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2023 Presidency: NSCEA makes demands and give conditions
The Christian community has so much been marginalized, suffered, victimised and persecuted in the past eight years by the current Muhammadu Buhari APC-led administration in Nigeria.
Nigerian Supreme Council for Ecclesiastical Affairs (NSCEA) barely 20 days to 2023 Presidential election, in a Press Release on what the Christian community would expect from the incoming President; Bishop Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, Secretary, Elder’s Council, NSCEA presented a list of fifteen (15) core and basic reality points in summary from an comprehensive list, for the INCOMING PRESIDENT for the Christian community.
NSCEA makes DEMANDS and give CONDITIONS of some of their demands that would make the incoming President hit the ground running.
1. To protect Christians from being persecuted and slaughtered.
2. To remove Nigeria from Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC), Saudi-led Islamic Coalition against Terrorism and other Islamic associations as a secular state.
3. To completely stop and put an end Fulanization and Islamisation in Nigeria.
4. To reconfigure’ Buhari’s lopsided appointment for Fulani Northern Muslims.
5. To spread appointments given between the North Muslims and the South Christians evenly for inclusion.
6. To enforce state policing as being agitated for by Nigerians.
7. To review the items on exclusive list on the constitution towards autonomy of the states.
8. To provide jobs for the teeming educated southern Christian youths like their Muslim counterparts.
9. To return the Christian missionaries schools to the owners in the 36 states of the country.
10. To return to status quo ante the dressing of students in schools and civil servants – Not dressing in hijab.
11.To stop the policy of Church paying tax i.e, Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020 as it applies to churches.
12. To go back to Regionalisation governance towards a restructuring agenda. 13. To stop kidnapping and forceful marriage of Christian girls in Northern Nigeria with penalty to perpetrators.
14. To fulfill the 35 percent affirmative action of millennium goal for the women, with the Christian women’s 50% inclusion.
15. To give Nigeria a new balanced secular state constitution.
The Christian community has so much been marginalized, suffered, victimised and persecuted in the past eight years by the current Muhammadu Buhari APC-led administration in Nigeria.
Bishop Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies
Secretary, Elder’s Council
Nigerian Supreme Council for Ecclesiastical Affairs (NSCEA).
