Anglican Church Cautions Buhari Over Biafra Militants; Calls for Dialogue

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The Diocese of Abuja of the Church of Nigeria, (Anglican Communion) has noted that the renewed pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta was not in the best interest of Nigeria.
It therefore urged those behind the bombing of oil installations in the region to desist from the act forthwith.
The church called on the Niger Delta Avengers to cease hostility against the government while embracing dialogue, noting that Nigeria, which is currently engaged with too many battles cannot afford to start another one with Biafra militant freedom fighters in the oil producing areas of the federation.
The Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) and Archbishop of Abuja Diocese, Most Rev Nicholas D. Okoh, made the remarke in his presidential address to the third session of the ninth Synod of Abuja Diocese, held at All Saints Church, Wuse.

While urging the federal government to also tread cautiously in its attempts to resolve the growing crises in the Niger Delta, the church called on it to seek collaboration with the host communities in its efforts to secure all pipelines.
He also urged the federal government to open the space for immediate revival of the dwindling Nigerian economy by creating investment friendly atmosphere for more foreign investors to henceforth, take Nigeria as a preferred destination.
He lauded the efforts by President Buhari towards diversifying the Nigerian economy, urging his government to initiate more cutting-edge approaches aimed towards a meaningful engagement of foreign investors for revival of the economy of the country.
He based his talk on the theme of the this year’s Synod, “The Poverty of Riches”, taken from the book of Revelation, 3 vs17, stating that notwithstanding the prosperity that a country enjoys, it may suffer spiritual poverty and then end up being poor (on the real in all ramifications) if the leaders and the led are careless and Godless.
He said: “Creating an investment friendly environment in the country will more pragmatically give us what we need. Factors that investors will need to thrive, especially security, power and other amenities should be made available, while investors would be naturally attracted.”
The Primate said the federal government and

Nigerians in general should collectively find lasting solutions to the problem of insurgency, killings by herdsmen, fuel scarcity, pipeline vandalism and wide spread corruption, all he noted, are factors that often inhibit the growth of economy, and the nation in general.
On the menace of herdsmen across the federation, the primate said: “The federal government should make a policy to deliberately disarm the herdsmen” as a means of preventing the springing up of ethnic militias in all the regions of the federation in attempts to resist the rampage by herdsmen.”
“The synod calls on the National Assembly to drop the plan to propose a bill on grazing reserve as the issue has started heating up the polity whereas such will not do the herdsmen any good.”

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