FG Will Not Silence Us, We Will Keep Talking About Nigeria’s Insecurity – CAN

Posted by: Folamidavid in News, Politics Jan 8, 2020

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has asked the Federal Government to start doing its job of safeguarding lives and property because it will not stop talking about the insecurity in the country.

According to CAN, FG should get to work and free its members from their captors who claim to be attacking Christians for religious sake.

CAN added that the government can do more than it is doing right now if they want terrorism to be a thing of the past once and for all.

CAN President, Rev. Samson Ayokunle had this to say, “These criminals are targeting predominant Christian communities, killing, maiming and abducting the people with or without any resistance from the security agencies is unprecedented”

“Let government wake up to its responsibility and see if we will not stop talking about its failure to protect our members”,

“That is not the politicisation of religion. The governor of Borno State is shouting that soldiers are extorting the people instead of defending them.

“If the government has not been treating those criminals with kid gloves, let them publish the names of the kingpins of the terrorists, herdsmen killers and bandits in their custody and those who are being prosecuted in the court of law for the world to see.

“How many Christians are heading any of the security agencies in the country?

“We are praying for the government on a daily basis but that does not mean where the government is failing we should keep quiet.

“Since Leah Sharibu and other Chibok girls have been crying for help, there is nothing on ground to show that the government has been sensitive to their plight.

“The only reason they are in captivity is that they are Christians, no more, no less.

“That government is condemning the terror attacks is not the same thing as stopping the attacks and arresting the criminals responsible or are they telling us they are spirits?

“Telling us to keep quiet is adding salt to our injury.

“Last week, it was Adamawa and on Monday, this week, it was Kaduna State where 41 people were kidnapped! “As long as the unpleasant situations in the country remain the same the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria will not keep quiet since that is the only thing we can do aside from praying for the captives”.