Pastor Tunde Bakare Blasts FG Over Chibok Girls

Pastor Tunde Bakare, Senior Pastor of the

Latter Rain Gospel Assembly has come down

heavy on the Federal Government for what he

perceived as gross injustice.

Fiery preacher and Senior Pastor of the Latter

Rain Gospel Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare

yesterday in Abuja, amid tears, chided the

Federal Government for doing so little to rescue

the 219 Chibok girls abducted two years ago.

According to Vanguard, Bakare, a former political

ally of incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari

spoke yesterday in Abuja at a special sit-out of

the #BringBackOurGirls, BBOG.

Pastor Bakare lambasted the attitude of the past

and present administrations for their failure to

rescue the girls saying; “The whole nation has

failed these children.”

According to him:-

“Parents, families and friends of our dear

daughters, I am here today not just to speak to

you, but to speak to the nation and to the

world as one of you. I’m here as a father

burdened by the captivity of our daughters, and

I am here as a friend. I am here to express our

frustrations and to speak of our undying hope

as we wait expectantly for the return of our

dear Chibok girls.

“We are not unmindful that the Nigerian state

failed to provide security for our daughters as

they gathered to write final examinations

despite prior intelligence reports that suggested

they were in danger.

“It is most severely injurious to see that the

fate of our daughters has been frequently

politicized. Rather than rise to the occasion as

stakeholders and custodians of the security and

welfare of the citizens of this nation, political

parties and politicians have paid lip service,

using our pain and plight of our daughters to

score cheap political points.

‘’We are not convinced that the matter of our

daughters has been given the needed

thoughtfulness.

“We do not believe that those who are in a

position to act have taken sufficient actions

towards addressing the issue or even towards

claiming our anxiety as waiting parents.”

According to him, the girls would have been

rescued if they were children of politicians and

renowned pastors. The sit out marked 712 days

since the girls have been kidnapped and part of

BBOG Global Week of Action to mark the two

years anniversary of the abduction.

He said that those responsible for the rescue of

the girls have not taken sufficient actions in the

last two years that the girls have been abducted.

“We do not believe those concerned have taken

sufficient actions concerning the rescue of these

girls”, he said, expressing optimism that the

girls would be rescued even as he prayed God

to see to that.

“We believe that they are still alive, at least no

evidence, satellite evidence that they are in a

mass grave. We believe they are alive. It

remains a scar on the soul of this nation until

these girls are brought back,” he said.