From the pulpit, a cleric has sent a message and given President Muhammadu Buhari a period of three months within which to lift the proscription placed on pro-Biafia group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
He also wants the Buhari to declare killer herdsmen and bandits as terrorists, and follow up with a decisive action on them to avert the wrath of God on them.
Bishop Abraham Chris Udeh said in a message on Thursday after a fasting and prayer session, that God is angry with the present federal administration for negotiating with bandits.
The clergy expressed dismay that the government has given armed bandits and killer herdsmen the latitude to operate, engaging farmers and unarmed citizens in incessant bloody clashes.
His words: “It pains me that the Federal government had continued to allow herdsmen to be armed with dangerous weapons with which they attack innocent and unarmed citizens and still go scot-free, adding, it is ridiculous that government is unable to block the source of their arms and ammunition and yet declare these armed herdsmen a terrorist group and be treated as such”.
“Look at the way the Fulani herdsmen terrorize the Southern part of Nigeria including the South East and their mission is to Islamize the country. We all know that but it can’t work out. I assure them that the God of Ndigbo and God of Israel will strike all those who are behind that action.
”I will draw the hands of God and as it was in the days of Nebuchadnezzar who was punished because of his atrocities so shall it be again in our generation. The God of Heaven has never changed and can never change. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is still alive and He will never allow them to Islamize this country as they have planned”.
He warned presidential aspirants of Igbo extraction, saying their efforts would be a steeplechase except they were prepared to relinquish their birthrights –the farmlands in the eastern region for the herders.
