The
founder of Omega Fire ministries, Johnson Suleman, in a sermon given at his
church’s parked auditorium called for the killing of Fulani herdsmen.
The controversial
Evangelical preacher, who caused a stir last year when he declared that the
governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, will die for his plan to pass a law
restricting public preaching, in a video footage told his congregants that he
was told of a plan by Fulani herdsmen to attack his convoy and shoot him.
It is unclear when the
video was recorded but the preacher’s reference to the recent crisis in
Southern Kaduna suggests the sermon might have been given any time within
October 2016 and January 2017.
“Somebody called me on
phone and said: ‘are you alone?’ I said yeah. He said I want to talk to you. I
said what is it. He said there is a plan to send Fulani herdsmen after you. I
said after who? He said after me. He said why are you saying okay? He said I’m
telling you to be careful. I said careful of what? He said they are going to
run into the road like herdsmen and cause some confusion and when your security
men are trying to clear them, clear them, you will come out and the will open
fire. I said Okay,” the cleric said.
The Auchi, Edo State
based pastor, added that the same person called him about two weeks later to
inform him that herdsmen have now planned to attack his church premises.
He said after the he
received the call he instructed his “people” to kill any Fulani herdsmen they
see around the church, to loud cheers of approval from the congregants.
Apparently spurred by
the noise of approval from his followers, he escalated the call for Fulani
herdsmen to be lynched.
“I have told them in
the church here that any Fulani herdsman that just enters by mistake and want
to pretend, kill him. Kill him. Cut his head. If they are busy killing
Christians and nothing is happening, we will kill them and nothing will happen,
he said pumping with emotions.”
-Premium Times
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