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By Adeze Ojukwu
Nigeria Christian Graduate Fellowship(NCGF) has condemned the attack on St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, and called on President Muhammad Buhari to end the carnage.
The group stated this on Monday, in Benin, Edo State capital, during a press conference, on the state of the nation.
President of NCGF, Prof Chuka Eboka, in his presentation tagged “A clarion call for National Transformation and Transparent Elections,” said the “fellowship like many other Nigerians, were again shocked and traumatized, by the news of the wanton killings in the Church. Dead bodies of men and women, boys and girls were carried out of St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo in Ondo State, like butchered cows from the slaughter House.
The fellowship also criticized the recent killing of Miss Deborah Samuel, who was stoned to death and lynched by her classmates, at the Shehu Shagari College of Education (SSCOE), Sokoto.
“For how long should we live with this carnage!! This has happened over and over again, with lives of Nigerians being at the mercy of Boko Haram, killer herdsmen and the so-called bandits.”
According to him, this has happened over and over again, with lives of Nigerians being at the mercy of Boko Haram, killer herdsmen and the so-called bandits.
“We are grieved that there no longer exists any safe place in our country today. Nigerians cannot go to church to worship and feel safe; they cannot travel by road and by train in safety. Innocent lives are being wasted every day.”
“We call on President Buhari to urgently arrest this headlong descent into anarchy. We refuse to believe that our Military is unable to effectively rein in those who are terrorizing our people. Enough is enough.”
Harping on the need for stability and security ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, Prof Eboka said “in the last few years, notable Nigerians, distinguished scholars, corporate chieftains, Afenifere, Ohaneze, the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), the Middle Belt Forum, the Northern Elders Forum, Nigerian Christian Elders Forum, several other regional groups, the media, faith-based organizations as well as the International Community, have expressed great concern over the fragility and precariousness of the state of affairs in our nation.”
According to him, the dominant view for many of these groups is the urgency for constitutional review, in order to enable the nation experience a rebirth, through some form of restructuring or a referendum. Other resonant calls are for resource control, fiscal federalism as well as self-determination.”
“A secure and equitable environment should, therefore, be provided urgently for free and fair elections to be conducted. Right now, free and fair elections to produce credible leadership is not likely given the present circumstances in the nation,” he stressed.
In its communique, the organization called on “the National Assembly should invoke the doctrine of necessity” to give a legal backing to a Re-Work Eminent Personalities Team(REPTs).
“The team should work towards tackling the growing tide of agitations and insecurity and provide a context in which free and fair elections can be conducted.”
The communique reads:
“Any aspirant for any political office, especially the Presidency, who cannot take a public stand on the Constitution is not fit to lead.”
“Pleasure without productivity has ruined our economy and is ruining our youth population. Jumbo salaries are being paid to unproductive political office holders who fail to make laws in line with good governance!”
“They are not creating jobs but rather causing industries to shut down and making Nigeria a country with one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. Our young people are, therefore, turning to cybercrime and other illicit ways of making money, like kidnapping for ransom.”
“The continued closure of our universities is vexatious and counter-productive in our quest for a great nation. Other nations who had successfully managed their similar heterogeneous cultural and religious configurations and made progress at all fronts while building their GDP and human indexes should be examples to help our nation’s elite/leaders in making strategic decisions.”
“In view of the huge and unprecedented debt profile of the country, the alarming cases of fraud and corruption by senior Government officials, the devaluation of the Naira, as well as the impunity with which bandits and terrorists carry out mindless killings of innocent citizens, it is important to note that Nigerians have lost faith and trust in the current ruling class, regardless of the parties to which they belong.”
“The poverty in the nation, which has earned us the disgraceful title of “the poverty capital of the world”, has obviously been of no concern to our political leaders, as demonstrated by the glee with which they paid obscene sums of money merely to obtain nomination forms for Presidential and other elective positions, as well as the further rain of money to buy the votes of Party delegates at primaries. The Delegate–Votes-Buying-with-US–Dollars at the Primaries is indeed a show of shame.”
“It is time to rescue our nation from this blood-sucking group of people.”
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