Let me shatter the glass houses most Nigerian Christians lives in including Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor. Contrary to earlier statements by Pa Ayo about Boko Haram and Islam, many of the Coordinated attacks are carried out by Christians not even Muslims. How on earth can Oritsejafor suggest Boko Haram as an Islamic movement toward eradicating Christians?
I am now beginning to doubt the genuineness of Oritsejafor's Christianity, he may be an agent of destruction against peace and humanity. He may well be doing the contracted assignment he was hired and paid for by his Oga at the top (give a dog a bad and hang it) that earns him a private jet, he must push hard to grab another gift this, time around may be a yacht.
Forget about Pa Ayo. Let me give you a few scenarios where Christians are caught black handed on the verge of an attack and prove Pa Ayo's allegations to be unholy.
It's on records, the number of many Christians whom were apprehended during the causes of their attacks with explosives and many weapons, some even arrested while trying to attack churches and yet Pa Ayo is busy calling Islam a terror group.
Sit up and read how Christians unleashed terror in Nigeria but yet, nobody seems to remember them because they don't belong to the critical party of interest.
* At least 138 youths were yesterday 3/10/2013 arrested from seven buses loaded with arms by men of the Taraba State Police Command, following intelligence report that they have been recruited by one of the orthodox churches that has a very large followership in the state for a malevolent purpose to attack police stations and government installations in Taraba State. Had it been the mission of this youths and their Churches were accomplish, no authority in this world will erase the names of Boko Haram and Islam in this evil plans.
* On the 1st Oct. 2010, the independence day bombing was the first major bomb attack witnessed in Nigeria with MEND claiming responsibility. Are MEND fighters Muslims? Ask Pa Ayo.
* A BBC documentary on the 29th Sept 2011, released videos of 28th of August 2011, as Birom (Berom) Christians in Plateu State were recorded eating human flesh of Muslims they had killed and roasted.
* Another on the 26th Feb. 2012, nine christians were apprehended when they attempted to bomb a COCIN church at Miya Barkate, 20 kilometres along Jos-Bauchi Highway in Bauchi State including a former secretary of PDP in the local government. Are this nine terrorist Muslims?
* Again on the 23th June 2012, four Christians were arrested trying to plant a time bomb at Waje Friday mosque in Fagge Local Government Area of Kano.
* The suspects that sprayed bullets on the Gombe Deeper Life Church worshipers of which the suspects arrested were Igbos and Christian.
* There was also the Gombe township bombing which involving two men, named Hassan Ojudu and Samaila Yakubu, all of them Christians.
* Another woman Miss Lydia Joseph, a Christian prostitute also arrested while trying to attack St. John Catholic church in Bauchi.
* Also arrested was a Christian named Emmanuel King, who disguised as a Muslim wearing a turban and kaftan, attempting to bombed down the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Yenagoa the Bayelsa state capital.
* There was also the arrest of one Madam Ruth trying to bomb down the ECWA church in the Kalarin area of Kaltungo in Gombe State who is also a Christian.
* On January 11, 2012 two Nigerians named, Sunday Eze from Anambra State and Samuel Taiwo from Ogun State and some three Ghanaians were arrested in Ghana with some heavy weaponry carefully concealed in a truck, which was to be brought to Nigeria. May be the Sultan sent Sunday Eze to buy arms that will be use in killing Christians.
* On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 a 38 year old man named Monday Davou, a Christian was arrested while planting a timed Improvised Explosive Device (IED) or time bomb, at the Makera weekly market in Riyom Local Government Area, Plateau State.
* The DAILY SUN newspaper of Monday, February 20, 2012 on page 12 reported the arrest in Akure, Ondo State of a gang of five armed robbers led by one Evangelist Wale Adelu, an evangelist of one of the old generation
churches, which has branches in the state capital and they were said to be meeting in his church before they proceeded on any robbery operation. Wouldn't this evangelist and his gang agree to bomb churches for a fee?
* Similarly, the SATURDAY SUN newspaper of Saturday, March 10, 2012 on page 10 reported that 11 cartons of explosives imported from South Africa and carefully packaged to beat security checks were intercepted by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The consignments were said to be for Miero Marble Granite and Stones Limited in Kaduna State, with one Michael Awara Ernest as the representative to collect the explosives at the cargo terminal. I think Pa Ayo wasn't aware of all this Christians involved in Boko Haram operations.
* The THISDAY newspaper of Friday, January 13, 2012 on page 6 culled a news report from the BBC in which a British-based arms dealer, Gary Hyde was being prosecuted in a London court for unlawfully arranging the shipment of about 80,000 guns and 32 million rounds of ammunition from China to Nigeria in 2007. But, the big question is, to whom did he make his shipment? To Muslim radicals or to churches going criminals?
* On Sunday, February 19, 2012. Four Christians were arrested while trying to detonate explosives at the St. Theresa's Catholic Parish, High-level in Makurdi the Benue State capital.
* A Christian was also arrested while trying to drive past the gate of Thisday office with loaded explosives in his car at Kaduna.
* On the 29th May 2011, about four Christian women were arrested in connection with the Mami market bombing of Artillery brigade barracks in Bauchi state.
* On the 21st May 2012, a Christian called John Akpabu, a suicide bomber who targeted ministerial briefing, arrested with 37 rounds of live ammunition and 3 hand grenades and other explosives at the National Press Centre, Radio House in Abuja.
Why is Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as a religious leader trying to instigate violence among Nigerians? On what basis is Pa Ayo saying Muslims created Boko Haram in order to kill Christians? Is this not a concrete evidence to show Nigerian Christians that Boko Haram isn't all about Islam? Are this Christians involved in killing Christians and bombing churches contracted by Muslims to carry attacks on Christianity?
If Boko Haram is aimed at eradicating Christians, why are they not based in Anambra? Where Christians dominated. Is Anambra protected by divine powers that BH can't coordinate attacks there? If yes, I think the divine restrictions are not limited to kidnappers and armed robbers.
Why would Christianity be a focal point to Nigerian Muslims in abject poverty trying to earn a living? Is Maiduguri and Yobe the only northern states with Christians population? Why not Kebbi and Niger states that are having Christians as indigenous settlers?
Isn't better for Pa Ayo to concentrate on the current problems facing Nigeria today than utterances aimed at igniting violence? Resident Doctors and university lecturers are on strike and Pastor Oritsejafor is there saying Nigerian Christians are treated as second class citizens.
If care is not taken, Pa Ayo Oritsejafor will do to Nigeria more harm than Boko Haram itself.
I don't know the reasons for Pa Ayo's continual opposition to non profit banking. Nigerians across religious lines appreciates the value of Islamic banking, Oritsejafor kept fanning an ember of discord on it by claiming that Islamic banking was targeted at Nigeria Christians.
He seems to have forgotten that the whole idea of Islamic Banking in Nigeria was initiated as a matter of policy by Lamido’s predecessor in office, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo (a Christian), and that the operating officer in charge of that window is Tunde Lemo also a Christian both of whom are alive and in Nigeria today.
If Islamic Banking is aimed at Christianity in Nigeria against which religion is it aimed in Europe, America and Asia where it is, being championed by Christian, Buddhists and Hindus? How can a sincere religious leader concocts lies and misrepresent a general fiscal policy being implemented in many countries as a design against Churches in Nigeria?
I am also astonished by Pastor Oritsejafor’s continual jibes against Islam and Muslim leaders with the aim of heating up the polity thereby aggravating religious tension in the country.
Hear the utterances of a so-called religious leader against an opposition politician. Oritsejafor had this to say, “He (Buhari) is, therefore, the prime leader of this religious and blood thirsty sect called Boko Haram, a movement that is based on a warped interpretation of a strict adherence to force people of other religions into Islam.
“This kind of fundamentalism is the driving force behind his failure in each election in the country.” so shameful.
In the Ortisejafor School of thought, it is worse apostasy for a Bishop to be found in the congregation of Muslims. The two religions, though founded by children of the same father, do not see eye to eye. I must salutes Pastor Oritsejafor's rapacious accuracy with which he determines the number of Christians killed in Boko Haram blasts when the flames are still smouldering.
Before Pa Ayo tell me he's a man God, let him first publishes the income and expenditure account of his ministry for the last three years as well as that of CAN in at least five Nigerian newspapers, he should also bring evidence of any evil servant he has preached to and made to renounce corruption or any arm robber he has made to renounce stealing and murdering people.
Pa Ayo has for a while been saying that Boko Haram is a plan crusade against Christianity. That Muslims are set to Islamatice the north and kill all northern Christians, saying that was the reason why Muslims founded Boko Haram just to wipe out Christians. To my surprise, many Christians believed this clueless misinterpretation of Islam by Pastor Oritsejafor not knowing it's just a plan to impose hatred toward Islam and Muslims.
Boko Haram will never be an Islamic group, they are simply deployed to terrorise Islam by unknown evils probably with the likes of Pastor Oritsejafor. Boko Haram is a terrorists group hiding under the shed of Islam to execute disastrous attacks on lives and properties irrespective of tribe or religion and their fighters comprises people from different backgrounds and religious borders.
Enough of this useless and pointless allegations by Pastor Oritsejafor against Islam. The Federal Government and the leadership of Nigerian Christians should as a matter of fact call Pastor Oritsejafor to order, before he destroys the little unity remaining in Nigeria today. He and his evil plans should be put to a halt before he escalates a crisis that Nigerian forces can't handle and control.
Usama A. Dandare
Movement for accountability
and good governance.
@osadaby
05/10/2013
