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CAN Warns Adamawa Govt Against Executing Christian Youths by Mrakeli: 5:18pm On Jun 19, 2018
The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on the Federal Government to caution the Adamawa State Government against “hasty implementation” of the death sentence passed on five Christian youths alleged to have killed a Fulani herdsman.


Justice Abdul-Azeez Waziri of a High Court in Adamawa State recently sentenced Alex Amos, Alheri Phanuel, Holy Boniface, Jerry Gideon and Jari Sabagi to death for culpable homicide.

The convicts were alleged to had on June 1, 2017, at Kadamun village in Demsa Local Government Area ‘willfully and intentionally conspired and attacked three herdsmen rearing cattle, killing one of them, Adamu Buba, whose body they threw into a river and also maimed several cows.’


Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, Special Assistant on media to CAN President, Rev Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, in a statement on Tuesday, warned that while CAN is not supporting jungle justice or any criminality, there has been no persecution of perpetrators of the killing of of hundreds Christians over the years.

It read: “We note with regret how hundreds of our members in Southern Kaduna, Benue, Taraba, Plateau states in the North-central geo-political zones, and a state like Enugu in the South, have been killed and are still being killed on a daily basis by some criminals parading themselves as Fulani herdsmen, but are yet to be apprehended.

“While citizens stood helpless at the massacre of their peaceful fellow Nigerians, the international community watched in anguish how government security agencies could not bring perpetrators of these heinous killings to book.


“We recall with sadness how President Donald Trump had expressed sadness over killings of Christians in Nigeria and even told President Muhammadu Buhari when he recently visited the White House in Washington DC that the United States of America would no longer tolerate a situation where Christians are being killed with impunity.

“Despite the outrage that has trailed the killings of Christians in Nigeria, it is disheartening that none of the killers has been brought to justice. We are shocked at the speed of light deployed by security and judicial officers in sentencing the alleged killers of the herdsman in Adamawa state.

“Why did the court discharge the alleged killers of Madam Bridget Agbahime on the orders of the Kano State Government? Why have security officials not arrested those behind the killings of Christians in Southern Kaduna, while those arrested for the murder of Mrs. Eunice Elisha Olawale in Kubwa, Abuja, have been set free by the Nigeria Police?

“In view of the above, we are asking President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the death sentence passed on these Christian youths in Adamawa. We have called on our legal team to secure and study the text of the judgment with a view to preventing a miscarriage of justice and a future re-occurence.”

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Re: CAN Warns Adamawa Govt Against Executing Christian Youths by faithfull18(f): 5:49pm On Jun 19, 2018
Hmm.
Re: CAN Warns Adamawa Govt Against Executing Christian Youths by OriginalKogiboy(m): 5:50pm On Jun 19, 2018
muMURIC Will not talk na.
even CAN could talk because council of bishop an intl comunity condemned it.
just happy cor now CHRISTIAN AGAINST TERORIST (CAT) will start jungle justice in counter killing islamic jihadist soon. am happy a member... BIDA CHAPTER.

we vibrant pastors against estreemist...
Re: CAN Warns Adamawa Govt Against Executing Christian Youths by tunjiajayi: 5:58pm On Jun 19, 2018
Clerics of scum.

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