Following the resurgence of abductions and killings across the
country by terrorists and the seeming inability of the government to
stem the tides, the Plateau state chapter of the Christian Association
of Nigeria on Tuesday called on the United Nations to urgently intervene
in the situation and not to allow the insurgents consume all Nigerians.
Chairman of the Youth Wing of CAN in the state, Mr Marcus Kanda
made the appeal while addressing journalists in Jos on Tuesday shortly
after he led a delegation on a condolence visit to the family house of
the late Mr Daciya Dalep, a 200- Level student of the University of
Maiduguri who was executed by Boko Haram insurgents last week.
Kanda said, “As a nation, for how long will we continue to lose
Nigerians from all walks of life, who are adding value to the nation, to
the hands of those who believe that the only value Nigerians deserve is
destruction, mayhem, and trauma?
“For how long will we sacrifice the future of our nation to a group,
whose belief is that no one deserves a peaceful life because they have
not subscribed to their lifestyle of mayhem and carnage?
“For how long will we allow a group that believes no one has any
right to hold onto other religious believes if not theirs? For how long
will we keep spending hundreds of billions of taxpayers money, not only
in fighting this group but also in providing relief to victims of their
mayhem and rehabilitation of lives and communities they have destroyed?
“For how long will we as a nation continue to make official press
releases of “bringing the perpetrators to book” yet this group keeps
becoming confident in its ungodly actions? For how long will we continue
to have the President of Nigeria and Governors of the affected States
be CHIEF MOURNERS?
“We wish to let those who think that this does not affect them or
believe that “ this is a Plateau problem” that leaving this monster
untamed will consume all of us in no distant time if care is not taken.
“We call on the United Nations and other members of the
International Community to, as a matter of urgency, come to the aid of
the Nigerian people especially the primary targets of these terror
attacks, who are Christians.”