To
too many Christians, the gory reports of killings by Fulani-herdsmen, the
foot-soldiers currently on deployment to actualize the Islamist agenda of a
total take-over of Nigeria, is more or less like an entertaining tragedy
movie. The Church is too disconnected
for people to experience what was described in I Cor. 12:26 “And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it.”
It is therefore very common to see Christians shake
their heads in pity at sights of ripped-up pregnant women, corpses of
brutalised children, and other extremely gory sights; and the next moment
return to their meals or their heated arguments in support of the politicians
whose inaction, or even tacit support, is fuelling the killings.
How can any right-thinking person ever exonerate from these dastard acts, a government who in
utter disregard for the constitution, deliberately put moslems from a section
of the country in charge of every security unit in the country? And to add
insult to the injury, not only would the government NOT readily condemn the
perpetrators and pronounce them the terrorists that they are, top government
spokesmen kept raising alternative nauseating narratives. The latest is the insistence by none less
than the minister for interior and the police IG that it was the legally-passed
popular law proscribing open cattle grazing, and non-capitulation to the cattle
colony idea, that is responsible for the unending carnage. In short the victims asked for the deal they
are getting!
How can anyone suggest that some war against
corruption (even if not lopsided as is the present situation) or some other positive
social-economic index can balance wanton killings unapologetically designed to
turn Nigerian into a fiefdom, the “estate of the Usman dan Fodio clan” with the
Christian majority turned into slaves, or second-class citizens at best?
Yet, as the Christian people steadfastly fight this
war we have found ourselves in, we must do so using our superior strength: our
spirituality!
As cautioned by the Vice President, we must not get
distracted. We must not allow evil to
overcome us (Rom 12:21), yet we must not degenerate to attempting to fight evil
with evil. A Christian who does that has
already become overcome of evil!
It is quite obvious that the ongoing carnage in
pockets of locations all across the country are only explorative attacks in
preparation for massive nationwide carnage – only the blind will not see the
ongoing deployment of able-bodied islamist reservists all over the country in
guise of motorcyclists, miners, and more recently, supposed road-menders who
perpetually man strategic points on the roads, pretending to be unpaid
volunteers!
Yet all this,
in a sense, is only a reflection of global moves of a desperate devil who knows
he has but a short time left.
The video of the mid-June outburst from a clearly
frustrated legislator in West Cameroon went viral on social media
recently. He lamented a situation where
every commander in the security forces is from one section of the country and
the forces are treating the western section as occupied territory with
unrelenting beatings, killings, and rape. He repeated over and over again that the
West was no longer interested in the union! https://qz.com/africa/1406320/cameroons-anglophone-crisis-is-being-ignored-by-us-china-eu-others/. You first thought you were listening to a legislator
from Nigeria’s middle belt!
Like the vice-president reminded the nation, the
expression “this country is nothing but a geographical expression” was indeed
first made, not with respect to Nigeria, but Italy in 1814!
Acrimonious, seemingly intractable differences have since occurred and indeed
ongoing in many nations around the globe. With incredible injustices being
perpetrated.
Pastor Bosun Emmanuel reminded the audience at CETCon
that blood is the legal-tender for spiritual transactions. Don’t be shocked if it turns out that the
senseless outrageous killings were more or less blood sacrifices. The same analysis will make sense of the
non-political carnage at Offa at a bank robbery where about 33 people were
needlessly killed. And by people whose
access to virtually limitless fund by connection to state treasury should not
actually be in any desperate need for money to warrant the carnage. Think blood sacrifice!
And there might not be a direct connect with politics
either; but in virtually every society around the globe, there are to be found
minority groups or communities being hounded and persecuted relentlessly. As perhaps an extreme example, consider the
report from the US, of as many as 77 practictioners of alternative medicines
dropping dead of non-natural causes in three years.
The report is that they are being hacked down by multinational pharmaceutical
companies whose profits and control of the health sector is being threatened by
new unpatentable natural cures for cancer, among other diseases!
The big difference in Nigeria’s case is that it is
religiously coloured, and it is the minority persecuting the majority.
So the majority must put on her thinking cap. Seize
the opportunity to unite. But in joining
such needed efforts, we must not forget we are christians. Self-defense
as advocated by the revered elder, TY Danjuma is already enshrined in the
constitution; but it must not become pre-meditated offensive, especially
against randomly picked representative members of the attacking clan.
Doris Bura, long-term supporter of Church Arise! from
the North East, once lamented people subscribing to sorcery and witchcraft as a
defence against Islamic terror! And as we also reported in the past, the old
cultic Yoruba militia, the Agbekoyas, are bidding their opportunity in the
west. All these jumping from the fry pan
into the fire moves, must be resisted. If Christians would mobilize and unite,
at this juncture, there probably would be no need for armed resistance and
blood-letting. We can use the present adverse situation to prepare for our
post-Egypt existence. A glorious future beckons, let the Church Arise!
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