Many of them, civil servants, lived freely in any part of the country. Railway workers, P&T workers, as well as traders freely resided wherever they wanted in any part of the country.
Last week, I had this mail which says a building belonging to The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, at Gusua in Zamfara State was set ablaze by yet to be identified persons three months after the incidence.
The RCCG parish building was torched by alleged hoodlums on January 25 this year. Quite naturally, sympathizers visited to commiserate with the leadership of the church with some making promises to arrest the perpetrators of the heinous crime and bring them to book.
Three weeks after the fire incidence, a delegation from the community paid a sympathy visit to the church and empathized with the leadership of the church. After the normal exchange of pleasantries, the visiting community leaders dropped the clincher: “We sympathize with you for the fire incidence, but we must tell you that we will not allow you to rebuild this place as a church.” Infact, he added: “We have actually come to let you know that you have six months within which to vacate the site.”
That was when it dawned on the pastor and his congregation that Christians were not wanted in the community.
After several prayer sessions and reassured by biblical promise that wherever you set your foot, that land will be yours; members were just slowly picking themselves together with a view to remodel the church to the shame of the devil.
The pastor immediately dispatched a protest letter to the Zamfara State governor who, in his reckoning, is the only authority in the state that can either authorize their reconstruction work or in the alternative approve another location for the church.
As minutes are ticking towards the six months quit notice from the community leaders, the pastor and his congregation are still undergoing an endless wilderness period not sure if his SOS letter actually got to the state chief executive officer and if there would be a miracle call from his office before the expiration of the deadline.
Exactly 41 days before the above incidence in Zamfara State, a Living Faith Church on Airport Road, Ilorin, Kwara State, still under construction, was razed down.
The founder of Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel is Bishop David Oyedepo, a first class indigene of Kwara State who had contributed immensely to the socio-economic development of the state including the establishment of a state-of-the-art private university.
The only offence Oyedepo and his church had committed is that they dared to tread where angels and saints were not expected to go. The story goes thus: the church had acquired a land at Check-Point area along Ilorin-Ogbomosho Road for the purpose of building a church. After the acquisition of the required statutory rights of occupancy, they started construction work.
Trouble started when the immediate past vice chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Isaq Oloyede allegedly appeared at the construction site on December 3, 2012, ordering the workers to stop work immediately because, according to him, the land on which they were building belongs to Muslim Students’ Society, MSS.
According to the report, the former vice chancellor, instead of opting for the legal option to settle the dispute amicably for the interest of peace, allegedly threatened to, among other things, mobilise 1,000 students to demolish the church if it didn’t stop the construction work. Nine days later, on December 12, 2012 the church was razed down and nobody has been apprehended.
For how long shall we continue this master/slave relationship? Everyday we mouth the need for a united Nigeria but at who’s expense? Why will a group be regarded as superior while the other inferior always? As the National Assembly is currently considering another constitutional amendment, it would be worthwhile for members to save a looming national catastrophe by genuinely and sincerely deliberating on the basis of the nation’s unity before the planned centenary celebration to mark the amalgamation of the two protectorates.
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Tnx bro.We live in Zamfara state with fear.It seems as if the govt supports these acts.The churches that was razed down during post election violence are still to be rebuilt as promised by zamfara state govt.Even the damaged properties of non indigens during oil subsidy protest are still to be repaid by govt of zamfara state.1 nigeria 4mouth
ReplyDeleteDuring post election violence,Xians were the main target,during oil subsidy protest,these hoodlums nearly burnt up to 3 churches.bt they succeded in burning 1 completely.All these were in Zamfara state.what concerns oil subsidy with razing down church.The RCCG they razed is based on the initial purchaser never told them that church will ever be built there.God help us
ReplyDeleteIslam is a peace religion indeed.Even if the perpertrators are termed 'hoodlums',they are well backed up by adults
ReplyDeletePractice what you preach, if its a peaceful religion, where all the voilence from come? Bottom line is if your religion is peaceful act it, you won't even need to say it!
ReplyDeleteTo the first anonymous,let it be known that this northarn Governors N leader's support all this evil. Don't be desieved by their well said and no well done attitude.
ReplyDeleteSecondly I want to use this medium to continue to urge people to come to CHRIST, all this Evil is indicating the last days that the Bible talked about,the rapture is just very close.
I did my NYSC in Borno state,So many CHRISTIAN'S have been beheaded by this Muslims. What amaises me most is that most Christians don't even know who the Bible refered to as ''Anti-Christ''
This is not happening only in Nigeria both Egypt,Mali,Libya,tunisia etc. For those of you who has watched the man who saw tomorrow by Nustrademous. He said the man that will couse the nest world war will rise from Arabian and will enter Europe putting On the king's Cloth.
I wonder haw long people will suffer from the hand of this coursed people.
Allah exist indeed, and he is great in the act of destruction of life and vandalism of properties. We don't need anyone to preach to us again of his existence, the whole world is filled with evidence of his destructive power. Boko haram, Ansaru, Isallah, burning of churches, killing of Christians etc, what other evidence do we need? They say it is a religion of peace but what they do speak so loud that we cannot hear what they are preaching!
ReplyDeletebefore anybody comments on this subject, try visit north yourself especially Kano and go to Sabongari areas, you will count more than 100 churches. how many mosque are there in the whole SE? If a room is razed in the north they will call it church, if a xtain is killed in this boko haram wahala CAN will talk, but if muslims are killed,the Powerful GOD of xtains is working that s why muslims killed muslims. the earlier we know that there is religious problem in this country, the earliest the solution to our problem of poverty, hunger, insecurity brought about by corruption born by PDP lead recently by GEJ. The north is still where you find larger percentage of non indigene/xtains doing their normal business.
ReplyDeleteu ar a blatant liar
DeleteWe hv 4 long discoverd dat it is d Xtains dat set their places of worship ablaze so as to blem the Muslems and possibly get sumtin frm d Govt.There are countless churches in Zamfara why are d not destroyed? Tink abt it.
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