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Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by Danmas: 10:17am On May 08, 2016
Paul Obi and Kasim Suimana in Abuja
The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Metropolitan
See, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, on Saturday said
many Nigerians were now using the recent
herdsmen attacks to fan embers of religious
battle, discord and hatred among fellow citizens.
Onaiyekan stated this while unveiling a N300
million skill acquisitions and humanitarian centre,
tagged Marian Soup Kitchen in Abuja. The centre
was initiated by the priest of the Holy Cross
Catholic Church Gwarinpa, Rev. Dr. Willy Ojukwu.
The Cardinal told the gathering that the rise of
herdsmen attacks had continued to fuel division,
hatred and religious tension in the country, with
severe consequences for the nation.

“There is a terrible wind blowing around our
country right now. There are so many people who
are fanning the flames of discord and of hatred
and it is becoming very difficult to preach unity
and mutual natural love and there are those who
are already envisaging a clash between Christians
and Muslims.
“There are those who are interpreting the clash
between herdsmen and farmers as the front line
of this battle. Some are sharpening their
cutlasses getting ready for the big battle,”
Onaiyekan said.
He said: “Concerning the herdsmen, everybody
knows what government should do because one
of the primary duties of government is to ensure
security of life and property of all Nigerians;
which means that where you have any group of
people, whether they are herdsmen or kidnappers,
or armed robbers, government should device ways
of effectively checkmating them.”
He explained that even in the midst of this
quagmire, there are still exceptional cases.
“Thanks be to God there are many Nigerians who
believe that we are not doomed to kill one
another and that there is hope for us to live
together as fellow Nigerians.
“We have done it for many years. Despite the civil
war, we have lived together and the civil war in
any case was not a war between Christians and
Muslims. We have proved to the whole world that
we can live together,” Onaiyekan added.
He further stated, “I will go all over the world
boasting of this, telling them that in Nigeria, we
have not less than 80 million Christians, 80
million Muslims, living side by side, day by day at
every level of our lives, from the Executive Council
meetings in Aso Villa down to the women in Wuse
market. We must live together because nobody
has anything to gain in conflicts, confusion and
differences. Despite our differences, there is
something common that we share.
“What the Sultan and I have been preaching all
along is that the things that we have in common
are much more important than the things that
divide us. Even in doctrine, to believe that there is
one God, that is something great. Only a few mad
people will tell us that the God of Christians is
different from the God of the Muslims.
“To believe in this one God, that is something
great. When we suffered Ebola disease outbreak in
Nigeria, there was no Christian Ebola or Muslim
Ebola. We all faced it together. When we suffered
from corruption and bad government, is it as if
Christians are not concerned, only Muslim? Or,
Muslims are not concerned, only Christians?
“Among the thieves, there are Christians and
Muslims. And among all of us who are suffering
it are Christians and Muslims. We have a
common task to insist on good government, to
insist also on honesty in government. To do this,
we must come together and fix our common
challenges”, he added.
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III,
represented by the Executive Secretary, Abuja
National Mosque Management Board, Alhaji
Ibrahim Jega, said government should do more
for the less privileged, adding that Islam will never
teach violence, insurgency and wanton killings.
Jega urged the youth to shun violence and stick
to the teachings of both faiths. He further
encouraged the youths to make good use of the
centre and also appealed to the management of
Marian Soup Kitchen to make the centre as active
and accessible as possible to the less privileged
which is the core purpose for setting up the
centre.
On his part, Ojukwu contended that “religion
should not separate but unite us, hence, the
promotion of inter-religious harmony from the
grassroots. We should be our brothers’ and
sisters’ keeper, hence the feeding of the hungry,
counseling the downtrodden and giving hope to
the hopeless from all segments of the society”.

www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/05/08/onaiyekan-nigerians-using-herdsmen-attacks-to-incite-religious-crisis/

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by Flexherbal(m): 10:20am On May 08, 2016
Well said, sir.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by Luckylife(m): 10:21am On May 08, 2016
Ok
Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by malton: 2:07pm On May 08, 2016
Chief among those fanning the flames of discord and of hatred are the children of hate, AKA, the flattinos, builders and makers of every nation, region, state and city.

They've always been hateful. the attacks only provided them wheels on which to drive.

It's rather surprising how an individual stomachs all that hate and not get blown by it!

Without even giving him a trial chance, they outrightly wished him hell.

Dealing with these people is akin to trying to negotiate a crowded dancefloor without spilling your drink.

Just strut your stuff, Mr president, the majority have got your back! Besides, to succeed, not everyone has to like you.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by modath(f): 2:13pm On May 08, 2016
There are so many people who are fanning the flames of discord and of hatred and it is becoming very difficult to preach unity and mutual natural love and there are those who are already envisaging a clash between Christians and Muslims.

EoD cool

The irony of this is that the unseen hands fanning the embers of fire will within a couple of hours relocate their wives (their kids are either studying or have fully settled abroad) and favourite concubines outside the shores of this country soon as the embers snowball into a conflagration.....

War is only good for high wired action movies, casualties in reality are usually the innocent bystanders...... All

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by Caseless: 2:14pm On May 08, 2016
Well, the 'masqurade-dressers ' aka ipod yoot are to blame.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by TippyTop(m): 2:14pm On May 08, 2016
There is a terrible wind blowing around our
country right now.
There are so many people who
are fanning the flames of discord and of hatred
and it is becoming very difficult to preach unity
and mutual natural love and there are those who
are already envisaging a clash between Christians
and Muslims.

Buhari came to divide not to unite, why is everything bad happening under his administration?

Divisive Presidiot Buhari is the best thing to happen to Nigerian disintegration since 1914.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by omenka(m): 2:15pm On May 08, 2016
Hasn't this been the point some of us with the ability to scrape off the superficial dressing of this mess and examine the issues that lie beneath??

I'm glad this is coming from Onaiyekan whose recent comments those that seek to gain all possible political capital from the deliberately induced crises have been espousing.

Thing, like I've been hammering here, aren't what they seem. There is no doubt some dark forces are desperate to instigate a full blown religious crisis just to further their political gains as they've lost out woefully in the scheme of things from the last general elections.

The fact that even sighting a cow in our metropolis today constitutes a crime "comparable to rap£, murder, and theft" goes to show what these agents of destabilisation have up their sleeves. One thing they've forgotten is that they played this hand in 2015 and it worked only in their region without whose votes, the opposition still emerged victorious!

Nigeria will rise above these shenanigans and her enemies great and small shall be put to shame.

The president will succeed, Nigeria will and so shall her patriotic citizens.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by TippyTop(m): 2:16pm On May 08, 2016
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omenka:
Hasn't this been the point some of us with the ability to scrape off the superficial dressing of this mess and examine the issues that lie beneath??

I'm glad this is coming from Onaiyekan whose recent comments those that seek to gain all possible political capital from the deliberately induced crises have been espousing.

Thing, like I've been hammering here, aren't what they seem. There is no doubt some dark forces are desperate to instigate a full blown religious crisis just to further their political gains as they've lost out woefully in the scheme of things from the last general elections.

The fact that even sighting a cow in our metropolis today constitutes a crime "comparable to rap£, murder, and theft" goes to show what these agents of destabilisation have up their sleeves. One thing they've forgotten is that they played this hand in 2015 and it worked only in their region without whose votes, the opposition still emerged victorious!

Nigeria will rise above these shenanigans and her enemies great and small shall be put to shame.

The president will succeed, Nigeria will and so shall her patriotic citizens.
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How many epistles did you write when your people were being asskicked?

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by modath(f): 2:16pm On May 08, 2016
When we suffered Ebola disease outbreak in Nigeria.

There was no Christian Ebola or Muslim Ebola. We all faced it together. When we suffered from corruption and bad government, is it as Christians are not concerned,only Muslim? Or, Muslims are not concerned, only Christians

“Among the thieves, there are Christians and Muslims.And among all of us who are suffering it are Christians and Muslims. We have a common task to insist on good government, to insist also on honesty in government.To do this, we must come together and fix our common challenges”,

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by kcnwaigbo: 2:19pm On May 08, 2016
Caseless:
Well, the 'masqurade-dressers ' aka ipod yoot are to blame.

So the ipod youths are the ones killing people in the south and MB? At times I wonder if some people have brain cells at all

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by kcnwaigbo: 2:23pm On May 08, 2016
TippyTop:
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How many epistles did you write when your people were being asskicked?

Bros forget that guy is not from the MB

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by omenka(m): 2:24pm On May 08, 2016
Modath, isn't this what we have been saying?? I'm glad those who know better are gradually coming out to speak up.

I won't be surprised if the same people who were ecstatic over this same Cardinal's recent critical comments come out to insult the heck out of him.

The hate they harbour in their hearts have eaten up their minds so much they can hardly distinguish between an illusion/delusion and reality.

Buhari will remain the president for the next three years and if he desires, he will seek to be for another four years subject to the nod of Nigerians. A patch of spiteful inconsolable losers can eat their tongues and choke on it for all we care- it is not gonna change a darn thing.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by Caseless: 2:25pm On May 08, 2016
kcnwaigbo:


So the ipod youths are the ones killing people in the south and MB? At times I wonder if some people have brain cells at all
go back up, peruse , this time around, do it slowly before coming back to quote me.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by DropShot: 2:26pm On May 08, 2016
[s]
TippyTop:


Buhari came to divide not to unite, why is everything bad happening under his administration?

Divisive Presidiot Buhari is the best thing to happen to Nigerian disintegration since 1914.
[/s]
Are you related to this man?

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by kcnwaigbo: 2:28pm On May 08, 2016
Caseless:
go back up, peruse , this time around, do it slowly before coming back to quote me.

No need!! Your reasoning is defective please work on it.
To the topic.The SE has taken their fate into their hands,the bakassi boys are back.The herdsmen will be walking into their doom.Their AK-47s and knives will be useless against them.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by TippyTop(m): 2:30pm On May 08, 2016
kcnwaigbo:


Bros forget that guy is not from the MB

He is not from Kwara, he is from the MB.
I saw a post where someone was trying to question his state of origin. I've been on Nairaland since 2008 and can attest to the fact he comes from Benue. Am not surprised his state of origin has come under scrutiny but he hails from Benue. As long as he gets his bank alerts don't expect him to question Buhari's policies against his own people.


Every society has their own version of Joe Igbokwe, he is the Benue version.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by carinmom(f): 2:31pm On May 08, 2016
The Archbishop is on point, may God bless you for speaking the truth.

The Israelis AKA children of hate should take note.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by Caseless: 2:32pm On May 08, 2016
kcnwaigbo:


[s]No need!! Your reasoning is defective please work on it.
To the topic.The SE has taken their fate into their hands,the bakassi boys are back.The herdsmen will be walking into their doom.Their AK-47s and knives will be useless against them.[/s]

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by omenka(m): 2:34pm On May 08, 2016
TippyTop:
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How many epistles did you write when your people were being asskicked?
It's a pity I'm not here to indulge folks like you whose hearts have been ravaged by hatred beyond what the surgeons or shrinks at John Hopkins could ever fix, and it's a greater pity there's absolutely nothing you can do about what I do here.

Whoever gave you the idea your opinion which always flies in the face of logic and reason matters a whiff to me must have thought you the most impressionable toddler.

When you eventually get over yourself, you just might succeed in giving yourself a much needed lifeline to self redemption. At this rate, there's no telling you would end up at a mental asylum real soon.

You may as well go to hell and choke on your hatred, I couldn't care less.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by TippyTop(m): 2:35pm On May 08, 2016
DropShot:
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E Pain am hehehehehehe!!! grin grin grin

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by kennydee05(m): 2:35pm On May 08, 2016
We will surely overcome all these challenges we have artificially created by ourselves

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by DropShot: 2:36pm On May 08, 2016
TippyTop:



E Pain am hehehehehehe!!! grin grin grin

Slot in your name.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by modath(f): 2:37pm On May 08, 2016
Omenka, there are two groups of people, people who see white and may call it off white for diplomacy/peace sake and people who will insist it's purple cos they are looking through fixed opaque lenses that are already pre conditioned...

One thing I know is that wishes ain't horses, he who Jah has blessed, curses of men na mere exercise in futility... smiley

Howdy?

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by TippyTop(m): 2:37pm On May 08, 2016
[s]
omenka:
It's a pity I'm not here to indulge folks like you whose hearts have been ravaged by hatred beyond what the surgeons or shrinks at John Hopkins could ever fix, and it's a greater pity there's absolutely nothing you can do about what I do here.

Whoever gave you the idea your opinion which always flies in the face of logic and reason matter a whiff to me must have thought you the most impressionable toddler.

When you eventually get over yourself, you just might succeed in giving yourself a much needed lifeline to self redemption. At this rate, there's no telling you would end up at a mental asylum real soon.
[/s]

You should win this years [size=13pt]Joe Igbokwe Award[/size] without much rancour.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by malton: 2:39pm On May 08, 2016
omenka:
It's a pity I'm not here to indulge folks like you whose hearts have been ravaged by hatred beyond what the surgeons or shrinks at John Hopkins could ever fix, and it's a greater pity there's absolutely nothing you can do about what I do here.

Whoever gave you the idea your opinion which always flies in the face of logic and reason matter a whiff to me must have thought you the most impressionable toddler.

When you eventually get over yourself, you just might succeed in giving yourself a much needed lifeline to self redemption. At this rate, there's no telling you would end up at a mental asylum real soon.

That thing isn't worth your mention. Best ignore.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by TippyTop(m): 2:40pm On May 08, 2016
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DropShot:


Slot in your name.
[/s]

Abeg bone dis childishness ja re
Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by Danmas: 2:45pm On May 08, 2016
Farmers and harders crises is still ongoin in far north and u dont hear report of any hate speech by our media house but since its in another planet(region) you here something 10billion naira farm was destroyed, our women are raped and so on. 10b naira farm in Nigeria(how many do exist if at all we hav in nig.)
but where is lalasticlacla ?
Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by Danmas: 2:45pm On May 08, 2016
as much as i detest any form of criminality be it boko, militant terorist, hardsmen etc. but this particular one is deliverately over propagated by bloggers and our poor and unprofessional media houses.
Nigeria should be great again…
Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by demslayerrz: 3:01pm On May 08, 2016
TippyTop:
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How many epistles did you write when your people were being asskicked?

Waiting for you attack the Yorubas here since you were blaming them for the problem rocking your life. The likes of @firefire will now see clearly why i fight them here for sticking there necks for some people cos they will always denigrate there tribe.

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Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by TippyTop(m): 3:11pm On May 08, 2016
demslayerrz:


Waiting for you attack the Yorubas here since you were blaming them for the problem rocking your life. The likes of @firefire will now see clearly why i fight them here for sticking there necks for some people cos they will always denigrate there tribe.

Bros leave Oshogbo weed alone. Nigeria is a democracy and firefire can choose who ever he feels he should support. Many people from Edo state here support Buhari, you don't see me forcing them to support PDP.

Check out the numbers of Igbo, Edo, Urhobo etc supporters of APC on Nairaland.
I think you should seriously solve your underlying problem of self esteem and insecurity, leave politics for matured minds.
Re: Nigerians Using Herdsmen Attacks To Incite Religious Crisis- Onaiyekan by Firefire(m): 3:16pm On May 08, 2016
demslayerrz:


Waiting for you attack the Yorubas here since you were blaming them for the problem rocking your life. The likes of @firefire will now see clearly why i fight them here for sticking there necks for some people cos they will always denigrate there tribe.

Ki lo de now, stop quoting me up and down. Say your mind and move on, oju ọrun to ẹiye fo la ifi ara kan'ara. Se dan-dan ni ki gbogbo wa sun' ki a ki ori si ibikan ni ? Haba! Jọ oooo, Jọ ooooooo

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