Pastor David Ibiyeomie, the senior pastor and founder of Salvation Ministry has admonished Nigerians, particularly those in the Northern part of the country to defend themselves against terrorist attacks.
Speaking during a sermon on Thursday, July 7, at the church’s headquarters, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the clergyman urged those in terrorist-sieged areas to buy arm for self-defense.
According to him, until residents begin to defend themselves, there would be no peace in the frequently attacked areas.
The cleric said;
All of you in the North hear me: don’t do that Christianity; you too carry your walking stick. Buy walking stick and be walking with walking stick.
All of you in the North, brothers and sisters, get good walking stick so that when you walk, the walking stick can support you.
Pastor Ibiyeomie continued;
All of you in Kaduna hear me: get good walking stick so that it can support you when you are moving. They are not the only ones who know where to buy walking stick.
If they shoot you too shoot, if they fire you fire.
Then there will be peace. Defend yourself.
Earlier, Federal Government through the Nigerian Correctional Service on Thursday, July 7, disclosed the upload and circulation of data pertaining to 60 terrorists and other criminals to the International Criminal Police Organisation database.
The terrorists and the other criminals were among those who escaped when a terrorist group, the Islamic State of West African Province , bombed the Kuje Correctional Centre on Tuesday night.
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Umar Abubakar, the Spokesman, Nigeria Correctional Service, disclosed that the names, pictures and other data of the inmates have been circulated to other security agencies.
When asked if the Correctional Service has dispatched the data of the terrorists to Interpol, Abubakar said;
They are working on it; the ones they uploaded are not too clear to my liking and the management’s liking. Hopefully, they should be through tonight.
Yes, we have access to the (Interpol) database. Every inmate or suspect that is brought to our facility, we photograph him and have the details about him before it goes to our database.
They are trying to upload it and work on it so we can have the details of the offences committed and have the next-of-kin and take appropriate actions.
