Reports filtering in say Nigeria’s President in one of his misguided actions allegedly ordered the military to conduct a search for concealed weapons in the official residence of the Catholic Bishop of Gboko in Benue State.
The soldiers reportedly stormed the official residence of the Catholic Bishop, ransack the nooks and crannies with no concealed weapons as alleged. They left leaving the official residence of the Bishop in higgledy-piggledy.
Reacting to the act of high-handedness in a statement, the Catholic Bishop described the act as barbaric and attack on all Christians in Nigeria.
The statement reads:
This is what happens when u have a one-sided government in place Today my house and the entire parish was turned inside out by the military in search for weapons.
This is what happens when u have a one-sided government in place Today my house and the entire parish was turned inside out by the military in search for weapons.
”They say I keep weapons, for heaven sake, I don’t do weapon. The Fulani herdsmen go about with heavy weapons killing innocent people and never a day has any one of them been harassed by the military.
”There are instances where the military has even assisted them to carry out their attacks on defenceless citizens. The soldiers we have in this country are one sided. Why are they trying to divide the very country they are called to defend on religious line. Would they have done this to an Imam or the mosque?” he queried.
Vesuwe Benjamin (Catholic Diocese of Gboko)
