The Supreme Council of Bishops, also known as World Council of Bishops, has written President Muhammadu Buhari, pleading for pardon for five young men sentenced to death by a court in Adamawa for the killing of a herdsman.

A Yola High Court had on June 11, 2018 sentenced the five men from Kodomun in Demsa council area of the state to death by hanging for murdering a herder in retaliation to the several killings in the area.In the letter, the bishops noted that Nigeria “has suffered untold bloodshed from killings, maiming, traumatisation of innocent citizens around the north eastern, north central and Middle Belt states, as a result of the frequent attacks by the militia herdsmen times without number.”

The correspondence, titled, “Special request for presidential pardon: Killing by hanging of five young men,” was signed by founding Primate, Abuja, Nigeria, Archbishop (Dr.) P. Sunday; Ecclesiastical Prelate Administrator, Houston, Texas, United State, Archbishop (Dr.) H. Parker; Apostolic Nuncio and Prelate to Africa, Lagos, Nigeria, Bishop (Dr.) J. Onyegbulem; and Ecclesiastical Prelate to West Africa, Niamey, Niger Republic, Bishop (Dr.) J. Hussein.

The clerics regretted that “till date no adequate justice had been meted out on them commensurate to the lives and property lost.” It therefore “totally condemns and disapproves vehemently the death sentence passed on the five young men on Monday, June 11, 2018 by a court of competent jurisdiction in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria accused and charged for killing a herdsman.”

The letter, dated June 13, 2018 from the World Episcopal Headquarters in Texas, U.S., was routed through the Africa Episcopal Headquarters, Lagos and copied the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo; Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Chief Justice of the Federation, Walter Samuel Onnoghen; Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha; as well as Governor Mohammed Jibrilla and the state’s Attorney General, Silas Bala Sanga.

The bishops added “what our nation Nigeria sues for now in our nascent democracy is peace and tranquility, and not otherwise.” In a related development, Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina has assured the over 3,500 Zamfara’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the state of continued assistance till it is safe for them to return home.

He gave the assurance on Sunday evening during a visit to the IDP camp in Dansabau village, Kankara Local Council of the state.The refugees had fled their communities following reported cases of killings and other atrocities by suspected rustlers.

https://candytv.com.ng/2018/06/19/bishops-seek-presidential-pardon-for-adamawa-herdsmans-condemned-killers/

He may want to play the nice guy

We should be talking about apprehending the Fulani herdsmen that killed two Catholic priests and their parishioners in Benue....

Weeks are turning into months and the case is gradually getting cold.... What a government and country...
And you tell me such will not repeat itself tomorrow...

zombieHUNTER:
We should be talking about apprehending the Fulani herdsmen that killed two Catholic priests and their parishioners in Benue....

Weeks are turning into months and the case is gradually getting cold.... What a government and country...
And you tell me such will not repeat itself tomorrow...

The criminals that killed the priests have been caught and are being processed for trial, and assuredly they are not Fulani but Tivs, this was in the news a week or two ago.
As for the bishops' request it smacks of politics and religious bigotry, what? With them condemning the laws according to the constitution. It would have been saner for the devil himself to plead transmutation of death to life Imprisonment.

Scheming bishops.

tunjiajayi:


The criminals that killed the priests have been caught and are being processed for trial, and assuredly they are not Fulani but Tivs, this was in the news a week or two ago.
As for the bishops' request it smacks of politics and religious bigotry, what? With them condemning the laws according to the constitution. It would have been saner for the devil himself to plead transmutation of death to life Imprisonment.

Scheming bishops.

I must have missed the news
Please show us..... My Yoruba Muslim friend

zombieHUNTER:


I must have missed the news
Please show us..... My Yoruba Muslim friend

Listen!
You should get objective.
I am not your "Yoruba Muslim friend"
I would oblige you with a sourced reference to the news in a bit just so you get informed.

Here - Benue: Court Remands Suspected Killers Of Priests, Others, As Trial Begins
https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.icirnigeria.org/court-remands-six-suspects-over-murder-of-two-catholic-priests-in-benue/&ved=2ahUKEwiD9LbZj9_bAhVJvxQKHZJgBTY4ChAWMAd6BAgFEAE&usg=AOvVaw0vzhzwTRjk8Q8rRk1iECOo

tunjiajayi:


The criminals that killed the priests have been caught and are being processed for trial, and assuredly they are not Fulani but Tivs, this was in the news a week or two ago.
As for the bishops' request it smacks of politics and religious bigotry, what? With them condemning the laws according to the constitution. It would have been saner for the devil himself to plead transmutation of death to life Imprisonment.

Scheming bishops.

You Should Go Back To Your Lying School, You Are Really Half Baked. When You Want To Lie And Seal You Conscience, Do It Perfectly. Tivs Killed The Priests And Members Because Of What? Useful Idiot

BeingFrank:
You Should Go Back To Your Lying School, You Are Really Half Baked. When You Want To Lie And Seal You Conscience, Do It Perfectly. Tivs Killed The Priests And Members Because Of What? Useful Idiot

I would ignore your invectives, as I believe it is due to ignorance. The crisis in the middle is not what you make of it, the age old running feud between the Tivs, jukun, Fulani as been politicised, by selfish ethnic and religious bigots.

As to the why? It is a matter of giving a dog a bad name to hang it. The crisis is real, lives are being lost but the motive and the elements behind these crises are more sinister than you can imagine.

For your info please read.

https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.icirnigeria.org/court-remands-six-suspects-over-murder-of-two-catholic-priests-in-benue/&ved=2ahUKEwiD9LbZj9_bAhVJvxQKHZJgBTY4ChAWMAd6BAgFEAE&usg=AOvVaw0vzhzwTRjk8Q8rRk1iECOo

tunjiajayi:


Listen!
You should get objective.
I am not your "Yoruba Muslim friend"
I would oblige you with a sourced reference to the news in a bit just so you get informed.

Here - Benue: Court Remands Suspected Killers Of Priests, Others, As Trial Begins
https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.icirnigeria.org/court-remands-six-suspects-over-murder-of-two-catholic-priests-in-benue/&ved=2ahUKEwiD9LbZj9_bAhVJvxQKHZJgBTY4ChAWMAd6BAgFEAE&usg=AOvVaw0vzhzwTRjk8Q8rRk1iECOo

Come on, the leader is Fulani, isn't he

Quidquopro:


Come on, the leader is Fulani, isn't he

Maybe so, but he was working for Orton as head of livestock guards, even if he is fulani, the rest by their names are Benue ( Tivs) this shows the dark scheming on going in the middle belt, doesn't it.

Let's not get sentimental.
All perpetrators of absurd in the middle belt are criminals with evil intent and motive propelled by politicised ethnic and religious bigotry.

tunjiajayi:


Maybe so, but he was working for Orton as head of livestock guards, even if he is fulani, the rest by their names are Benue ( Tivs) this shows the dark scheming on going in the middle belt, doesn't it.

Let's not get sentimental.
All perpetrators of absurd in the middle belt are criminals with evil intent and motive propelled by politicised ethnic and religious bigotry.

Forget. No sane Tiv man will shoot his tribesmen.

tunjiajayi:


I would ignore your invectives, as I believe it is due to ignorance. The crisis in the middle is not what you make of it, the age old running feud between the Tivs, jukun, Fulani as been politicised, by selfish ethnic and religious bigots.

As to the why? It is a matter of giving a dog a bad name to hang it. The crisis is real, lives are being lost but the motive and the elements behind these crises are more sinister than you can imagine.

For your info please read.

https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.icirnigeria.org/court-remands-six-suspects-over-murder-of-two-catholic-priests-in-benue/&ved=2ahUKEwiD9LbZj9_bAhVJvxQKHZJgBTY4ChAWMAd6BAgFEAE&usg=AOvVaw0vzhzwTRjk8Q8rRk1iECOo

Away With Your Unverified News, How Does It Add Up? Framing Those Trying To Protect Their State Up? I'm Not Without A Brain.

Quidquopro:


Forget. No sane Tiv man will shoot his tribesmen.

What are you saying, blood brothers even, fathers and sons even.
You think criminal reckon tribe, religion or family?

BeingFrank:
Away With Your Unverified News, How Does It Add Up? Framing Those Trying To Protect Their State Up? I'm Not Without A Brain.

That's the whole purpose, it's not supposed to add up, that's the scheming!
I would oblige you with more info on this, if you please.