So this morning, we woke up to find the Man of God trending on twitter..and now we know why!
The Senior Pastor of the Latter Rain Gospel Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare
yesterday in Abuja, amid tears, chided the Federal Government for doing
so little to rescue the 219 Chibok girls abducted two years ago.
yesterday in Abuja at a special sit-out of the #BringBackOurGirls, BBOG.
Pastor Bakare berated past and present administrations in the country
for their failure to rescue the girls saying;
“The whole nation has failed these children.“Parents, families and
friends of our dear daughters, I am here today not just to speak to you,
but to speak to the nation and to the world as one of you.
I’m here as a father burdened by the captivity of our daughters, and I
am here as a friend. I am here to express our frustrations and to speak
of our undying hope as we wait expectantly for the return of our dear
Chibok girls. “We are not unmindful that the Nigerian state failed to
provide security for our daughters as they gathered to write final
examinations despite prior intelligence reports that suggested they were
in danger.
“It is most severely injurious to see that the fate of our daughters has
been frequently politicized. Rather than rise to the occasion as
stakeholders and custodians of the security and welfare of the citizens
of this nation, political parties and politicians have paid lip service,
using our pain and plight of our daughters to score cheap political
points. ‘
’We are not convinced that the matter of our daughters has been given
the needed thoughtfulness. “We do not believe that those who are in a
position to act have taken sufficient actions towards addressing the
issue or even towards claiming our anxiety as waiting parents.”
According to him, the girls would have been rescued if they were
children of politicians and renowned pastors. The sit out marked 712
days since the girls have been kidnapped and part of BBOG Global Week of
Action to mark the two years anniversary of the abduction. He said that
those responsible for the rescue of the girls have not taken sufficient
actions in the last two years that the girls have been abducted.
“We do not believe those concerned have taken sufficient actions
concerning the rescue of these girls”, he said, expressing optimism that
the girls would be rescued even as he prayed God to see to that. “We
believe that they are still alive, at least no evidence, satellite
evidence that they are in a mass grave. We believe they are alive. It
remains a scar on the soul of this nation until these girls are brought
back,” he said.