Leave Jonathan, arrest herdsmen, economy, CAN tells Buhari

The northern chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to focus more attention on how to curb the menace of “marauding and murderous herdsmen”, erratic power supply and an economy that was getting weaker since he assumed office, and shelve any purported move aimed at arresting former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The body in a statement in Kaduna signed by its Public Relation Officer, PRO, Rev. John Joseph Hayab, who was at one-time Adviser on Religious Affairs (Christians) to both late Governor Ibrahim Yakowa and former Governor Ramalan Yero of Kaduna State said that any move to arrest Jonathan who he described as hero of Nigeria’s democracy, will set a wrong precedent and only open doors for mischievous people to set the nation into confusion.

According to him, “What Nigerians need urgently is availability of fuel, electricity, prompt salary, security of lives and properties etc.”

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He also said that “If our President wants to arrest anything for now then he should arrest the incessant spate of herdsmen attacks in Nigeria which has led to the deaths of almost a thousand innocent Nigerians under his watch. He should arrest the dangerous slide in the power sector; he should arrest the slide in the economy. We believe at this time and with the current realities our former president must not be denigrated but honoured, because honour must be given to whom it is due.”

He continued, that “If the purported plan to arrest Jonathan is to please the international community and prove to them that we are fighting corruption, then let us know that these same international community are busy celebrating him as hero of democracy and even those who seriously wanted him to go for a change to happen are now singing a new song about him.

“Former President Jonathan is deservedly seen in Nigeria and beyond as a hero of democracy because of his actions before, during and after the 2015 elections. As such, it will be curious for the Buhari administration to initiate the arrest of such a statesman.

“Government must know that there are individuals serving today that have also been accused of corruption, but since there are claims that nothing has been established against them, they are walking and speaking like saints. While ignoring all these people, government now wants to arrest a man of peace like Jonathan?”

 

 

 

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