National President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Rev. Samson Ayokunle
It, therefore, urged the security agencies to wake up to their responsibilities.CAN lamented that despite the curfew, the presence of the Police and other security agencies in the volatile zone, the killings remain unabated, urging its members to continue praying for the permanent restoration of peace in the area.
Speaking at the just-concluded meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Christian umbrella body in Abuja, its president, Rev Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, condemned the persistent destruction of church buildings in some parts of the country, lamenting the seeming powerlessness of the law enforcement agencies.
Ayokunle said: “All of us should organise prayers again and if possible, with fasting, to seek the intervention of God, so that this senseless destruction of human beings might stop.
“I think what has encouraged this type of carnage in Southern Kaduna is the inability of the law enforcement agents to apprehend the criminals responsible for these killings and if they were apprehended at all, they were not conclusively prosecuted.
“We have had these days more often than not, the law enforcement agents saying that the criminals are ‘unknown gun men.’ Whose duty is it to know them? Is it not the law enforcement agents?”
Ayokunle further disclosed plans by the National Secretariat of CAN to provide relief materials for the victims of the carnage in both Southern Kaduna and Agatu community in Benue State.
“We are planning to visit Southern Kaduna to distribute relief materials to the victims of the massacre there. We planned to do this earlier and chose date, but we couldn’t go because we received security report that it was not safe to do so.
“We would equally visit Agatu community in Benue State to distribute relief materials.”The CAN president also charged its members not to cease praying for President Muhammadu Buhari, Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, and a quick recovery of the economy from the recession to relief the populace, who are under its consequences.
He added: “We should organise prayers, if possible vigil, at every state secretariat of CAN to pray for our country at a chosen date and the FCT CAN should come to the national secretariat for their own.
“In each centre, the governor of the state or his representative should be invited to such prayer meeting.”On the economic recession, Ayokunle noted: “With the way our economy is going and violence is increasing without much answer from the law enforcement agents, we need divine intervention.
“Churches were destroyed in states, such as Jigawa, on the excuse that they did not get building permit, whereas they had applied for many years without being given the permit.
“Recently, a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) building was burnt down in Dei- Dei, here in Abuja, very early in the morning. What shall we do to these continuous provocations without any visible action by the law enforcement agents?”
He called on all and sundry to support CAN Trust Fund, as “it is the answer to the paucity of funds for operation in CAN,” adding that without sufficient fund, the CAN leadership might not be able to discharge all the constitutional responsibilities, including the Save Our Souls cries from its members.
The meeting had in attendance all the principal officers, national officers, zonal and state leaders, where they prayed for the unity of the body of Christ and the country, including Buhari and the government at all levels.
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