Bishop Seun Adeoye, an Osun clergyman, has asked survivors of the Christmas Day carnage in Plateau State to rise up and protect themselves.
While denouncing the Christmas Day killings in Plateau State, Bishop Adeoye also termed the footage uploaded from the attack places as horrifying.
The preacher, in his New Year Message headlined “Never fold your arms again” and issued in Osogbo, Osun State’s capital on Sunday, said that it was tragic that people would be murdered like chickens in their father’s land while security services were nowhere to be seen.
He expressed his condolences to the victims and advised the survivors to protect themselves in the future.
According to him:
“Never fold your arms and allow agents of Satan destroy you, your wives and your children. Please, rise up and fight back against these murderers.
“Plateau state killings, just like Benue and Kaduna states didn’t just begin, they have been occurring over the years. So, why did these continue?
“If these dastardly acts cannot be nipped in the bud by security agencies and if the government has failed its duty to protect the victims, what then did you expect the people to do?
“The options left to them is either to relocate from their fathers land and take refuge in other places or rise to the challenge by defending their wives and children.
“We have right to live and I have never read any portion of the Nigerian constitution where self-defence is an offence or read it anywhere in the Bible where self-defence is forbidden.
“The duty of government is to protect lives and property, but Bola Tinubu’s presidency has failed in all of these. Nigeria didn’t need an armchair president trolling markets, hosting friends and wining and dining when a calamity of such magnitude befell a nation.
“What’s the Nigerian police policing? What’s the territory the Nigerian Army says they are protecting? Who has been held to account for these heinous acts? This situation is sad and shameful.”
cc: Daily Post Ng
