The NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 2nd - Sunday 8th June 2025
WHO ARE THE KILLERS IN NIGERIA?
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon (2 Sam. 12:9).
The study of Criminology identifies three elements of crime: object, motive, and opportunity. For every crime, the three elements would usually be in place. The object is the material of the crime, e.g. the item stolen or destroyed. That could be money, a car, jewelry, food, time, or land. The motive is the propelling force for the crime: the hunger or greed that led to the theft, or the jealousy for which a wife poured acid on the husband’s perceived girlfriend. Finally, opportunity refers to the enabling environment for the crime. For example, no thief would steal if they feared that they would be caught, but the carelessness of an owner or the absence of security can provide a convenient opportunity for the theft. A criminal would usually abort a plan if unsure of a clean escape.
Those three elements also have their rated scales in the execution of crime: object - 10%; motive - 10%, and opportunity - 80%. In other words, opportunity is the greatest enabler for crime. In fighting crime, therefore, criminologists give substantial attention to eliminating the opportunities or enabling environments for performing unlawful acts; that is, whatever might aid the crime to occur without the agent being apprehended. Accordingly, those who provide opportunities for crime to occur are reasonable culprits. The criminal carries 20% of the blame, but those who provided the enabling environment are 80% guiltier of the crime. That is why “criminal negligence” is a serious crime.
In the Bible verse above, whom God held responsible for the death of Uriah was David who provided the opportunity for Uriah to be killed, not the Ammonites who killed him with their sword. In effect, Uriah was not killed in battle, he was murdered by David.
In two previous prayer bulletins entitled “Jihad – the Great Betrayal” and “Re-negotiate Nigeria”, it was pointed out that the relentless serial killings of Nigerians by Fulani militia and Islamists are the consequence of the compromise, betrayal, and criminal negligence of leaders of the indigenous ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. Many Nigerians, at home and abroad, are incensed against the killer ‘herdsmen’ and Islamist insurgents. While there is some truth in holding them responsible, because they are the executioners, the true killers are those who provide the opportunities for them to operate. Until those aiders and abettors are confronted, the killings will not stop.
Some of the complicit abettors of the rivers of blood are the leaders of the negro race in Nigeria. In the prayer call of last week, it was pointed out that Nigeria is made up of two races: the negroes and the negroid. The Fulani negroid are behind the insecurity in land, due to their publicly expressed desire to turn Nigeria into a homeland for all Fulanis. To do that, the original indigenous owners of the land must be eliminated.
The conspiracy to eliminate the negro race in Nigeria is gaining grounds because of the enabling environment provided for the killers by the following three categories of negro leaders:
1. The traditional rulers of the negroes
2. The religious leaders, particularly the Christian leaders
3. The politicians representing the negroes
These three categories of leaders have consistently demonstrated an attitude reminiscent of the tribal chiefs who sold Africans into slavery in exchange for mirrors, gin, gun powder, and other shameful trinkets. It is an open secret that money from the Federation account is being pumped into these three categories of leadership. That is the reason some people keep fighting tooth and nail to have a position amongst those categories of leadership. There is money to be made. Unfortunately, it is money paid for their silence, irrespective of what is done to their people. That conspiratorial silence is the ‘opportunity’ for the bloodshed in Nigeria. So long as those leaders continue to accept their “settlement”, the killings and kidnappings will not stop.
To buttress the point above, the “constituency allowance” of legislators in both the Senate and the House of Representatives shall be highlighted. In a viral video on social media, a politician from Osun state openly affirmed at a public gathering that since Tinubu became president, the constituency allowance of members of the House of Rep has increased to N1 billion, while that for Senators is N2 billion each. Constitutionally, the job of the legislators is to make laws. The three tiers of government that handle projects are: Federal (the Executive), State, and Local Government. So, why is the responsibility of the Local Governments being transferred to legislators, and outrageously humongous public funds are given to those wrong people, to conduct projects in their constituencies? It is not the responsibility of the State to fund the campaign of legislators. When that happens, it is “settlement” for the “African tribal chief,” so that his people can be killed, and survivors are driven off their land into IDP camps, while he retains his paid silence. Such ‘settlements’ (in their many forms for many years) are the reason why legislators of the negro race would rather amend a fraudulent 1999 Constitution than respond to the demands of their people for a new constitution.
In these circumstances, what should the people do? The problem can easily be solved without a battle, a blow, or a bullet. The people must confront their leaders, or those leaders would destroy them. The greed of the negro leaders seems uncontrollable. It is the psychopathic mentality of the ancestral African tribal chief. Once he is free to live a life of indulgence and opulence, his people may perish.
Firstly, there must be an escalated demand for a new constitution for Nigeria, with an insistence from the people that the 2027 election must not be conducted under the 1999 constitution (as amended). There are two options to get a new constitution:
1) The indigenous ethnic nationalities could write a new constitution, but that could take forever, as it is sure to be sabotaged.
2) Revert to an existing constitution originally negotiated when Nigeria became a country. The 1963 Republican Constitution was negotiated by the founding fathers of Nigeria. That constitution was unilaterally suspended by the military who later gave the country the fraudulent 1999 Constitution (as amended). The 1963 Republican Constitution was not abrogated, it was “suspended” by the military. The suspension should be lifted, the number of regions increased, and other amendments progressively done to reflect current realities.
Sociology teaches two elements of leadership: 1) the person who claims or holds the leadership, and 2) the one who recognizes it. A leader is only a leader to the extent that people are willing to recognize or follow him. It is time for Nigerians to distance themselves from compromising and treacherous leaders. Accordingly, Nigerians should mobilize and boycott every political campaign, rally, or meeting convened by any politician, insisting that they will not participate in the 2027 election if it is done under the 1999 Constitution. People have the right to demand a new constitution. The demand for a new constitution is “restructuring” of Nigeria, in a sense. A new constitution will guarantee regional autonomy and allow each region to develop at its own pace, as well as arrange its internal security.
For religious leaders, Nigerians should refrain from worship with treacherous leaders who see their congregations as commodities to be sold out for their private profits. Already, transactions have started for the 2027 elections.
Traditional rulers feed on the praises and adulation of the people. Once that is cut off, they become mere men. They should be isolated until they begin to speak out vigorously in the defence of their people. They should stop selling land to those who are killing their people. The profiteering agents of our killers will not stop until they are compelled to stop.
Nigerians are not weak, but they have been betrayed by leaders who collude with killers after receiving bribes. If the twin problems of corruption and insecurity are to be solved, Nigerians must confront their indigenous leaders, especially church leaders who not only offer physical support to the jihadist killers but also give them spiritual legitimacy. It is such spiritual endorsements conferred upon Islamists by some wicked and treacherous church leaders that enable them to remain in power. Those church leaders are not unknown. If they are not confronted, they will not stop. They are the actual killers of Nigerians.
May God bless Nigeria.
PRAYER POINTS
1) Isaiah 21:1-2
Raise a lamentation to God against the treachery of the leaders who betray Nigerians because of their greed. Pray that heaven shall release judgment upon such leaders in the land.
2) Isaiah 13:9
Pray that righteous indignation shall break out all over the country against self-seeking and self-serving leaders who pretend to serve the people but only pursue selfish personal interest.
3) Rom. 1:18-19
Pray that the wrath of God shall break out upon Christian leaders who support unrighteous and corrupt people in Nigeria because they receive a reward for doing so.
4) Gal. 6:7
Pray that all the Christian leaders who willfully supported the Islamists shall be visited by all the evils the Islamists unleashed upon Nigerian Christians.
5) 1 Kg. 12:1-4
Pray that God shall grant grace for Nigerians to unite and confront all the leaders in the land whose acts of betrayal have led to the bloodshed, kidnappings, and sufferings in the land.
6) Ps. 110:5-6
Pray that all the criminally negligent leaders in Nigeria shall partake of the judgment of heaven upon the murderous jihadists.
7) Ps. 22:28
Pray that Christ shall intervene in the matter of Nigeria and give the country a new constitution that shall guarantee peace and progress to the land.
AMEN
