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The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has strongly condemned the Federal Government’s handling of the country’s worsening security crisis.
The religious body accused the political elite of lacking the firm political will to crush terrorism and choosing instead to focus on winning elections.
The position of the PFN was contained in a national address by its National President, Bishop Wale Oke.
The speech was delivered by the PFN Bauchi State Chairman, Rev. Promise Nuhu Yohanna, on Sunday at the Living Church in Yelwa, Bauchi, to mark the conclusion of a three-day national fasting and prayer session.
The PFN raised an alarm over the safety of frontline troops. The body stated that Nigeria’s security architecture has been deeply compromised by internal actors.
“We are burdened because our valiant Generals and their gallant soldiers are being killed like chickens because our security system has been infiltrated and fatally compromised,” Bishop Oke stated.
The fellowship strongly rejected the state policy of rehabilitating former terrorists.
They noted that integrating “repentant” Boko Haram killers into the national security network represents a dangerous normalization of violence.
The statement detailed a grim timeline of unchecked violence across Nigeria, pointing out that daily killings and mass abductions have now spread to virtually every geopolitical zone.
It stated that Oyo State is identified as the latest flashpoint, where teachers and students were recently abducted, resulting in the fatal shooting of one victim and the gruesome beheading of a teacher, Mr Michael Oyedokun.
According to PFN, in Kwara State, multiple rural communities have been completely sacked and displaced by heavily armed bandits, describing North-Central & Northwest states such as Taraba, Plateau, Benue, and Southern Kaduna as “daily killing fields,” alongside ongoing atrocities in Borno, Niger, Sokoto, and Kaduna states.
The PFN also lamented that historical victims like Leah Sharibu and remaining Chibok schoolgirls remain in captivity years later with no decisive rescue action from the state, while the killers of student Deborah Samuel in Sokoto remain unpunished.
It warned that the ongoing terror is actively fracturing national unity, driving out the country’s best minds, and scaring away foreign investments.
To arrest the drift into total anarchy, the PFN urged the federal government to fulfill its primary constitutional duty to protect all citizens equally, regardless of tribe or religion, and urgently seek security partnerships with the international community before it is too late.
It also called on the political class to shift focus away from desperate electioneering and deploy the full weight of federal might to eliminate killers
PFN further called on the church to break its silence, speak with a unified voice against oppression, and stand together to defend the faith and local communities.
“We speak because silence aids the killer and their sponsors,” the statement concluded, adding that the blood of innocent Nigerians demands immediate, effective action rather than empty government promises,” it stated.
