00:00I will not shout at this video because as you can see, I'm a bishop. Watch this video, take your time, listen to information, make sure you share this video, let the whole world see. Bless you. Let's go.
00:14Look, look, look, look, I couldn't wait to get back home and be a part of the ongoing conversation.
00:21There's been this conversation going on on whether there's a genocide in Nigeria or there's no genocide in Nigeria.
00:28And I listen to certain individuals who say there's no such thing in Nigeria.
00:32Well, whether you call it genocide or you don't call it genocide, let me speak as a victim.
00:38I am not just a student of research, but I'm speaking as a victim of these gruesome circumstances around the Nigerian people
00:47where innocent lives have been taken away by some people who think they have more right than others in this nation.
00:54And some people have reduced it to herders and farmers clash.
00:57No, sir. This has been ongoing.
00:59I grew up in northern Nigeria.
01:02My father was a pastor with the Assemblies of God Church.
01:04One morning, we just woke up in Assemblies of God Church, Samaruzaria,
01:10somewhere adjacent the north gate of Samaruzaria.
01:14My father was a pastor.
01:15All of a sudden, we woke up in the morning, no provocation, nothing.
01:19And the next thing we were hearing was people were just running all over our house and the church with matchets and all of that.
01:25The next thing was they started pouring petrol all over the building,
01:28both the church and the house because our house was attached to the church.
01:31And the next thing was flames.
01:33Everything was burnt right down to ashes.
01:36We narrowly escaped, found a place where we could shelter ourselves in the military barracks.
01:41Eventually, they brought us back to the lecturer's quarters of EBU's area.
01:45And we had to camp with a family for weeks and months before we could rebuild and start life all over again.
01:53That is long, long, long.
01:54I'm talking about 1986, 87.
01:57What about the Metasine situation?
01:58Metasine was a sect of the Islamic religion who went around burning and destroying and killing Christians back in the 80s.
02:06This is far before there was anything like farmers and herders clash.
02:11Then fast forward, fast forward, fast forward.
02:14What about in the year 2000, where over 2,000 people were killed in Kaduna, year 2000?
02:20What about the over 300 people that were victims of the Miss World in November 2002?
02:25All of them, they were not a part of the Miss World.
02:28They were just on their own.
02:30Something happened somewhere else and they became victims of it.
02:33Lives were killed.
02:34Houses were destroyed.
02:35And whenever they are carrying out this chariot, they will be shouting,
02:38Allaha Kabbalah, Allaha Kabbalah.
02:40And they will carry their matches and carry whatever they have.
02:43And they will move in their numbers.
02:45They will move in their numbers.
02:46And everybody on their way that is not chanting what they are chanting becomes a victim.
02:52I can go on and on.
02:53A few years ago, I was preaching in Kaduna for a great man of God.
02:57And I only succeeded in preaching Sunday morning service.
03:00After the service, the next morning, as we were preparing for the next service on Monday,
03:04The next thing I was hearing was, the whole city is on fire.
03:07Kaduna is on fire.
03:08Please stay in the hotel room.
03:09Don't come out.
03:10They are killing their burning churches.
03:11They are killing everybody.
03:13That is how we were stuck in a hotel.
03:15Even in the hotel, we were not sure of ourselves.
03:17Because they were going from hotel to hotel, room to room,
03:19killing people that were not chanting Allaha Kabbalah.
03:22And summer, summer, God saved our souls.
03:25After about four days, we were able to leave Kaduna.
03:27But unfortunately, a friend of mine who was a pastor, Reverend Northcott Andrew of blessed memory,
03:34was caught in the midst of this as he was escaping for his life.
03:38They caught him because he was wearing a collar of a bishop.
03:41They hacked him to death.
03:43Dugged the ground.
03:44Buried him and put a cross there.
03:45It is that little wooden cross that made people know that there was a corpse in that place.
03:50And this, my friend, was buried.
03:52These are real-life situations.
03:54So for somebody to just sit down in the comfort of his soul,
03:57maybe somewhere in the south,
03:58and be saying there's no such thing in northern Nigeria,
04:00my brother, you've not been a part of it.
04:02We've been right in the heart of the fire.
04:04I remembered one night,
04:05these Muslim boys were all over the place in my school.
04:09And they were shouting Allaha Kabbalah.
04:10They were looking for me.
04:12I had to escape.
04:13That night, my saving grace was that I found a female hostel and I slept under the bed.
04:18By the next day, I left town.
04:20For what?
04:20I did nothing.
04:21No provocation.
04:23Just because I am preaching the gospel.
04:25And of course, some of them believe that once you are not of the Islamic faith,
04:30you are an infidel.
04:31You know, and they believe that if you kill an infidel,
04:34you will sleep with seven virgins.
04:37You know, all of this kind of indoctrination
04:39that leads to violence at the slightest provocation,
04:43whether it has to do with the people or not,
04:45you just get on the streets.
04:46What about the Reinhard Bonke crusade?
04:48I'm talking about the Reinhard Bonke crusade in Kano,
04:51where people were hacked, marcheted, and killed
04:55just because a crusade,
04:57where the gospel of Christ was going to be preached.
05:00And that is why I thank God for people like President Donald Trump,
05:04who lent his voice to what is going on here.
05:06At least, for whatever is what,
05:09there's an ongoing conversation all over the world.
05:11The matter is no more put under the carpet.
05:13And we don't want just conversations.
05:15We want some action.
05:16We want some action.
05:18And in the midst of all this,
05:19it snowballed into the herders and farmers clash.
05:22It snowballed into banditry.
05:24And everything becomes very complicated.
05:26Very complicated.
05:28And people are dying by the day.
05:29There are people in northern Nigeria,
05:31places like Borno State,
05:33places like Platu State,
05:34places like Benue State,
05:36places like Southern Kaduna,
05:38where whole villages have been taken over
05:41by some of these bandits,
05:42by some of these Islamic extremists,
05:45by some of these Boko Haram people.
05:47They've taken over whole villages,
05:49driven the villagers away.
05:51And somebody said,
05:51there is no such thing in Nigeria.
05:53Why do we have IDP camps?
05:55Why do we have IDP camps
05:57when we never had an earthquake?
05:59We never had an earth tremor.
06:01Why do we have IDP camps
06:03when there is no natural disaster?
06:06Other than the fact that
06:07people are being made victims
06:09of what they have no knowledge of.
06:12In a secularistic exercise.
06:14We're all...
06:15We're all...
06:15We're all...
06:15We're all...
