Fervent Prayer, Fasting Is The Way to End Nagging Menace in Nigeria – NIFROP

Religious leaders in the country have been urged to be united in prayers to complement the efforts of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government in taming ethnopolitical killings and kidnapping in the country.

The National Inter-Faith and Religious Organisations for Peace (NIFROP), which said fervent prayer and fasting remain the role of religious leaders to the nagging menace in Nigeria also called on clergymen and women for concerted spiritual efforts towards rendering the evil of kidnapping, ethnic killings and banditry null and void whilst supporting security agencies to carry out their duties towards defeating them.

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The group at a press conference on Sunday, through its leader, Bishop Prince Madaki, also warned messengers of God who covertly or overtly promote ethnic rife and propagate hate sermons to bolster the activities of killers in the name of politics or religion to desist as it would do the nation no good.

Noting that Nigeria has been blessed by the Almighty God with abundant natural and Human Resources today, Madaki said it is clear that those who fear the prosperity of the country will never go to bed to sleep.

“But today, we are being tormented by evil men and the country is in severe violent conflicts and killings being instigated by some demonic and selfish Nigerians. This is a painful fact known to all of us seated here and the generality of Nigerians in states, communities, and homesteads.

“We cannot pretend about this frustrating reality. Whether in Southern or Northern Nigeria, there are choking and consuming crises everywhere in the land, as if we are competing in bloodbath and arson against ourselves. These are an avoidable crisis but for politics and tribal differences, many have refused to say the truth and by that, the blood-flow has continued.”

Stating that Nigeria’s map is now redesigned and coloured with blood, anguish, pains and awful destructions, the cleric noted that most touchy is the realization that as Nigerians, we are collectively responsible for the widespread and condemnable bloodshed on the land which has clearly reduced our worth before the Creator.]\

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“Yesterday, it was Boko Haram and all thanks to our military and the President, that has faded from our country’s history and just a little to totally extinguish them.

“Though we haven’t given our military all it takes but they have continued to do their best.

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