By Ugar Ukandi Odey, Jos
Prophet Isa El Buba of the Evangelical Bible Outreach Ministries International has decried the state of insecurity and killings going on in Nigeria, pointing out that 99% of the trouble all over the country is perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen because Buhari is presiding over an agenda to Fulanize Nigeria.
Speaking during a chat with pressmen in Jos, Prophet El Buba, who is also the national vice president of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, said the killings going on in different parts of the country are “unacceptable and condemnable”, and regretted that these killings happen “because of the irresponsibility of the government of the day”.
He said “we cannot sit down and be watching – in the twenty first century Nigeria, that any tribe can think that they can subdue and reduce the entire country and put it under their control. It is not going to work!”
Thus, El Buba continued, “I will demand that the flash points, especially on the Plateau should be specifically attended to. The President knows those who are doing these things. He knows them! He knows those who are carrying out these killings. I have said it before. I said it when he was just coming in newly in 2015. And I’m repeating it: the Presidency knows those who are behind the crises in this country!”
“It is not the right thing to try to silence those who stand up to speak the truth. It is rather time to hear the truth, accept the truth, and work with the truth. The words of the scripture cannot be broken: ‘you shall know the truth; and the truth shall set you free’” , the Prophet warned.
El Buba also identified the Northern elites as the real problem of the North and the bane of development in the region. He the elites use religion to confuse and manipulate the masses. The masses, he said, are made to believe that if a Muslim is killed, it is an attack on Islam. It is not! And the killing of any Fulani man is not an attack on Islam! “It is not Islamic in any way”, he said, adding that “don’t in any way try explain the wickedness that is going on in the country now in terms of religion”.
He said as Christian and Muslims “we must learn to live together, especially we in Northern Nigeria”, noting that the sure way to survive as a people is ”for us to believe in one another”.
He admonished the Northern elites to note that their time is winding up as the masses would soon rise in revolt against them and destroy the seeds of discord the elites have been sowing over time to enable them control and manipulate the system. He also urged the Northern masses to realize that it is high time they upheld the “glory of the North and give peace a chance so that we can all experience prosperity and progress”.
Saying enough is enough, Buba regretted the unfortunate situation in which “banditry is North, kidnapping is North, poverty North, backwardness North. Why?”
