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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