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Suspected bandits, on Sunday, 18 January, 2026, stormed the Cherubim and Seraphim Church 1 Cherubim and Seraphim Church 2 and the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA). in Kurmin Wali community, Kajuru LGA, of Kaduna State, and abducted about 177 worshippers during church services.
Earlier on Monday, the Chairman of the Northern Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. John Hayab, confirmed this incident from the CAN chairman in that area. According to him, the assailants stormed the churches while services were in progress, locked the gates, and forcefully marched worshippers into the bush. Hayab called on the Federal Government, the Kaduna State Government, and security agencies to immediately intensify efforts to rescue the abducted worshippers, and even volunteered to stand in solidarity and provide any useful information that will expose this evil.
Unsurprisingly, but unfortunately, the Kaduna State Government and the Kaduna State Police Command dismissed Hayab’s reports that about 177 worshippers were abducted during attacks on churches in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state, describing the claims as false and misleading. Addressing journalists after the State Security Council meeting at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House on Monday, the Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Rabiu said the report was being peddled by “conflict entrepreneurs” bent on causing chaos in the state, and even warned rumour mongers to desist from spreading unverified claims, threatening that the full weight of the law would be brought to bear on those attempting to derail the prevailing peace in Kaduna State.
Speaking through the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Sule Shuaibu (SAN), Kaduna State Government said that the CAN chairman and other religious leaders had interacted with residents of the community where the alleged kidnap was reported and found out that what was pushed out to the public sphere was completely false. Similarly, the Chairman of Kajuru Local Government Area, Dauda Madaki, said investigations carried out by the council and security agencies showed that no such attack occurred. He said he mobilised police officers and other security personnel to the church where the so-called kidnapping took place and confirmed that there was no evidence of the attack. He even claimed that he asked the village head, Mai Dan Zaria, and the youth leader of the area, Bernard Bona, and they said that there was no such attack.
The three tiers of the government under Tinubu and APC in Kaduna State challenged anyone claiming that the people were kidnapped to provide the identities of the alleged abducted persons. The Hayab’s group jumped at this challenge and provided irrefutable evidence of the kidnapped victims of the terrorists in Kajuru by providing their names. It was a disgrace to see the three layers of government, swallow their own lies, deceit, and mischief and admitted that indeed their own citizens were kidnapped. The Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, had visited the place on Wednesday, 21st January, 2026, to commiserate with the community and to assure them that the kidnapped people will be released. This meant that Hayab was saying the truth and the government was lying.
This is indeed not a good time for Nigerians. The basic duty of government is to protect life and property of its people. It’s no longer news that Tinubu’s government has failed in this duty, the news is that the government has decided to start covering its failure with lies, obviously showcasing a broken system and broken records. A system is a unified whole composed of interrelated parts working together under a set of rules and regulations to perform a duty. Whenever any part of a system aches or fails to work, it affects the entire system and leads to the breakdown of the system. The national electricity grid controls the entire electricity supply in Nigeria. Whenever there’s a problem in any part of the grid around the country, this can lead to a national grid collapse. This is why it’s important that every part of the system is taken care of, and not neglected to ensure efficiency. When such failures are deceitfully or incompetently communicated, it leads to communication breakdown
The government of Nigeria is composed of three arms of one government – the legislature, executive, and judiciary. When these arms work together under the Constitution and the law, the system improves. When they work in disharmony and against the rule of law, the system degenerates, and this may lead to systemic failure. It is with consternation that Nigerians woke up to hear from the National Assembly that the Tax Law that was gazetted by the Executive for implementation on Nigerians was forged. As usual, the government offered some unintelligent, unintelligible, illogical, and deceitful explanation to this criminal act on which the signature of Tinubu has been appended. Till date, even after the admission of this unholy alteration of a law duly passed by the legislature, nobody has been investigated, apprehended, or prosecuted for the ignominious act. The government rather chose to proceed with the imposition of a heinous tax burden on already traumatised citizens who are suffering from high electricity tariff rates without electricity. High flight tickets, high transport cost, high health care cost, high education cost, high interest rate, high energy cost, high cost of foreign exchange, high everything.
Within the government of Tinubu, the system is broken. President Tinubu last year, boasted that the total revenue estimate in the 2025 budget was realised at the end of August, 2025. Before the end of the year, his Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, publicly declared that it was only about 25 per cent of the revenue that was realised. When he was quizzed to explain the contradiction between his view and Tinubu’s view, he argued that it was only the non-oil sector revenue that was fully realised at that time. Maybe he revealed that his boss, the President, doesn’t understand the difference between total revenue and non-oil sector revenue. For being too audacious to expose this incompetence on the part of the President, Wale Edun was deprived of the duty to decide on revenue matters. Whether that decision helped land him in hospital then, honestly, only him knows, but the incident reflects the brokenness of the financial system under Tinubu.
The tendency towards a broken system started immediately Tinubu was declared President by INEC on the 1st of March, 2023. Rather than concentrating on forming his government and formulating policies for the successful take off of his economic policies and security challenges, he went a-holidaying in France only to come back few days to inauguration to declare incompetently the removal of fuel subsidy on the inauguration ground without a cabinet to look at the consequences which such removal will cost the ordinary Nigerian. The setting up of the cabinet was to last for about 60 days when Tinubunomics has been irrecoverably destroyed. When the system is broken, there’s nothing even the righteous can do.
Continuing with this lacklustre attitude towards leadership of the country even after his inauguration as President, Tinubu spent 196 days abroad holidaying outside Nigeria in 2025 alone. In 2026, the President has already spent about 17 days out of the 22 days in 2026. It’s important to note that anytime the President goes outside the country, he fails, neglects, and refuses to transmit a letter to the National Assembly to empower the Vice-President to act as the President. This is why the incompetent handlers of the President title his journey, working holiday, to evade complying with this constitutional requirement even if the main reason for his extensive foreign tours is believed to be for medical purposes. A situation where the President does not trust his Vice President whom he personally chose for the position is a broken system indeed.
Having no person to act as President in his absence, the nation always grinds to a halt in his absence. This year alone, it has been a gory tale of tears and blood within these 17 days of his absence. On the eve of the New Year, nine persons were killed in Plateau State by terrorists even after there was a security intelligence report that they would be killed. Five persons were killed at the Old Oyo National Park by terrorists. More than 55 persons were killed in Niger State by terrorists. Same stories were told in Kogi, Edo, Zamfara, Katsina, Borno, Kano State and almost all around Nigeria. The Kano State was very concerning as terrorists killed the wife and six children of one man. Kano State has been relatively more peaceful than other states in Nigeria, until Tinubu came in.
There’s no limit to the brokenness of the system under Tinubu. United Nations, this week, declared that Nigeria has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world. One out of 100 women who give birth dies in Nigeria. Fifty-six per cent of pregnant women deliver their children at home without medical attention, because of poverty, transportation cost, dearth of medical personnel, and a host of other factors within the control of Tinubu government. Even the channel of joy for many families has been turned to channel of sorrow by this regime. There’s need for this government to wake up and repair the broken walls before the entire building collapses. Nigerians must insist that power belongs to them, and this government must become accountable to them. Our country is becoming bad, not because of the violence of the bad people but because of the silence of the good ones.
