Parents and elders from Chibok in Borno State and those from Dapchi in Yobe State have sent emissaries to the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, seeking for help and God’s intervention
for the safe return of the remaining girls abducted from their schools by the Boko Haram Islamic group.
Led by the elder brother to Leah Sharibu’s father (names withheld), the delegation on Sunday April 7, 2019, met Prophet TB Joshua, the founder of the SCOAN.
Carrying placards with different inscriptions: ‘Please save our girls’, ‘We want our daughters back, ‘TB Joshua please help us save our girls’, the delegation lamented that parents of the girls were dying because they were yet to see their children since five years ago.
The delegation stated: “We have come to seek for your help and intervention for the return of Leah Shuaibu,
remaining Chibok girls and others still being held by the Boko-Haram. Please, help us; you are our last hope; this is our last bus stop.”
Meanwhile, the General Overseer (GO) SCOAN,
Prophet TB Joshua, has called on Christians to always differentiate between natural
talent from spiritual gifts, adding that many, including some acclaimed men of God, misinterpret
and misapply both thereby trying to put God and his words as contained in the Bible in bad light.
On the topic, “The Misinterpretation of Natural Talents as Spiritual Gifts,” Joshua, who read from different portions of the Bible to buttress his point however said, ‘‘We are in the perilous times, very difficult to understand.’
“Every human created by God has each natural talent. We are all created in the image of God and endowed with certain natural talents different from one another. Some have natural talents but not spiritual gifts.”
The cleric attributed most of the challenges bedeviling Nigeria to sin and man’s unrighteousness to his creator and
therefore called for repentance for God’s intervention and healing of “our land.”
The man of God however called for a three day
fasting and prayers for ‘God to have mercy on mankind’.
Recall that 276 secondary school girls were abducted from a boarding school in Chibok, while another group, including Leah Shuaibu was abducted from Dapchi.
Already, 164 had been reportedly returned or escaped from their Boko-Haram captors, while 112 are still missing.
Sunday April 14, 2019 will mark the fifth year anniversary of the kidnapped Chibok girls.