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Murder of Catholic Seminarian: Archbishop Martins Decries Killing-Says Nigeria is Drifting Towards Anarchy
Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos ^ | 2/3/20

Posted on 02/05/2020 6:09:38 PM PST by marshmallow

The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev Alfred Adewale Martins has condemned in very strong terms, the recent killing of Michael Nnadi, an eighteen-year-old seminarian abducted alongside three other seminarians of The Good Shepherd Major Seminary, Kaduna by gun men recently.

In a release signed by the Director of Social Communications, Rev Fr. Anthony Godonu, he said the gruesome murder of the innocent young man was yet another indication of the failure of the present security arrangement of the Federal Government to address insecurity in the nation.

He warned that the persistent cases of inability of the FG to safeguard the lives of innocent Nigerians was capable of breeding a state of anarchy in the land as the people cannot just fold their hands and watch themselves slaughtered like animals.

Archbishop Martins said it was time the President took another look at the present security structures in the land and rejig them before the masses began to take the law into their own hands.

“I received with great sadness the news of the murder of the fourth seminarian, Mr. Michael Nnadi who was kidnapped recently in Kaduna. This was a young man who abandoned all with the desire to serve His creator and humanity, now murdered for no just cause. This is just one of several cases of innocent Nigerians being killed on daily basis by gun men while our security services and their chiefs watch as if they were helpless. Only recently we had the case of the CAN Chairman in Adamawa State who was executed and before that the murder of eleven innocent people by so-called ISWAP and the execution of the two students returning to their studies in Maiduguri. We have also had situations of suicide bombers going into mosques to murder people who had simply.......

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1 posted on 02/05/2020 6:09:38 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
This is the 18-year-old Catholic seminarian, Michael Nnadi, who was murdered by the Islamists.


2 posted on 02/05/2020 7:08:06 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Nevertheless, I live: yet not 'I', but Christ lives in me.")
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To: marshmallow; Al Hitan; Coleus; DuncanWaring; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; JoeFromSidney; kalee; ...

Ping


3 posted on 02/05/2020 7:15:33 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: marshmallow

We need to contact the quite lapsed, but Catholic First Lady. I’ve lately thought of her, even of her parents, perhaps willing to appeal for this AB, to POTUS who has been on overload, in a continuing political death battle for America.

So sorry for this archbishop.


4 posted on 02/05/2020 7:23:00 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Publik Skules and Academia = Farm Team for More Marxists coming, Infinitum.)
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To: RitaOK

Arm everyone Shoot first. The only way to deal with Islamists


5 posted on 02/05/2020 7:50:42 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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