PRESS STATEMENT

The Silence Of A Complicit Government; The Blood Of The Saints Cries Louder!

By Rev. Emmanuel Boachie
(Kumasi – Ghana)

THE NIGERIAN SOUL IS BLEEDING

For over a decade, the soil of Nigeria has been soaked with the blood of its Christian citizens — slaughtered, burned, and displaced by a network of jihadist militants operating with unnerving impunity. What began as sporadic insurgency has evolved into a calculated campaign of extermination; a genocide in every moral, historical, and legal sense of the word.

The victims are not casualties of war. They are targets of faith: farmers, priests, schoolchildren, and families who bear the cross of Christ in the wrong geography of their own homeland.
From Benue to Southern Kaduna, from Plateau to Taraba, the pattern is unmistakable: annihilate the Christian presence, seize their lands, rename their villages, and rewrite their history.

And while the blood flows, the government sits in deliberate stillness; its silence is louder than the gunfire.

WHEN THE STATE IS SILENT, IT CONSENTS

It was the late General Sani Abacha who once declared, “Any government that can not crush evil is itself a culprit.”
That timeless warning now returns as prophecy fulfilled.

Today’s Nigerian leadership has failed not merely in policy but in morality. President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, by his chilling silence and selective sympathy, has become the mirror of the evil he refuses to confront.

His apathy toward the Christian genocide in the Middle Belt is not administrative negligence; it is religious complicity. His government’s reluctance to name the perpetrators or protect the victims betrays a deep-seated sectarian loyalty that stains the very oath of his presidency.

When Christians are butchered, the nation’s conscience sleeps.
But when extremists are confronted, the government suddenly finds its voice; pleading for “restraint” and “understanding.”

This is not neutrality; it is bias dressed in the robes of governance.

THE BLASPHEMY OF COMPROMISE

It is a matter of grave concern that individuals like Dr. Zakir Naik; a preacher banned from the United Kingdom, Canada, and several nations for inciting religious hatred and promoting jihadist ideology; now stand comfortably with senior Nigerian military officers, welcomed as a “scholar” and friend.

When the guardians of a nation clasp hands with the enemies of liberty, the altar of justice collapses.
Nigeria’s military and intelligence services are fast becoming instruments not of national defence but of religious bias and ethnic cleansing.

Such fellowship with darkness exposes the rot at the heart of the state; a state that shelters extremists while persecuting truth-tellers, a government that honours foreign radicals yet abandons its own people to slaughter.

THE WESTERN HYPOCRISY

It is appalling that much of the Western media and diplomatic community have remained criminally silent.
They have the energy to vilify Donald Trump for his rhetoric, but none to expose the rivers of Christian blood flowing in Nigeria’s heartlands.

If you kill a Christian in Africa, it is a local matter.
But if you defend one, you are branded intolerant.

Such hypocrisy mocks the very ideals of human rights and exposes the colonial arrogance of selective compassion.
The value of a life is not determined by geography or religion.
If the Christian is not safe in Nigeria, then democracy itself is in danger across Africa.

THE MORAL VERDICT

The Nigerian state stands on trial; not before international courts, but before the tribunal of conscience and history.
Every drop of innocent blood will bear witness that the government knew, could have acted, and chose instead to protect its political alliances and religious affiliations.

When a nation permits evil, it becomes evil.
When the President excuses injustice, he becomes its accomplice.

President Tinubu’s silence has become a sermon; a sermon of betrayal against the very citizens whose constitution he swore to defend.

THE CALL TO CHRISTIANS: SPEAK UP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

Christians must speak up.
It was the silent pulpits in Germany that permitted Adolf Hitler to massacre the Jews; and after that, the silent churches were not spared.
If the church fails to speak, both its shepherds and its flock will be swallowed by the very evil they ignore.

The silence of Nigerian pastors, bishops, and Christian intellectuals today is history repeating itself in another form.
A silent pulpit is a partner to persecution.
Evil thrives when the righteous retreat into comfort.

If you fail to act now, you and your family will not be spared when tyranny matures into terror.
Prophetic silence is betrayal; moral neutrality is death.

OUR DEMANDS

1. Official recognition of the systematic extermination of Christians in Nigeria as religious genocide.

2. Immediate prosecution of all known perpetrators and their sponsors, regardless of religious or ethnic ties.

3. Condemnation and expulsion of all foreign extremists, including Zakir Naik and others who propagate hate.

4. Comprehensive protection of Christian and indigenous minority communities through equal security representation.

5. Restoration of ancestral lands to displaced Christian families, with international oversight to ensure justice.

THE FINAL WARNING

The blood of the saints is not silent.
It cries louder than the politics of compromise and louder than the lies of diplomacy.
A nation that kills its prophets and neglects its righteous will one day drink the cup of its own violence.

“When the righteous are silent, blood cries louder.”
And Heaven will answer.

Issued by:
Rev. Emmanuel Boachie
President, Centre for Biblical-Historical Christianity Defence
Country Director, Awesome Bible College
Head Pastor, Souls’ Pasture Church, Kumasi – Ghana
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