ICC Note: According to the prominent Nigerian thinker and politician Femi Fani-Kayode, Boko Haram is the not the only obstacle to Christianity in his country – the government must also be held liable. Despite the heart-wrenching violence that Christian men, women, and children have been subject to in lawless streets throughout the country, President Buhari has only awarded the murderers with impunity rather than justice. According to Kayode, he has been diligent in staffing his government and party with Islamic officials but has done essentially nothing to give Nigeria’s Christian population, the largest of any African country, its due representation. Buhari’s unjust government is unfortunately symptomatic of the general unlawfulness and corruption that has long affected African nations and millions of Christians. 

8/8/2016 Lagos, Nigeria (AllAfrica) – I am glad that Father Mbaka of the Catholic Church has finally seen the light and that he has denounced the Buhari regime.

This coming from a man that once supported the President vigorously, even when members of his own flock and faith were being slaughtered, marginalised and humiliated, is cheery news.

Yet there are still many more Church leaders that supported the Buhari government, that need to follow Mbaka’s example and recant.

The great philosopher, writer and intellectual, Mr. Dante Alighieri, once said that “the hottest place in hell is reserved for those who maintain their neutrality at a time of moral crisis”.

To add to this it was our very own Professor Wole Soyinka, the distinguished Nobel Laureate, that said “the man died in him who remained silent in the face of tyranny”.

I have no doubt in my mind that this is the time to speak out because we are not only in a time of great moral crisis in our country but we are also facing persecution and wholesale tyranny.

I am making this contribution not out of fear for the plight of the Christendom in Nigeria because I know that, as the Holy Bible says, “the gates of hell cannot prevail against the Church”. It also says “He who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps”.

It follows that no matter what the enemies of the gospel throw our way, including one million President Buharis, at the end of the day we shall prevail.

I am making this contribution not out of fear or to divide our nation but rather in an attempt to inform the Nigerian people and the world about what is really going on in President Buhari’s Nigeria.

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