Admin l Monday, December 05, 2016
KADUNA – The youth wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has accused Kaduna State Governor, Mallam, Nasir El-Rufai of collaborating with terrorists to decimate Christians.
In a statement, national President of the group, Engr Daniel David Karzai said Nasir El-Rufai’s unfortunate condemnation of the CAN President statement over the cleansing of Christians further exposes the Governor’s inability to come to terms with realities for political reasons.
“We shall no longer tolerate the disrespect for the office and person of the CAN President, Dr. Samson Supo Ayokunle, especially the statements attributed to Kaduna State Governor and other Nigerians. We wish to reiterate the high esteem accorded to the CAN President.
“We the Christian Youths of Nigeria stand firm and support the position of the CAN President, after C.A.N National Executive Committee meeting with Southern Kaduna Christian community Leaders in Abuja, on Save our soul visit to CAN over the targeted cleansing of Christians”, the group said.
According to them instead of seeking the collaboration of CAN through strategic prayers and consultations to end the senseless killings, the governor debunked the statement of the CAN President and attributed the killings of Christians in southern Kaduna communities to bandit , claiming, “The same Fulanis are killing Fulanis in Zamfara State.”
“We, the Christian Youths totally disagree with the claims of the Kaduna Governor that, the attackers who”organised themselves and came back for revenge….in southern Kaduna and plateau state are from outside Nigeria.
“Whether the fulani terrorist are from Nigeria or not, we the Christian Youths agree that there is deliberate and calculated cleansing of Christians in Nigeria. Thus ,we call on all Christians to resist it”, the group said.
According to them the initiative to compensate the Fulanis for lost catles as well as placating them and sponsoring delegates to meet fulani leaders outside Nigeria amounts to playing to the gallery and smacks off sentiments without recourse to the Christians killed or the plight of their mourning families.
“It is the highest point of insensitivity to use of state fund to pay and placate the aggressors/terrorists at the expense of the victims”, they said.
They called on the Federal government to close the Northern Nigerian border between Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Benin Republic without delay. They also called on Kaduna State House of Assembly to impeach El-Rufai immediately for conniving with terrorists to kill Nigerians.
“Also, the rate of abduction and robbery are on the increase, thus further confirming the weak or compromised internal security apparatus.
“We call on the Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai to respect the CAN President and know that Christians have the right to self-defence, especially where there is complacency or complicity on the part of security operatives or politicians’’, the youths said.
