The truth can only be delayed but not denied – CAN reacts to Lai Mohammed’s statement of Boko Haram attacking Christians to stir a religious war

The Christian Association of Nigeria has reacted to Minister of
Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed’s comment of Boko Haram attacking
Christians to stir a religious war.

In a statement released by CAN’s Vice Chairman Rev. Joseph Hayab, the
Christian group recounted the condemnation it got from some persons it
described as “overzealous representatives of government”, after raising
an alarm over the killings.

The statement reads;

“Every honest and right-thinking Nigerian and none Nigerians alike
following the deadly killings in Nigeria must have recognised that Boko
Haram and other killers groups have been targeting Christians for
reasons only known to them.

“The worst of this denial was when our dear President had the
privilege to write a column on one famous Christian magazine where his
writers chose to use that platform to expose themselves as peddlers of
falsehood.

“Our cry has never been to discredit anyone or the government, but
the focus has been that those in power should admit the truth about what
was happening to Christians in Nigeria, not as a sign of failure but an
honest way to finding a workable lasting solution to the evil on goings
in our land.

“Since the truth can only be delayed but not denied, the Federal
Government of Nigeria should use public admittance by her Minister of
Information that Boko Haram and other killer groups in Nigeria truly are
targeting Christians to stir a religious war and fashion out ways that
Christians, their leaders, and places of worship will be protected.

“The government at this point should also seek to engage critical
stakeholders to discuss possible ways of uniting the country to defeat
the common enemy, in this case, Boko Haram and the kidnappers, that have
made our roads and homes unsafe.

“When persons who are bereaved of a wife, a father, a child or loved
ones are insulted at the time they should be consoled, the government
simply becomes inhuman and abuses the privilege of office.

“CAN and its entire membership love this country because we have no
other country to call ours and want the best for Nigeria, but we can not
get the best for Nigeria through denial or claiming ignorance of the
pains citizens are going through.

“We will never stop praying for and speaking the truth to those in
power until we see the Nigeria of our dream comes to reality,”