By Polycarp Gbaja
I do not have any recent news on Leah Sharibu. She has seemingly been simply forgotten by the federal and state governments, along with the others abducted.
I think we have all gone to sleep in this country. We seem to have become a people lacking honour and dignity, decency and conscience, courage, or conviction.
Many of these matters are not only PRAYER issues, but RESPONSIBILITY issues. We have just abandoned what people of honour and faith do in everyday living. We may say we are Christians, but our speeches and actions, or lack of it, show that we lack the basic qualities of true humanity, not to talk of divinity.
It is not only about going on a spree of begging God. But DOING the simple things of being our neighbours keeper. To love them as ourselves, as per the Greatest Commandment: In Matthew 22:37-40 NKJV,
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments, hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
We live in Nigeria, displaying utter self centeredness, selfishness, corruption, greed, denial and deception, and total injustice as a culture.
That is the real problem.
When Lot was abducted, Abraham did NOT go to any altar to pray (at least we are not told). He simply mobilised his well trained household, went after the abductors, wiped them out, and brought back his nephew from captivity after dispossessing the useless terrorists.
The same is true with David at Ziklag. He just asked for clearance from God, then went after the culprits who abducted their wives and children. Mostly, what we have done for 15 years is talk endlessly on social media. Except for the South West who came together, passed legislation, formed Amotekun, and went after the vermins of Fulani Militia, called by various aliases.
That is what needs to be done across the country, in all regions/zones, with active support of the federal government. God can not take responsibility for us. 237 million Nigerians are crying over less than 1 million bastards who came into our country to invade, decimate and occupy our communities for the past 15 years.
What really have we been praying?
Do we even read our Bible? We have so left the path of God, we are unable to do simple things, even humans who do not claim to ‘know God’ are doing in their countries. We just run away to those same countries and leave undone what we should be doing in ours.
So, our country and villages have fallen to godless, illiterate idiots from the Sahel, who kill, rape, enslave, and destroy our people and take over our land. Plateau State’s Governor Mutfwang just announced that 64 communities have been invaded and taken over by Fulani Militia in Plateau State alone!
The shame can not even be spoken of. We have become a disgrace in the eyes of the international community. I think there is NO country in the world today as shameful as Nigeria because of insecurity and corruption. We are still the country with the highest level of multidimensional poverty in the world, as announced by global bodies and institutions, including the UN.
Leah Sharibu, I heard, was enslaved as a sex slave to four different men. The Press and Federal Government choose to use the term ‘forcefully married’. She has three children. We simply don’t talk about her anymore.
What to pray for?
* That real men will be awakened and shaken out of the cowardice and gutlessness that has now become our culture in Nigeria today. When real men arise, insecurity will be neutralised, along with the very SICK political leadership that has been ‘chosen’, forced upon or allowed by very sick people who badly need to repent, beginning from ALL our G.Os, bishops, pastors to elected officials, community leaders, captains of industry and various civil and professional organisations and institutions.
* That faith, truth, righteousness, justice and equity would become our culture of honour, by which we live, as light and salt in the earth.
● Gbaja, a reverend gentleman, posted this on social media as his response to a concerned individual seeking for information on Leah Sharibu for prayer purposes.
