A concerned Nigerian citizen, Mr. Okolie Tagbo Cajetan, has decried the hypocrisy exhibited by Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode over the trending issue involving Christian Genocide in Nigeria.
Mr. Okolie made the remarks following the recent post by Mr. Fani-Kayode after some authorities in the United States of America spoke out on the raging topic.
Some of the outspoken authorities on the Christian Genocide in Nigeria saga include Senator Ted Cruz, Rep. Riley Moore, Rep. Chris Smith, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Mayor Mike Arnold, and a host of others.
“Warning to Sen. Ted Cruz and His Cabal”
In a post entitled “A Warning to Sen. Ted Cruz and His Cabal of Yankee Crusaders“, Fani-Kayode casted aspersions against Ted Cruz, Riley Moore, Chris Smith and Secretary of State, Rubio.
He used unspeakable words of contempt to describe them for volunteering to save the Christian population in Nigeria.
He said: “The charge of “Christian genocide” and that Nigeria is “the most dangerous place in the world for Christians to live” seems hardly sustainable.
“As a matter of fact it sounds utterly absurd.”
Fani-Kayode recalled that “it was only on one occassion that the Nigerian Army targetted and killed over 1000 Nigerians in one day because they blocked a road and on account of their faith and the victims were not Christians but rather Shia Muslims and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN).
“This terrible incident occurred in Zaria, Kaduna state in December 2015, eight years before the inception of the Tinubu administration and under the watch of the previous Chief of Army Staff Gen. Tukur Buratai.”
He, however, admitted that Christians have been targeted and massacred in Nigeria over the years.
He stated: “A chilling and horrendous example is the massacre of Christians in four local Government areas in Southern Kaduna on Dec. 25th, 2016, in which no less than 808 Christians were targetted and killed in one day.”
He, meanwhile, asserted that those massacres were perpetuated by non-state actors and savage ethnic militias, not by Nigerian military.
“Secondly the same group committed similar atrocities against Muslim communities too,” he insisted.
“Genocide against us all”
On October 12, Fani-Kayode noted in another a piece entitled “The Christian Genocide Battle Cry and The Blackwater Connection“:
“I repeat for the purpose of emphasis that what we are witnessing in Nigeria is not a genocide against Muslims or a genocide against Christians but a genocide against us all.
“To couch or describe it in any other way as a consequence of ignorance or mischief is most unhelpful and darn-right dangerous and could ignite a full-scale religious war the likes of which the world has never witnessed.”
“Politically… tribally… ethnically motivated”
Reacting to Fani-Kayode’s tirades, Okolie condemned his recent stand on killing of Christians.
He described the post “as politically motivated, tribally motivated and ethnically motivated”.
He urged his audience: “Now, therefore, because internet doesn’t lie, read his former stand on the issues before his tribal man becomes the president of Nigeria, where he has been resoundingly favored, through his numerous corruption cases, which he is free now, and waiting for Ambassadorial appointment.”
Timeline of Fani-Kayode’s “genocide” outcries
Fani-Kayode wrote on his handle @realFFK on June 18, 2018:
“The jihadists who killed the RCCG Evangelist for preaching in Abuja were set free.
“The ones who killed Bridget, the Deeper Life Pastor’s wife in Kano were set free.
“No Fulani terrorist has been reprimanded or jailed for killing more than 5,300 Christians in 2018 alone…”
Upon further investigation, Diaspora Digital Media (DDM) discovered several other tweets by the former Aviation Minister, who arrested and detained for multiple cases of corruption:
“It amazes me how @CNN, @cnni, @BBCWorld, @AJENews and @AJEnglish constantly complain and report about the slaughter of Muslims by Hindus in India but hardly ever complain and report about the mass murder of Christians by Islamist terrorists and jihadists in Nigeria.”
He added: “The int. media have a moral obligation to expose evil & injustice WHEREVER it is found. This is all the more so when GENOCIDE is involved. It has nothing to do with electoral choices: it is about our collective humanity & our duty to protect the weak, the persecuted & the poor.”
“Well-established fact”
On December 27, 2019, Fani-Kayode, in a long epistle, reprimanded the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, over a statement credited to him wherein he said: “It is a lie to say Christians are being persecuted in Nigeria.” He wrote:
“You are wrong and your denial of this “WELL-ESTABLISHED FACT” (italics ours) which is backed by empirical, abundant and overwhelming evidence is deeply offensive to the Christian community.
“Were the 800 Christians that were slaughtered in their homes in [Southern] Kaduna on Christmas eve and Christmas day in 2016 by Fulani militants whilst the authorities turned a blind eye and refused to protect them or bring their murderers to justice not entitled to live their lives?
“Are you trying to suggest that this was an isolated event and that it does not occur regularly in the north?
“What about the hundreds of thousands of Christians that have been butchered all over the Middle Belt over the last four years, talk less of those that have been targetted and killed in the south by the same Fulani militants?
“All this, yet the Federal Government fails to act, and Royal fathers like you, who should know better, attempt to deny that it is real and try [to] downplay the whole issue.
“This is unacceptable.
“In some countries it is actually a criminal offence to deny that genocide has taken place when the evidence is to the contrary.
“To say that Christian’s are being persecuted in some parts of Nigeria is actually an understatement.
“They are not just being persecuted, they are being totally and completely eradicated and wiped out.
“They are being subjected to mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide!
“This can no longer be denied or hidden because the world has become a global village.
“The barbarity and cruelty of those that hate Christians in Nigeria are being exposed to the international community every day and flippant and insensitive denials of the obvious cannot stop that.
Christians react
Christians in Nigeria have continued to express shock at how Fani-Kayode and Reno Omokri, suddenly swallowed their own vomits.
These have, in recent past, declared themselves champions of the Christian faith, and liberators of the oppressed.
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