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By Danjuma Attah, Gombe
The youth wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern States and Abuja have carpeted President Muhammadu Buhari for allowing the current fuel scarcity during this Yuletide season to linger all through the Christmas festive period.
Speaking through its chairman in Gombe, Evangelist Musa Misal, the youth wing of CAN said the Buhari administration has deliberately sustained the fuel scarcity to persecute the Christians into abandoning their faith through the harsh realities during this very important period for all Christians.
According to Evangelist Misal, this is one of President Buhari’s Islamization agenda purposely created to make Nigerian Christians abandon their faith for Islam when it becomes difficult to celebrate Christmas through free movement within and into the country.
In his words, “Just of recent (early December), we heard that there was a shortage of petrol. The Minister for Petroleum and the GMD of NNPC came out to say that there is enough fuel to last for December and even up to February 2018 and we wonder why this is happening now.
“Why should this thing be happening always in December? Is it because Christian brothers are celebrating their Christmas during December?”
He cited an example saying, “We have our brothers from different parts of the world coming home to celebrate Christmas, when they arrive Nigeria, they find it very difficult for local running because of the fuel crises and we ask, who is fooling who between the President, the minister of petroleum and the NNPC GMD? We want to know who has the responsibility to tackle the situation and why it is always happening during Christmas season.”
He said, “we have many festivals in this country within the year like Sallah, Easter and the rest, but the crises always occur during Christmas and we the Christian youth see it as a way of bringing suffering to the Christian community or to Islamize the Christians during Christmas period or another form of jihad.
“There is a form of Jihad that when persecution comes and we are pushed to the wall, some Christians may not be able to bear it. They may say this suffering at Christmas is too much and they (‘some’, with emphasis) will deny Christ.”
He said the issues CAN (youth wing) in the North have with Mr. President is that, “he is the president of the country and the minister of petroleum, he has every right to control this fuel crises”, adding that ever since the announcement was made, marketers have continued to hoard the product.
“We are not going to accept this and when we are pushed to the world, we are going out to demonstrate peacefully on the streets to say that we are not happy with what is happening.”
When asked if Ibe Kachukwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum, a Christian, could also be culpable in their allegations, Evangelist Misal has this to say, “Ibe Kachukwu is more of a remote control, he can do little or nothing, except what he is asked to do by his boss. Remember recently when he busted that billions of money not being accounted for by NNPC? Till today nobody has said anything about it, no investigation. In fact, the federal government said it is a lie. So there is a big gap between Kachukwu and the GMD of NNPC.”
He said President Buhari just doesn’t have the will to stop the scarcity because, as the president, he has all it takes to summon Kachukwu and GMD of NNPC over the matter.
“Let the President call them to order so that this nonsense could stop,” he stated.
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