CDS General Olufemi Oluyede, the Theology of Mercy, and Nigeria’s Hard Reality: Can Terror Be Pardoned? Nigeria is bleeding. Communities are buried in grief, families are shattered by abductions, and yet, at the highest level of the nation’s military command, a troubling question has emerged—should terrorists be forgiven? When Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Olufemi Oluyede, invoked the story of the Biblical prodigal son to justify giving violent actors a chance to repent, he did more than make a
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