GARBA SHEHU WAS DEAD RIGHT?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.   

(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 10.NO 415. 25th July, 2021.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

GARBA SHEHU WAS DEAD RIGHT?

Any form of veiled reference by any person or group of persons to classify Nigeria’s unfortunate and intransigent insecurity challenges as religious conflict between Muslims and Christians is tantamount to incitement, divisiveness, self-serving/self-righteous assumption and an abuse to the sensibilities of advocates of one indivisible and inseparable Nigeria!

It is true that between the years 2011-2014, Boko Haram insurgents, an Islamic terrorists group, targeted and consistently bombed Christian religious places of worship churches/institutions and murdered their clerics/worshippers in cold blood with a view to provoking religious conflicts that would have spread like wild fire and destroy the very foundation of UNITY, which the founding Fathers birthed and nurtured in the First Republic before military interregnum and for the constitutional fact that Nigeria is a SECULAR STATE!

But the Christian doctrine which ascribes judgment of offenders and the wicked to the Almighty God, creator of the Earth, restricted all Nigerian Christians in general to refrain from embarking on self defence, and neither vengeance nor retaliation; but to depend on Him for their defence!

And suddenly in a U-TURN, they began to detonate bombs on Mosques, Islamic structures and killed several clerics as they demanded for an Islamic Caliphate to be carved out in the North East State of Borno, which was and still is their operational base!

BISHOP MATTHEW KUKAH SPEAKS OUT AGAIN! 

Catholic Bishop Matthew Kukah, domicile in the Muslim Caliphate State of Sokoto since his elevation to the headship of his Church’s Archdiocese in 2011 has been a fearless and very outspoken servant of the Most High God and consumed with the zeal/passion for the Word, commands great respect and admiration at home and abroad! His religious portfolio includes the duty of the ‘Watchman’ who MUST warn the people against wicked behaviour in order to save their lives because God has no pleasure in the death of SINNERS. (Ezekiel. 3: 17-21; 33:1-20)! 

Although Bishop Kukah was invited to participate in a progressing international conversation surrounding “acquired evidences on human rights abuses in Nigeria” he allegedly “castigated” Nigeria before the United States Congress in his Virtual Presentation, at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, Washington, D.C. on 14th July, 2021, through his testimonies that the Buhari APC Administration was bent on destroying Nigeria’s fragile democracy through ethnic and religious lines!

During the Christmas yuletide in December 2020, the cleric in an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, made similar accusations against him in spite of the fact that they were both of the Northern extraction – Katsina and Kaduna States respectively!

SIX MONTHS OF CONTINUOUS MASSACRE IN KADUNA!

Bishop Kukah’s anguish could be traced to the escalated invasion of his North West State from January 2021 by killer herdsmen, bandits, Boko Haram terrorists, including jihadists and gunmen, who have jointly massacred “3,462 Nigerian Christians”, and hundreds of innocent residents according to newspaper reports, and the Human Rights Watch (HRW), without reprieve from either Federal/State Government, outside of the accustomed statements of condolences!

BUT GARBA SHEHU, THE PRESIDENT’S SPOKESMAN WOULD HAVE NOTHING OF THOSE RANTINGS!

Garba says Kukah should desist from sowing discord and strife among Nigerians. CORRECT!

He believed the Bishop’s opinions before the US Congress were personal. WRONG – They were Biblical.

Religious leaders have moral responsibility to stand up for the truth. CORRECT!

Individual ethnic group should not be negatively labelled before a foreign audience. CORRECT!

Bishop Kukah’s views/opinions were not shared by vast majority of Nigerians. WRONG!

Our multi-faceted challenges as a diverse nation should be harnessed for our greater advantage. CORRECT

But people like Kukah are sowing discord and strife among the citizens. WRONG, VERY WRONG!

Going by the history of the Church as is well known. It will stand up publicly for the truth. CORRECT, VERY CORRECT!

Garba says that the Bible is definitive on matters of ethnicity and racialism according to Romans. 2:9-10, and Galatians. 3:28; that trouble and distress awaited the wicked among Jew or Gentile and likewise that both were all one in Christ! VERY CORRECT!

10. Finally he said that “Whether Christian or Muslim, we stand by these beliefs and are steadfastly committed to them in governance.” DO YOU BELIEVE MR. GARBA SHEHU?

HISTORY OF INSECURITY IN NIGERIA FROM 1999!

It is true that President Buhari inherited insecurity among other LIABILITIES from 16 years of consecutive, terribly corrupt Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Administrations, BUT the ELECTORATE that voted him to power believed he would be the much-long-awaited MESSIAH because he was so DESPERATE to have contested in FOUR CONSECUTIVE ELECTIONS [2003, 2007, 2011 & 2015], TO CLINCH the highly exalted position!

However, the cliché that “to whom much is given, much is expected” is very applicable to the incumbent who in over SIX YEARS had caught the ire of the Office of The Citizens, due to increasing and unceasing acts of terrorism, banditry, armed Fulani herders/farmers deadly clashes, harassment/ kidnapping of adults of both genders, boarding school children in all 774 LGAs of the Six-Geo-Political Zones AND his FAILURE to apprehend the horrible situation! 

Under President Buhari’s watch, (especially since his disputed victory which ushered his second term in 2019), STRATEGIC government infrastructures [police stations/State headquarters, correctional (prison), facilities, army installations at both Federal and State levels], were being attacked and destroyed by insurgents/terrorists with unrestricted recklessness!

Now in its 12th year of insurrection, Boko Haram has teamed up with ISWAP, has acquired more sophisticated weapons which include, grenade/rocket launch attacks on rigid infrastructures, and a more dangerous dimension warfare weaponry of land-to-air missile attacks on government aircrafts!

It is on record that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), in the last SIX MONTHS had lost not less than FOUR COMBAT AIRPLANES to gun attacks claimed to have been inflicted by the terrorists which also claimed the lives of at least 20 officers – including senior army personnel – the Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 others!

The latest was the July 18th, 2021, attack on an Alpha Jet which crashed in Zamfara State, following intense firing from bandits – which was confirmed by the NAF spokesperson who also informed that the Pilot was lucky to bailout before the crash and escaped to a military formation for safety!

NOW THAT THE FIRST SET OF SIX  

Efforts of Security Agencies - the Armed Forces, Police, DSS, NIA, NSCDC, etc, have become infinitesimal because of inadequate strength, funding and equipment, due to glaring CORRUPTION/AGGRANDIZEMENT by some bad eggs within the Executive and the Legislative who are bent on satisfying their insatiable urge for slush funds which had taken a frightening dimension - the kind that had never been witnessed since 1999!

PRESENTLY in several Local Government Areas in the North East Bornu State, testimonies recorded from indigene farmers/residents and published on social network portals confirm that Boko Haram terrorists occupy and collect taxes from the dwellers to ensure their protection in spite of claims by the Governor and military authorities that government forces were in total control!

Nigerians are tired of sleepless days and nights due to incapability of retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari to defeat INSECURITY; they are tired of looking over their shoulders, are  suspicious of people around them who might be kidnappers for all they care, tired of Boko Haram terrorists, bandits, Fulani killer herdsmen, gunmen, highway robbers, human traffickers; TIRED of abject poverty and lack of simple basic amenities, WHILE SENATORS AND ALL POLITICIANS who claim to represent them dwell in AFFLUENCE and CITIZENS are jobless and lack basic necessities of life in the form of medical facilities, potable water, decent accommodation for their families, basic and qualitative education for their children, modern roads/highways etc, etc,!

NOW THAT THE FIRST SET OF SIX (OUT OF 12) SUPER TUCANO FIGHTER JETS PURCHASED FROM THE UNITED STATES ARRIVED (22ND JULY, 2021), IT BEHOVES ON THE MILITARY THINK-TANK TO  STRATEGIZE ON HOW TO BRING ALL FORMS OF TERRORISM TO AN END BEFORE SENDING THE BRAND-NEW, VERY COSTLY AND HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED AIRCRAFTS INTO  THE AIR!

 “ If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.’’ (2Chron 7:14).

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If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations.  

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.