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Police IG Idris warns CAN, others to be careful of utterances
Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has called on the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and other Nigerian leaders to desist from making utterances capable of causing tension that could lead to destruction of lives and properties.
Idris who stated this at a New Year Dinner organised for personnel in Abuja, preached on the need for religious, community and political leaders to be patriotic in their endeavours for peace to reign in the country.
He said, “Nigerians have no other country than Nigeria; hence, the need to do those things that would bring peace and unity to the country,” adding that Nigerians should endeavour to live in peace with one another regardless of religious and ethnic differences.
Idris advice came on the heels of claims by the Catholic Archdiocese of Kafanchan that the murderous attack in southern Kaduna by suspected Fulani herdsmen has claimed more than 808 lives in 53 villages in the area.
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CAN had in a statement by its General Secretary, Musa Asake, on New Year’s Day stated that President Muhammadu Buhari’s continued silence over the “ongoing genocide in Kaduna in the last few weeks speaks volume over perceived official endorsement of the dastardly and ungodly acts.”
The statement went further to disclose that the president of CAN has directed that Sunday, January 8, 2017, should be declared a national day of mourning by Christians, including those in the Diaspora, adding that the body will use that day to pray fervently for “our Southern Kaduna brothers and sisters who are victims of these wanton killings and also for the peace of our dear country.”
The Police is yet to come up with the number of people murdered in the crisis even as they have been criticised by many, for their inability to stem the crisis.
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Margret Dickson
January 3, 2017 at 2:50 pm
I think the police should start arresting religious leaders whenever any crisis is connected to religion, with this the followers will no they are not supposed to put their leaders in trouble and they will desist from crisis
JOHNSON PETER
January 3, 2017 at 2:52 pm
I am sure you must be a saddist and athetis .so you want police to start arresting religious leaders. Then your life will become miserable.
Animashaun Ayodeji
January 3, 2017 at 2:52 pm
This message should be directed to the Muslims in particular. They are filled with unnecessary aggression, they start most fights and cause destruction of worship places
Emmanuel Alayegbami
January 3, 2017 at 3:31 pm
Tell them.
You can never hear Christians cause any religious violence because we are for peace. But they are for war.
It’s high time we show them we are not mumu nor zombies.
chichi emerue
January 3, 2017 at 4:17 pm
We are not mumu but yet we must remain peaceful . If they slap us on the right cheek, we need turn our left cheek.
seyi jelili
January 3, 2017 at 3:11 pm
This IG must be a fool. So he thought Christians inflated the figures of victims who had lost their lives and properties in the incident , except we want to lie, thousands have died. If the police does their investigation now, they would lie that it was only 25 people that died.
Joy Madu
January 3, 2017 at 4:08 pm
Very correct. Police will never reveal the true figures of the people who lost their lives.
But yet we have to obey higher authority as Christians.
Roland Uchendu Pele
January 3, 2017 at 8:03 pm
I thought I was the only person that thinks CAN has been talking too much!
sylver
January 5, 2017 at 11:22 am
Woe onto them that are at ease at what is happening,pls CAN shout on top of your voice until God silent the killers and their allies.the perpetrators will have their wives become widows, children as orphans and God will finally deal with them.