Says Christians should not be afraid to go to church
The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Muhammadu Saad Abubakar, has lamented that terrorists kill people on a daily basis in the northern part of the country, particularly in the North-West region and that the killings are mostly not reported.
This is just as the Sultan called on Christians to disregard the recent threat by some unknown persons who warned that those found attending churches in Zamfara State will be killed.
Speaking at the 4th Quarter 2021 Meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC), with the theme: NIREC, Security Agencies and Peace in Nigeria, the Sultan, who is also the Co-Chair of NIREC, said there is no single day that passes without people being killed in the North.
According to him, Nigeria has a series of challenges facing it, and that if our leaders dont wake up and come together to understand the issues facing the country, the challenges will escalate.
He, however, charged religious leaders to be wary of the kind of things they say to their followers, noting that their followers always believe that they speak things from the Holy Bible and Holy Qur’an.
While advocating for dialogue to address some of the challenges in the country, Sultan Saad Abubakar said the elites in the country have been the major problems the nation is facing.
In his remarks, the National President, Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN), President, Reverend (Dr.) Samson Ayokunle, lamented that Nigerian roads have become a den of kidnappers and a no-go-area for travellers.
Reverend Ayokunle, who is also the Co-Chair of NIREC, wondered why persons would be kidnapped and the security forces cannot trace the kidnappers to their hideouts and rescue the victims.
The CAN President, therefore, called for an increase in intelligence gathering, and the public to also volunteer information to the security agencies so that the movement of criminals could be traced and apprehended ahead of time.
He also urged the security forces to purge themselves of the criminals among them who aid and abate criminality.
