•Says preaching peace becoming difficult •Free humanitarian service centre launched The Metropolitan Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, yesterday asked the Buhari Administration to urgently device effective means of stopping the killing of innocent Nigerians by herdsmen, and kidnapping, among other social vices. He said there is so much tension in the country that makes preaching of unity and mutual natural love difficult. “There are so many people who are fanning the flames of discord and of hatred and it is becoming very difficult to preach unity and mutual natural love and there are those who are already envisaging a clash between Christians and Muslims,” Onaiyekan said at the inauguration of Marian Soup Kitchen (MSK), a centre for free humanitarian services, Gwagwalada, alongside the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar. The Cardinal who recently escaped death in an ambush by suspected herdsmen in Delta State added: “there are those who are interpreting the clash between Fulani’s herdsmen and farmers as the front line of this battle. Some are shaping their cutlasses getting ready for the big battle.” “Everybody knows what government should do because one of the primary duties of government is to ensure security of life and property of all Nigerians, which means where you have any group of people whether they are Fulani’s herdsmen or kidnappers, or armed robbers, government should device ways of effectively checkmating them. “There is a terrible wind blowing around our country right now. Thanks-be to God that there are many Nigerians who do not believe that we are doomed to kill one another, that there is hope for us to live together as fellow Nigerians. “We have done it for many years. Despite the civil war, we have lived together and the civil war in any case was not a war between Christians and Muslims. How can it be when the then Head of State, Gen. Yakubu James Gowon, was a Christian. We have proved to the whole world that we can live together.
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