Date Published: 02/25/10

Dear Editor,

Prayer against Kidnappings: Thanks to A'Ibom women

When I saw them (the Akwa Ibom mothers) in the newspaper, all in black attires, I was moved. I was moved because inside me, I felt at least most of them that gathered sincerely were for sober reflection and call on God Almighty to deal with those behind the devastating crime that is right now plaguing the State.

With their sincere prayers, it is my belief that God would visit anyone who remotely or closely sponsored or took part in any crime that is inimical to the people of the State, no matter where they would be. Unless they were gathered in prayer to the wood or that they were sponsored to do such prayers then would answer not come for them. They should search their consciences very well. I do not think that there was any need for allowing their photographs to be so advertised in the media the way one saw it. What for?

We all know about the biblical statement that when you want to pray you do so in your closet and the all-seeing and all-knowing God Almighty would answer you. Again there is another that says that you need not take God’s glory when He answers your prayer; you need not say “because I have prayed, relief has been gotten in the land”. Therefore if what I saw in the media that looked like paid pictorial advertisements; if any money was used to secure such, then the participants have fallen prey and disobeyed the biblical notations. The occasion was enough to generate pictorial news item, unsolicited; it was no social gathering.

Dr. Julius Madaki

3, Seriki Close

Bauchi