Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said that it backs the professional and patriotic action of the Nigerian military over the arrest of 486 suspected members of the Boko Haram sect. The men were nabbed in Abia State as they traveled in over 33 Hiace Hummer buses at about 2am, along Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, last Sunday. CAN urged authorities not to feel intimidated or blackmailed from taking any move within the law to stop and question any person or group of persons. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, CAN’s National General Secretary, Dr Musa Asake, also called on security agencies to ignore the submissions of Ja’amatu Nasril Islam (JNI) and go ahead with the investigation of the suspects. He said the claim by JNI that the arrested persons are innocent and that they were going about their normal businesses when a wanted terror suspects was found among them, is hasty and preposterous. He described the claim as misleading and a mischievous attempt to cover up. The Kano State government, meanwhile, has set up a committee to look into the case of the arrested persons. The committee, under the chairmanship of the Commissioner for Special Duties, General Idris Bello Dambazau (rtd), will among other things find out whether Kano citizens were among the arrested persons. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Abubakar Damburan Nuhu, disclosed this on Friday. He said the committee would find out the nature of offence allegedly committed “They are to look at whether the alleged offence is bail-able. If it is bail-able, they should make sure that the affected suspects are bailed. The committee is mandated to see to the release of Kano citizens among them. Government will not allow for any form of maltreatment to its citizens.” Asake said: “ CAN is not against Muslims because we are working together to build the Nigeria of our dream. However, of recent CAN has noted the deliberate policy of Ja’amatu Nasril Islam (JNI) and some unabashed sympathies for Boko Haram, to give inaccurate report on matters they know little or nothing about, especially when Muslims are at the receiving end. As the umbrella body of Christian faithful in Nigeria, CAN will not play the ostrich when the evil prospects of Islamic terrorism spreading to Southern Nigeria is being explored by Boko Haram. “It has come to the attention of CAN that some Muslim hirelings are behaving in an extremely submissive way, in order to please those in authority at the JNI. This is why we in CAN are not surprised in the least with the reported reaction of the JNI and its cohorts that the 486 people arrested in Abia State are traders.”
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 22:52:56 +0000
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