I listened
to the words of Rev. Musa Asake, the general secretary of the Christian
Association of Nigeria, CAN, in the radio interview posted below and I
wept.
He has told us exactly what happened in
Southern Kaduna on Christmas eve and on Christmas day and it is simply
barbaric. He has also told us what lies ahead if we do not sit up.
I thank God that we have Christian
leaders like him who have the courage to speak out and tell the world
the bitter truth. O Lord help us and help our brothers and sisters in
Southern Kaduna.
I implore you to find the time to spend a
few minutes to listen to the interview. To those that don’t give a damn
and that believe it doesn’t matter I say the following.
You are shortsighted, ignorant,
narrow-minded, insensitive, callous, and very selfish. As Rev. Asake
rightly said, those of us from the South should get ready because the
Fulani killers and herdsmen are coming there too and they have a master
plan!
Yet few understand the gravity of the situation or even care.
The Nigerian people are so weak, so
battered, so bruised, so stoic, so trusting, so naïve, so ready to
accept injustice, so gullible, so uninspired, so uninspiring, so
fearful, so faithless, so incapable of being courageous and standing up
for truth.
They are like the proverbial frog that
is slowly boiled to death in a pot of hot water. They just sit there,
doing and saying nothing until death comes.
They will wait forever for God to
deliver them forgetting that God has already deposited everything that
they need in them to enable them to deliver themselves.
The ability to joyfully accept
barbarity, wickedness injustice and to merrily tolerate evil and tyranny
is NOT a virtue. It is a curse.
For those that do not see it that way please consider the words of Rev. Martin Luther King.
He said,
He said,
‘COWARDICE asks the question: is it
safe? EXPEDIENCY asks the question: is it political? VANITY asks the
question: is it popular? But CONSCIENCE asks the question: is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither
safe, nor political, nor popular – but one must take it simply because
it is right’.
May the Lord grant us the courage and the strength to resist injustice and wickedness and to stand up for what is right.
May He give us a strong resolve and the
fortitude to stand up for the weak, the helpless, the dull, the
vulnerable, the young, the elderly and all those that are being
subjected to genocide, persecution and injustice.
2017 is a year of miracles, blessings
and breakthroughs for those who know and trust Him. It is our year of
abundance and final victory over evil.
Have faith, be happy and be strong.
Despite the challenges, the difficulties and all the noise God will make
all things beautiful. The night may be dark and filled with sorrow but
joy comes in the morning.
My love and words of encouragement go
out to our Christian brothers and sisters in Southern Kaduna
particularly who have just been subjected to ethnic cleansing and
genocide by the Fulani militants and herdsmen backed by government
security agents and the military.
May the souls of all those that were
slaughtered rest in peace. May God heal the wounds of their loved ones
and all those that they left behind and may He strengthen and avenge
them speedily.
God will never abandon or forsake them
or indeed any of us. Help is on the way, hang on to His sure word and
hold on to His promise. Our God is mighty and He will surely deliver.
Happy new year. Shalom!”
Femi
Fani-Kayode is a lawyer, a Nigerian politician, an evangelical
christian, an essayist, a poet and he was the Special Assistant (Public
Affairs) to President Olusegun Obasanjo from July 2003 until June 2006.
He was the minister of culture and tourism of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria from June 22nd to Nov 7th 2006 and as the minister of Aviation
from Nov 7th 2006 to May 29th 2007. He tweets from@realFFK.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
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