Femi Fani-Kayode has written an article expressing shock
over the dodgy manner in which the DSS is handling the comment made by Apostle
Johnson Suleiman, which he said cannot compared with the inciting words of
Sultan of Sokoto. Recall that Suleiman had asked Christians to defended
themselves against the killer, Fulani Herdsmen. Continue 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).
(FFK)
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