Mrs. Eunice Elisha was killed in Kubwa region of Abuja, FCT, in the early hours of the day. Her neck was sliced and she was likewise cut in the stomach. Around a month back in Kano, Mrs. Bridget Agbaheme, a 74 year old Christian was killed at Wambai market because of a squabble with a Muslim man who went to the front of her shop to perform bathing. Her offense was that she questioned the Islamic washing custom before her shop.
Simply a week ago a priest of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) Reverend Zakariya was murdered by assailants suspected to be Fulani Herdsmen in Obi LGA of Nasarawa state. They assaulted him on his ranch, remove his arms and legs, then they cleaved his head with a cleaver. Another crisp however miserable news contacting us is that of the Fulani herders local army that is back on frenzy murdering 81 individuals in different assaults in Logo and Ukum neighborhood government zones of Benue state in focal Nigeria.
As of late, there have been different instances of assaults by Fulani herders on different Christian people group, everywhere throughout the country. In the South East and in the South zones, there have been horrifying assaults on IPOB individuals and on Christian people group in the Niger Delta. All these are notwithstanding the persevering assaults of Boko Haram and Fulani herders in the Middle Belt and southern Borno.
The Christian Association of Nigeria sympathizes with the families influenced by these careless blow-outs of death and demolition and in addition with the whole Christian people group in Nigeria. We supplicate that God in His leniency should comfort and fortify the groups of the considerable number of Nigerians influenced in these unjustifiable killings unleashed upon the country by religious fanatics.
The repeating decimal of savagery and homicide of blameless Nigerian subjects on the premise of religious bigotry requests particular and applicable reaction from every concerned native in the nation all the more so when the administration in force appears to have embraced a state of mind of tepid reaction to the shades of malice being executed in Nigeria for the sake of religion.
The victimization non-Muslims in Nigeria under the Buhari Administration is accepting a risky measurement that ought not be left to the caprices of time and condition to determine.
You will concur with me that with these happenings and the tepid mentality by the powers worry toward putting a conclusion to it, Nigeria is moving a grim move of death, both for the country and for its subjects. The time has come to stop the beat and let sound judgment control the country out of the present mess. A fasten in time spares nine.
Prior to the circumstance grows into an unmanageable national emergency, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) is approaching the powers both at the states and elected to do everything conceivable to convey the culprits to equity if the certainty of Christians on this administration must be kept up.
The unmerited assaults on Christians and the power's inaction is getting to be excruciating and may not go on without serious consequences any longer, in light of the fact that we will keep on calling on Christians to stay tolerant and well behaved, it is getting to be inescapable to likewise approach them to lock in and be prepared to shield themselves against these unending unwarranted and thoughtless assaults.
Marked...
Rev. Dr. Musa Asake
General Secretary, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)
tenth July, 2016
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