The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has called on the Senate to reject President Muhammadu Buhari’s $29.6b loan request.
The PFN took the stand on Wednesday in a statement made available to
journalists in Enugu, by its Chairman, Rev. Dr. Godwin Madu.
Madu maintained that President Buhari should suspend the borrowing plans.
He said the President should instead “use the recovered loots for
implementing its policies. It will not be nice at this time of recession
to go borrowing for any reason when there are billions of Naira so far
recovered from individuals and corporate bodies.
“The Senate should not approve it because it is not to the best
interest of the country. Such move will further ruin the future of this
country.”
The Christian body equally condemned the release of five suspects in
the murder of an Igbo woman in Kano, Madam Bridget Agbahime.
“How can this type of thing happen in Nigeria? We can’t imagine an
authority of the state making a no-case submission in favour of suspects
who already confessed to the murder.
“The person killed is a human being; this further puts to question
?the integrity of the judiciary because in the first case, the
magistrate court lacks the jurisdiction to try murder cases.
“Our stand is that the National Judicial Council, NJC, should summon
and investigate the magistrate in question”, the PFN declared.
While commending Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for ensuring security of
lives and properties in the State, the Christian body called on other
Governors in the South-East “to do everything.
To protect their citizens wherever they are in Nigeria and in the
Diaspora. Our people should not be allowed to be treated anyhow.
“We call on the Kano State government and the NJC to know that a murder?
case cannot be closed that way; it has become a point of judicial
reference in the court of law.”