Catholic Priest Murdered, RCCG Pastors Abducted
Five pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, were reported to have been abducted on August 2 while on their way to the ministers' conference. By suspected herdsmen. This is just barely 24hrs after a Catholic priest, Fr Offu, was murdered while on his way to his parish in Enugu state. Still by men suspected to be herdsmen.
These incidents, sad and worrisome as they are, are not the only horrendous news we've had to link with suspected herdsmen. Streaming our media outfits all along the years, and apparently with an incensed intensity just in the recent days, have been issues bothering on herdsmen this and herdsmen that.
The people, with the frequency of this cataclysm, have become disconcerted and similarly fed up with the assurances of safety by the government that are just too weak, too shallow to be held for succour. Just like the turned water that settles after a while, the government and its security agencies, continue to whirl in reactionary gesticulations and invectives to clamp down, fish out and bring perpetrators to justice each time the bubble bursts, just to quickly recurl in sedation as the simmer relaxes.
The high profile killing by alleged herdsmen involving the daughter of the leader of Afenifere, Pa Fasoranti, Mrs Funke Olakurin, would have been thought to have by itself nudged the powers that be to take definite step to end this hogwash. But the incensed condemnation and the similarly high profile comments ended up the same way- of a relapse to inactivity while the marauders gallivant with ominous freedom.
The killing of Fr Jude Offu, not just one in the killing of Catholic priests, neither is it in the killings happening in Enugu state, is indeed one too many that deserves not only to be condemned, but a practical approach from government to stem the eerie tide. It will be wholesomely pathetic if the killing of this priest and the abduction of his RCCG colleagues should go the same usual way of mouthful vituperation and no pragmatic approach to mulling them.
It is my demand, therefore, that the perpetrators of this heinous crime of killing a soul and the similarly outrageous crime of holding men against will be brought to book. The government must do this by living up to its responsibility of providing security and defence for its citizenry.
These incidents, sad and worrisome as they are, are not the only horrendous news we've had to link with suspected herdsmen. Streaming our media outfits all along the years, and apparently with an incensed intensity just in the recent days, have been issues bothering on herdsmen this and herdsmen that.
The people, with the frequency of this cataclysm, have become disconcerted and similarly fed up with the assurances of safety by the government that are just too weak, too shallow to be held for succour. Just like the turned water that settles after a while, the government and its security agencies, continue to whirl in reactionary gesticulations and invectives to clamp down, fish out and bring perpetrators to justice each time the bubble bursts, just to quickly recurl in sedation as the simmer relaxes.
The high profile killing by alleged herdsmen involving the daughter of the leader of Afenifere, Pa Fasoranti, Mrs Funke Olakurin, would have been thought to have by itself nudged the powers that be to take definite step to end this hogwash. But the incensed condemnation and the similarly high profile comments ended up the same way- of a relapse to inactivity while the marauders gallivant with ominous freedom.
The killing of Fr Jude Offu, not just one in the killing of Catholic priests, neither is it in the killings happening in Enugu state, is indeed one too many that deserves not only to be condemned, but a practical approach from government to stem the eerie tide. It will be wholesomely pathetic if the killing of this priest and the abduction of his RCCG colleagues should go the same usual way of mouthful vituperation and no pragmatic approach to mulling them.
It is my demand, therefore, that the perpetrators of this heinous crime of killing a soul and the similarly outrageous crime of holding men against will be brought to book. The government must do this by living up to its responsibility of providing security and defence for its citizenry.
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