The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese
His Lordship Most Rev. Dr. Paulinus Ezeokafor and the Catholic Bishop of Ahiara
Diocese His Lordship Most Rev. Dr. Peter Eberechukwu Okpaleke have reacted over
the recent Boko Haram Swap deal claim saying that giving in to their wish will
amount to promotion of criminality, rascality and break down of law and order.
The two catholic Clerics who spoke
to the reporter in a telephone interview said that agreeing to their ungodly
desire would not only spell doom to Nigeria Nation but would as well engineer
other disgruntled and ill-informed groups to lay claim and ask for what is not
right before man and God and also pave way for atrocities of various degrees.
Hear them, ‘it is not proper to
start to negotiate with faceless people because we know that they have no right
to what they are doing, therefore, there will be no ground for any negotiation
whatsoever. They should allow the children to go; because they have no business
with them. Our stand is that Federal Government should ignore them and forge
ahead with whatever they are doing to ensure the release of the abducted Chibok
School Girls; it is not proper for the government in any form at all to start
negotiating with them because that will be enthroning criminality, because
eventually, they will come up with another antics’, they said
The duo said that the Church has
continued to say that as a nation and as a people nobody should have any reason
whatsoever to start to dialogue with them, adding that their act was against
God and humanity. ‘There is no reason any body should be made to undertake
compulsory conversion into any religion. It is barbaric, absurd and
condemnable. So, we the Church have resorted to praying to God to touch the
hearts of the Boko Haram or whoever behind or in any way involved in the
abduction of the innocent school children for the onward release.
By Abuchi
Onwumelu
Boko Haram Swap Deal: Bishop Ezeokafor, Okpaleke React
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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