Serving Overseer of the Latter
Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday, described as shameful the
Presidency’s attempt to put herders’ group, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’
Association of Nigeria, on the same social status as the Yoruba and Igbo socio-cultural
bodies, Afenifere and Ohanaeze Ndigbo, respectively.
Bakare made his position known in
a sermon in the church in Ogba, Lagos State.
He said it was more shameful for
the Presidency to exclude the North’s socio-cultural organisation, the Arewa
Consultative Forum, from its illogical comparison.
Speaking on “The sign of Jonah,
the prophet,” the cleric led the congregation to pray that Nigeria would vomit
“bandits, killers, kidnappers, cattle rustlers, killer herdsmen and looters” to
round off his sermon.
He stated, “It is shameful for
anyone to compare Miyetti Allah with Afenifere. Such person cannot be in his
right senses to think that Miyetti Allah and Afenifere and Ohanaeze are the
same.
“How can a group that has been
rated as the fourth most deadly group in the world by the United Nations, a
group of terrorists, be the same as Afenifere?
“How can a group that kills
people, rapes women, destroys houses be on the same scale as Afenifere? Do
Afenifere members carry weapons?”
Bakare argued that the exclusion
of the ACF from the comparison by the Presidency was deliberate, in order to
put the northern group on a higher scale above Yoruba and the Igbo groups.
He added, “And to show the true
colour of the person doing the comparison, he left out the ACF from his
comparison as if that one is above everybody else.
“If you have to put Afenifere and
Ohanaeze on the same scale as Miyetti Allah, why did you exclude the ACF? Is it
not to tell everyone that the ACF is superior to other groups in the country?”
The cleric submitted that
bandits, kidnappers, cattle rustlers, killer herdsmen and looters had become
the commander-in-chief of the nation, owing to their overwhelming presence and
the inability of the relevant authorities to stop their activities.
Bakare said, “It is evident that
the bandits; criminals, killing people every day; those kidnapping people over
the place; and cattle rustlers and killer herdsmen terrorising the people are
in charge in this country; they are the commander-in-chief.
“Nobody seems to know what to do anymore; the
terrorists are in charge. They have even extended their regime to these areas.
They now kidnap lecturers; doctors are no longer safe.
“The whole nation is under the
control of terrorists. But in the name of the Lord, Nigeria shall be delivered.
I shall witness the deliverance and greatness of Nigeria.”
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