The President, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Bishop Wale Oke, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop his kinsmen, the Fulani, from engaging in the mindless killings of innocent Nigerians.
Oke gave the urge on Wednesday while receiving officials of the Lagos, Ogun and Osun states chapters of the PFN, led by Enjimaya Okwuonu, David Otaru and Prophet Isaiah Adelowokan, respectively in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Lamenting that the continuous silence of the President over the nation’s security is disheartening and disturbing, he urged President Buhari to urgently address the palpable insecurity in the country before the situation gets out of hand.
The clergyman and founder of the Sword of the Spirit Ministries, said, “The silence of President Muhammadu Buhari over the degenerating security situation in Nigeria is too loud and this is very disturbing. Seriously, President Buhari’s silence is deafening and it’s giving room for speculation and gossips that suggest the government has hands in the sickening situation by indulging and pampering the bandits and the killer Fulani herdsmen, among others.
“He should rise above primordial sentiments and sectional attachment by doing the needful to make the nation more homely for every Nigerian. There is so much pressure and tension in the land due to insurgency being orchestrated by the Boko Haram, kidnapping, banditry, killer Fulani herdsmen’s palaver, raping, among other ills. All these are self-inflicted.
“We don’t want the Vice
-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, to be the one that will speak; it is President Buhari himself that we want to hear from on the dreary security situation in the country. Our President should use the opportunity to disassociate his government from the lawlessness currently ravaging the country through the activities of Boko Haram insurgents and the killer Fulani herdsmen.
“He should tell his kinsmen, the Fulani, to stop the mindless killings currently on in the country; arrest and make those culpable to face the wrath of law. Tell the bandits, the killers, the rapists and all those involved in these heinous engagements, the language of law whether they are Fulanis or whatever. Let the nation hear your fatherly voice. People are living in fear,farmers can not go to their farms anymore”
“No doubt, we are at a precarious time because of insecurity and alarmingly, the drums of separation are beating loudly for everyone to hear. Kidnappers, bandits, Boko Haram insurgents, killer Fulani herdsmen and rapists, are criminals who the government should not negotiate with. Instead, they should be judged while the protection of lives and property of the citizen is given the needed priority.”
