Nigeria, but they will not tell us.
“Politicians have devised a wrong narrative that is deceptive, saying it is farmers/herders clash in the middle belt if it is clash, how comes Fulani are carrying AK47 to kill the people.
“Nigeria is well blessed with intelligent people but they cannot up till today solve insecurity in the country. Something terrible has befallen our country. God, open the mouths of the people, let them speak the truth and die for the truth.
“What the Fulani are doing now is exactly what Sokoto jihadists did in those old days. They kidnapped and asked people to pay ransom in those days. If you cannot pay, they sold you into slavery or killed you. So kidnapping is not different from what happened during the Sokoto jihadists war. They captured infidel. It is being repeated now in Nigeria.”
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