There comes a moment in the annals of civilization when silence transfigures into complicity and neutrality metamorphoses into betrayal. Nigeria has arrived at that fatal intersection — a nation once lauded as the Giant of Africa, now gasping beneath the suffocating weight of jihadist savagery, systemic indifference, and political rot.
America — that imperial sentinel of liberty — is not advancing to wage war against Nigeria. Rather, it is descending as a surgeon upon a festering wound: to rescue a people abandoned by their custodians, to recalibrate a collapsing moral compass, and to reintroduce the peripatetic discipline of justice through the precision of scientific weaponry.
Archbishop Primate Dr. Olabode Daniel’s recent prophetic proclamation;
…I PROPHETICALLY DECREED AND DECLARED UPON YOUR PRESCIOUS LIFE TODAY THAT, _YOU AND YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS SHALL NOT BE A VICTIM OF THE HORRENDOUS ISLAMIC FULANI JIHADISTS AND THE HEARTLESS FULANI TERRORISTS
AND THE MERCILESS CRIMINAL KIDDNAPERS IN LIFE IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS CHRIST AMEN
The above may thunder in ecclesiastical diction, yet within the Arch Bishops’ recent writeup which carries spiritual fervor lies a geopolitical urgency: the United States does not seek to violate Nigeria’s sovereignty — it seeks to salvage Nigeria’s humanity. But lets not forget there is no free dinner anywhere in the world.
Moreover a decade, northern Nigeria has transmuted into an infernal amphitheater of bloodletting — sanctuaries desecrated, schools incinerated, priests abducted, and entire communities effaced beneath the pretext of pastoralism. The Fulani jihadists have defiled the soil of peace, transforming verdant plains into necropolises of broken destinies. Even the wind now carries the scent of fear, and children internalize the dialect of gunfire long before the cadence of their national anthem.
Yet, the tragedy is not merely in the carnage — it is in the inertia of those enthroned to protect. The Nigerian political class has perfected what moral philosophers term ethical anesthesia: a narcotized indifference to human agony. They convene peace symposiums abroad, yet at home, their citizens construct coffins out of silence.
Thus, America’s intervention must not be misconstrued as imperial incursion; it is an act of ethical restitution — a clarion assertion that humanity still possesses a collective conscience. When the world’s preeminent democracy intervenes, it sends tremors through the architecture of terror and signals to despots that the blood of innocents still reverberates in the tribunal of global morality.
The United States will not unleash bullets alone — it will unleash accountability. It will not merely strike insurgents — it will resurrect the idea of responsibility. Yet salvation imported must converge with sincerity indigenous. America may wield technological weaponry, but it cannot exorcise Nigeria’s chronic hypocrisy — a nation where complicity masquerades as diplomacy and corruption is canonized as competence.
Archbishop Daniel’s declaration — that the horrendous jihadists will be mesmerized — must not be dismissed as ecclesiastical hyperbole. It portends a continental awakening: a rising civic consciousness that will render the architecture of terror obsolete. When collective conscience eclipses fear, tyranny withers in the glare of illumination.
Nigeria bleeds, yet her blood may still birth a renaissance. Pain has always been the prelude to prophecy. Perhaps America’s moral resurgence will serve as both mirror and medicine — a mirror reflecting our corrosion, and a medicine cleansing our decay.
The era of sanctified pretense is over. Nigeria now stands before the tribunal of destiny: one path leads to regeneration, the other to perpetual ruin. America’s engagement, if conducted with moral precision, may not only dismantle terror but reawaken the sleeping giant to its forgotten dignity.
To the jihadists and their financiers — the season of impunity is expiring. To the Nigerian state — justice delayed is not justice denied, but justice endangered. And to the Nigerian populace — hope is not an illusion; it is a weapon of survival.
Archbishop Daniel’s benediction resounds through the valleys of despair: You and your household shall not be victims of terror, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
But this Amen must transcend liturgy — it must erupt into civic thunder, into collective defiance. America may deliver the arsenal, but only Nigeria can summon the audacity.
– Inah Boniface Ocholi writes from Ayah – Igalamela/Odolu LGA, Kogi state.
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