By Joseph Edegbo :
The General Secretary, Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, Rev. Yunusa Sabo Nmadu, has tasked those who have sworn to protect lives and property of the people to wake up to the challenge, so as to avoid the wrath of God.
He stated this on Wednesday at First ECWA Church Samaru Kataf, during the burial service of late Rev. Silas Ali killed last Saturday between Zango town and Kibori, in Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The ECWA General Secretary, while consoling the people, reminded them to join the Church in crying to God to arise and take charge of the current insecurity in the land and also appealed to the people of God not to go back to the old tradition of protecting themselves which he noted is not pleasing to God.
In a sermon, the officiating Minister, Rev. Jonathan Nkom, appealed to the bereaved to take solace in God over the demise of Rev. Ali and prayed God to expose those who gruesomely murdered him and eleven other members of his congregation.
Reading from the Holy Book of 1st Corentians chapter 9 verse 24, Rev. Nkom reminded the congregation to reflect on their lives and change their ways towards Christ, because no one knows when and how the circumstances of his death will be.
In a condolence message the National President, Atyap Community Development Association, ACDA, Samuel Timbuwak Achie, said ‘he who laugh last, laugh best’ and warned those attacking innocent and harmless people in Atyap land to stop forthwith in the interest of peace.
In a message, the CAN Chairman, Zango Kataf Local Government, who spoke through a representative, condoled the immediate family of the deceased and the entire Church of God over the unfortunate incident and prayed to God for the land to open and consume all those attacking communities in Atyap land.
Salama News reports that the lifeless body of Rev. Silas Ali which was found between Zango town and his work station in Kibori on Sunday, 11th September, 2021, with matched wounds all over, was laid to rest amidst tears from family and sympathizers who came in their hundreds to pay their last respect to the deceased.
