Killing of a member of the dreaded Boko Haram sect on a battleground
is not a sin against God, the Chaplain of Maimalari Cantonment, Lt. Col.
Cosmas Nwankpa said on Sunday.
Nwankpa, a Catholic Reverend Father, while delivering a sermon with
the theme: “Our Fallen Heroes” at an inter-denominational service in
Maiduguri to mark this year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day, said the
instruction in one of the ten commandment that ‘thou shall not kill,’ is
excused in warfare and no Christian should feel he has broken the
Lord’s commandment when he is called upon to kill at warfront.
He said: “The commandment ‘thou shall not kill’ does not apply to
Boko Haram, your conscience should not prick you when you kill them, it
is even a sin to spare them and allow them to perpetuate doom on the
people and the nation.”
He referred to soldiering as the noblest of all professions, asking,
“what is nobler than dying or laying down ones life for a country?.”
On why the wife of a soldier or widow of a dead soldier should feel
proud, Nwankpa said; “It is nobler to associate with a noble man,”
insisting that “the families of soldiers are nobler than them (the
soldiers).”
He argued that it does not matter when we die but for what we die
for, noting that “our heroes have given their lives so that our nation
remains undivided.”
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