‘Quit notice’ saga over, but Christians in high anxiety
by Hassan John, Global Christian News.
Two days before Nigeria’s independence anniversary, October 1, many Christians from the south, especially the Igbo tribe, fled to their home towns fearing attack by Muslim youths…
…Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi, who himself has been in the middle of similar religious crisis and who has been attacked a number of times said, “All of these have arisen because of a colossal failure of the leaders in Nigeria in 57 years. And because of leadership failure, other misfortunes of Nigeria have aggregated themselves to the stage where they have become the news from Nigeria…
…They lacked the vision, they didn’t create a vision for Nigeria for generations yet unborn. They created a Nigeria to solve their immediate problems. They were not looking at the future. Opportunities have been squandered badly. Opportunity for reconciliation, after the civil war, is now back again…
… The hope for the country, the archbishop noted rests squarely on the church. “The church must speak for justice because the injustice in the land is glaring. Everybody sees it. You don’t have to talk about injustice because it is obvious. It doesn’t matter whether it is in the courts or in governance, or anywhere.
“So if there is any call I am making to Christians is to say it is the time to rise up to fight injustice, to rise up to speak to evil and fight it, to rise up to speak to governance and to get involved in governance and politics.” Kwashi said. “We have a 57-year-old problem, we are problem solvers,” he added.
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