The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has again condemned wanton killings and destruction of properties across the nayion by Fulani Herdsmen and other groups.
The association’s president, Rev Samson Ayokunle made this known in a Tuesday statement signed by his Special Assistant (Media and Communications), Pastor Adebayo Oladeji.
The statement came on the heels of the burial, in Benue on Tuesday, of two Catholic priests and 17 parishioners killed by suspected herdsmen in Gwer East LGA of the state in April.
Ayokunle said, “Buhari’s government should not fold arms and watch misguided Nigerians, mostly Boko Haram and herdsmen, promote killing as a pasttime, in the name of politics and ethnicity while solutions appear elusive.
“It is disheartening to note that criminal Fulani herdsmen, bandits, kidnappers and other hoodlums have reduced Nigeria to a Banana Republic.
“This development is unacceptable and we call on all well-meaning people, anywhere in the world, to join hands in praying for the deliverance, freedom and liberty from this self-inflicted bondage.”
He called on President Muhammadu Buhari to halt his second term bid in order to attend to security challenges in the country.
Ayokunle added that CAN “is not opposed to the president’s exercise of his civic right, by seeking re-election to the office for the second time, we urge him to halt it meanwhile and attend to the security problems occasioned by the criminal activities of the terrorists, herdsmen and bandits.”