Why Is Blood Flowing Like Water? Pastor Paul Enenche Condemns Tinubu's Silence Over National Bloodshed

 

Abuja, Nigeria – Amid a wave of deadly attacks in parts of Nigeria, the Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr. Paul Enenche, has issued a passionate cry against the escalating violence plaguing the country, while strongly criticizing what he describes as the frightening silence of the nation’s leadership.

Speaking to thousands of worshippers during a Special Sunday Service at the Glory Dome in Abuja, Pastor Enenche did not hold back in his condemnation of the ongoing bloodshed in Plateau, Benue, and Enugu states. His message, charged with emotion and urgency, painted a grim picture of communities under siege, families being wiped out, and children brutally murdered in their sleep — atrocities happening in a country that, in his words, has become numb to tragedy.

The cleric disclosed that just moments before the service, he received a heart-wrenching phone call from a village pastor stationed in one of the recently attacked communities. The call, he said, was filled with anguish as the local minister narrated the horrors his people were enduring — entire households exterminated overnight, lives snuffed out without warning, and a future stolen from innocent children.

“There is blood flowing like water,” Enenche declared from the pulpit. “What did we do in this country to deserve such horror? In Plateau, in Benue, in Enugu — the ground drinks blood, and still, nothing is done. No concrete action. No meaningful intervention.”

His voice rising with frustration, Pastor Enenche asked pointed questions that cut deep into the heart of the national crisis. He spoke of a broken system, where ordinary citizens are left to fend for themselves against violent invaders, and where lawlessness continues to flourish under the watch of a seemingly indifferent leadership.

“You have your farmland,” he said, “and some people come to uproot your cassava to feed their animals. You ask why, and they respond with violence. They waste your blood — on your own father’s land. And yet, nobody is saying anything. What kind of leadership watches while the nation bleeds?”

Enenche’s words resonated strongly as he highlighted the growing fear and insecurity even among former members of Nigeria’s security agencies. He recounted a recent conversation with an ex-security operative who admitted he no longer feels safe enough to visit his own hometown. The roads, he was told, have become corridors of fear and death.

The pastor's lamentations underscore a national reality that many Nigerians have come to accept with tragic resignation. Yet, his call was not just a lament; it was a plea for urgency, compassion, and genuine governance. He demanded that those in positions of power wake up to their responsibilities, make laws that protect citizens, and end the culture of silence that now seems more terrifying than the violence itself.

“When will we have people in authority who have a heart for the people?” he asked. “When will we stop this wastage of blood and act with the urgency that this crisis demands?”

In a nation already fatigued by endless security challenges — from banditry to insurgency, communal clashes to criminal herdsmen attacks — Enenche's message strikes a painful but necessary chord. His outrage is one that echoes the cries of countless victims and survivors whose stories often go unheard, buried beneath political rhetoric and governmental inaction.

As the violence continues unabated, the call from the pulpit at the Glory Dome is now added to the chorus of voices demanding change — a cry not only for justice but for humanity to return to a land where the value of life appears to have diminished beyond recognition.

With killings on the rise and leadership still hesitant to confront the crisis head-on, Enenche’s message remains clear and uncompromising: The blood of Nigerians should no longer be the price paid for silence.