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The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has directed its members and Christians across Nigeria to join in its planned nationwide protest on Sunday April 29, 2018.
It said the protest is agianst the Federal Government’s inability to end killings in different parts of the country, particularly in Benue, Plateau, Taraba and Nasarawa states.
CAN President Rev. Samson Olasupo, in a statement by his media aide, Pastor Bayo Oladeji, urged Christians in Nigeria to hold peaceful protest on the said date, suggesting the premises of their churches, asking government and security agencies to end the killings and bloodshed in the country.
He said: “Christians are to carry placards with different inscriptions meant to address issues about sustained killings, attacks and destruction of their property in Nigeria,” the reverend said.
“The inscriptions on placards could possibly read thus, ‘Enough of bloodshed and unlawful killings in Nigeria’; ‘FG release Leah Sharibu from the bondage’; ‘Stop herdsmen killings’; and several other inscriptions that could reawaken the consciousness of the political leaders.”
The association reminded the government of its oath of office and constitutional responsibility of protecting citizens, and charged authorities to quit unnecessary excuses and rise to the occasion.
On Monday, suspected herdsmen invaded a Catholic Church in a Benue community and killed 19 people including two priests.