The Diocese of Enugu, Anglican Communion, has sounded a urgent alarm over terrorists allegedly operating from South-East forests, condemning the Federal Government’s repentant terrorist reintegration policy and demanding President Tinubu take a far tougher stance on security despite N5.41 trillion already budgeted for the fight against insecurity.
Nigeria’s Anglican Church has had enough — and it’s saying so from the pulpit, loudly.
The Diocese of Enugu, Anglican Communion, wrapped up its Third Session of the 19th Synod at St. Peter’s Church Ogbete on June 28, 2026, with a communiqué that went straight for the jugular on Nigeria’s worsening security crisis — zeroing in on a threat many have whispered about but few institutions have addressed head-on: terrorists operating from forests right inside the South-East.
“The Synod notes, with serious concern, reports of terrorists operating within forests in the South East and urges both the Federal Government and governments in the region to immediately take steps to flush them out,” the church declared, according to the communiqué signed by Bishop Samuel Obiajulu Ike and senior church officials and obtained by Nigerian media.
The timing is pointed. The church’s alarm comes as kidnappings, ambushes and killings continue to plague communities across the region — and as the Federal Government’s N5.41 trillion security allocation in the 2026 budget draws increasingly sharp scrutiny against a backdrop of unrelenting violence.
The Diocese didn’t just flag the forest threat. It took direct aim at one of government’s most controversial security policies — the reintegration of so-called repentant terrorists — condemning it outright and demanding accountability for both perpetrators and their financiers.
The church specifically called out the continued abduction and killing of children and teachers — a reference to a pattern of attacks that has horrified Nigerians in recent months — and urged President Bola Tinubu to stop treating terrorism with kid gloves.
The Sun reported that the communiqué was signed by Synod Secretary Rev. Canon Ifeanyi Agu, Registrar Paulson C. Egbo, Chancellor Prof. Offornze D. Amucheazi (SAN) and Bishop Ike — giving the statement the full institutional weight of one of the South-East’s most influential religious bodies.
The message from Enugu’s Anglican leadership is clear, urgent and unambiguous.
Nigeria is bleeding. The budget isn’t stopping it. And the church wants answers — not allocations.
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