EASTER: MINISTER OF DEFENCE URGES  CHRISTIANS TO PRAY FOR TROOPS.

Minister of Defence Maj Gen Bashir Salihi Magashi (retd) has implored Christians to take advantage of the  easter celebrations for spiritual rejuvenation  and to pray for an end to insecurity in the Country.

    General Magashi said this in a statement signed by Mr. Mohammad Abdulkadri Special Assistant to the Minister, Media and Publicity to felicitate with the Christians on the occasion of easter celebrations.

   He stated that Easter period provides auspicious time to seek God's intervention and manifestation in finding lasting solutions to the nation's security challenges. 

 The Minister of Defence said Easter in Christendom  calls for  " Show of piety and pity for the less privileged.

It is also a time for genuine sober reflection on how to promote good  neighbourliness, christ -  like good deeds, adherence to law and order of the land,nationalistic ethos and ethics as well as indivisibility of one Nigeria in diversity based on love and peace among cooperating entities in the country. 

  While felicitating with Christians, the Minister  enjoined religious leaders and followers of Christ to pray for  the troop's victory over the adversaries and for total peace and sanity to return to the dark spots of insecurity in parts of the Country. 

  He tasked the fighting forces defending the Nation's territorial integrity to sustain high tempo of superior firing power and charged them to remain rugged and dogged in taking the fight to the camps and corridors of the enemies of the Nigerian state perpetrating and profiting from national insecurity. 

   He assured the gallant troops that their all year round sacrifices without enjoying festivities will not be in vain even as they are not opportuned to celebrate easter with their families and the loved ones". 

  While wishing Christian brethren a peaceful, prosperous and hitch free easter celebrations, he assured Nigerians that the Military and other security agencies are determined never to compromise the nation's  sovereignty and integrity in the campaigns to end terrorism, banditry and kidnapping in the Country.