Nigeria Will Soon Triumph Over Kidnapping, Banditry- Osinbajo Assures
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has on Tuesday, assured that kidnapping, banditry and insecurity generally would soon become things of the past as Nigeria would soon triumph over them.
Prof. Osinbajo was a Special Guest of Honour at a one-day peace and security summit, organised by Kaduna State chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) which held at ECWA Goodnews church, Narayi, Kaduna.
The theme of the summit was entitled, “Nigeria’s Insecurity: The church’s response in the 21st century”.
The Vice President said Nigeria’s socio-economic problems were like that of a woman in a labour room, saying after much pains, there will be celebration by the people when they eventually overcome the hardship.
The Vice President who was represented by the Chaplain, Villa, Pastor Joseph Oluseyi Malomo at the summit,said “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 plan 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 faith and see the problems we are going through as bread. God will take us to the promise land of a great nation with great values.We must reject politics of identity and ethnicity. Nigeria is going to be a shining nation, and insecurity will soon end,” he said.
A leader from the Middle Belt and Professor of Theology and social ethics, Prof Yusuf Turaki, in his remarks on the occasion, alleged that government knew the kidnappers, bandits and other criminal elements in Nigeria.
Prof. Turaki who was the keynote speaker,said violence has taken over the country to the extent that every segment of the society was overwhelmed by violence.
He disagreed with politicians who are blaming killings in the middle belt on farmers/herders clash, saying it was a deceptive narrative to motives of ” repetition of Sokoto jihadists war.”
“These are Foreign Fulani 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 Fulani 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 kill you. So kidnapping is not different from what happened during the Sokoto
