Christian leaders to meet to review security situation.
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has said that Christian leaders would meet soon to review the security situation in the country and fashion out an appropriate response to the menace of terrorism.
Oritsejafor said that the meeting would address the current sectarian violence across the northern part of the country .
Reacting to the Christmas Day attacks which have left several people dead, the CAN President urged well-meaning Nigerians to await the outcome of the proposed ``crucial'' meeting.
"I am extremely angry. This is a barbaric and most uncivilised action of human beings in a civilised world. Even animals have respect for each other. It is inhuman, it’s barbaric! It’s satanic.
"I wonder why certain characters are sponsoring these acts of violence on fellow human beings, and go home without any feeling of guilt. I am not talking of people who are used to carrying out the dastardly acts but those who sponsor them.
"Let us not deceive ourselves, as good as religion is, religion can be a terrible thing because it is only religion that can give a man the conviction to do this kind of thing. It is incredible.
"Christmas is a day when over 80 million Nigerians join billions of fellow Christians across the globe to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, wouldn’t you just respect that?
"It is totally barbaric and unacceptable. I am short of words to describe how I feel, because I finished the first service in my church and came to the office when I began to receive calls from different parts of the country of the shocking news of the attacks,” the statement quoted Oritsejafor as saying.
The CAN President dismissed insinuations that the current incessant terrorist attacks in different parts of the country, had ethnic coloration.
He also said that he would not accept the theory of poverty as being the motivating factor.
There is a section in the North that is not happy and that is where we are not bold enough to face the truth. The truth is that, it is not the North that is not happy; it is a section of the North that is not happy," he added.
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has said that Christian leaders would meet soon to review the security situation in the country and fashion out an appropriate response to the menace of terrorism.
Oritsejafor said that the meeting would address the current sectarian violence across the northern part of the country .
Reacting to the Christmas Day attacks which have left several people dead, the CAN President urged well-meaning Nigerians to await the outcome of the proposed ``crucial'' meeting.
"I am extremely angry. This is a barbaric and most uncivilised action of human beings in a civilised world. Even animals have respect for each other. It is inhuman, it’s barbaric! It’s satanic.
"I wonder why certain characters are sponsoring these acts of violence on fellow human beings, and go home without any feeling of guilt. I am not talking of people who are used to carrying out the dastardly acts but those who sponsor them.
"Let us not deceive ourselves, as good as religion is, religion can be a terrible thing because it is only religion that can give a man the conviction to do this kind of thing. It is incredible.
"Christmas is a day when over 80 million Nigerians join billions of fellow Christians across the globe to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, wouldn’t you just respect that?
"It is totally barbaric and unacceptable. I am short of words to describe how I feel, because I finished the first service in my church and came to the office when I began to receive calls from different parts of the country of the shocking news of the attacks,” the statement quoted Oritsejafor as saying.
The CAN President dismissed insinuations that the current incessant terrorist attacks in different parts of the country, had ethnic coloration.
He also said that he would not accept the theory of poverty as being the motivating factor.
There is a section in the North that is not happy and that is where we are not bold enough to face the truth. The truth is that, it is not the North that is not happy; it is a section of the North that is not happy," he added.
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