FAITH EXPRESS!!!
KADUNA REMAINS A MAJOR FLASH POINT
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Prophet Ben Luther-Moibi is the President of The
Christain Defenders initiatives,a body targeted at helping to stand against all forms of extremisms against
the course of humanity among the people of all faiths while using as a platform
to bring about peace and a more prosperous future for Nigeria as nation and
beyond,in this piece: The Editor-in-Chief of the E.N.M Paedia Express
Multimedia Group of Lagos, Nigeria, Abdulmumini Adeku interviews the clergy
turns whistle blower.
1]Do you think that many Christians in Nigeria will
agree with the new initiatives you are working on?
They most likely will not understand what am doing now
because to the best of my knowledge nobody has ever done that?
Those people who seems to be doing something very
similar are secular activists.
The reasons why they will agree with me is that i can
recall that Mallam Nasir El Rufai ,The Governor of Kaduna state of Nigeria had
recently sent out a bill to the state House of Assembly to regulate religious preaching's
across the state..
The bill titled:A bill for a law to substitute Kaduna
religious preaching laws,1984.
It is also aimed at banning the usage of loud speakers
for religious purposes other than inside the mosques or the church and the
surrounding areas outside the stipulated
prayer times.
Governor El Rufai in the bill exclusively wanted the
assembly to enact the law that will stop the playing or the circulation of
cassettes ,C.D.s ,D.V.D.s ,flash drives or any other communication gadgets
containing religion from accredited preachers other than inside one's house ,church,
mosque and other designated place of worship.
The bill seeks to ban the sales of the cassettes
containing religious recording which is to be used against any person or religious leader or organizations.
The bill process that anybody found guilty of
preaching without a valid license and any other offence under the law shall be
liable to 2 years of imprisonment or pay a fine of about N200,000.
Sharia Court and Customary courts under the bill if passed under the law
shall have the jurisdiction to try violators of the law .
Meanwhile some years back, Governor Sanni Yerima passed
the sharia law into practice and within a very short time almost all the
Northern states of Nigeria did the same thing at the time.
So Governor Nasir El Rufai is trying to do a similar
thing against the Church but now The Christian
Defender Initiatives is coming on board
to fight such bad government policies taken against The church of God.
And also ,there was a time that a wrong state policy
was passed that the Christians should stop all manner of campus fellowship at
The Katsina State University,Katsina.
in addition,their is a man called Mr Jim Obazee ,who
had carried out an evil mission of regulating The heads of churches,mosques
amongst others to serve just 20 years in
office as Head and who wanted this bill which was passed during Jonathan's era
to be passed into law but Buhari asked it should be suspended.
So now,God has now raised somebody like Prophet Ben
Luther -Moibi ,The President of the Christain Defenders Initiatives [C.D.I.]to
fight out all of this types of injustices.
Recently in Kaduna state ,many Christains had being
recently killed as a result of the crisis in and around Kajuru,so all of those
type of situations will demand justice and we will be involved all the way.
So if all Christian groups start to criticize me for
setting up this initiative then it will be highly unfortunate .
So essentially ,i expect them to join up hands with me
so that we can work togther on this big project.
2]Why don't you fold up your hands And then allow God to fight for You?
God will not fight until you are ready to fight,in the
Bible God raised a Jephtah to fight on behalf of the children of israel and he won the battle eventually .so God can
decide to raise any man that he wants and when he does that he will back him up
with the enablement.
All of us cannot be the same and so God can raise a Christian
charismatic warrior and in this case it is the Christian Defenders
initiatives[C.D.I.]
3]What are your targets in this initiative?
We want to be a watchdog looking for any policy that
any form of government wants to raise against the body of christ like killing.
If Christains are being persecuted and killed ,the
state's involved will be called to order and when the killings have stopped we
can take the government to court.
If any bill is to be passed which in our own
reasonable knowledge we think will affect The Church then we will be left with
no option than to protest against it.
We will use this medium to call on all governments in The
North whose states are in turmoil to do all that they can to maintain peace
otherwise we will be left with no choice than to go to court.
Because what it means is that if as a Governor of a
state whose sole responsibility is to provide security for lives and property is
found seriously wanting in this regards then somebody must have to answer into
a kind of query.
4]What kind of support base do you think you will need
when you get to start serious work?
It is an N.G.O.,hence we will need all the support
that we can get from all of our stakeholders.
We will need the human resources potentials of all
those who are Christians and have activism written in their blood and D.N.A,we
will need the body of Christ to pray along with us as God will have them do at
all times.
If you have any kind of information that is against
the course of humanity please feel free to share it with us by getting in touch
with us as this will help us greatly as well.
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