But this does not satisfy the yernings of CAN president pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, who has called on the president to allow all Nigerians carry arms and defend themselves, in a statement sent to the Tribune Newspaper, the pastor had this to say:
“we urge the president, as the
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, to stop the orgy of ethnic cleansing or accede to recent calls
for all Nigerians to carry arms.”
if the president can no longer guarantee the safety of life and
property of Nigerians, in accordance with the oath he took, then the
National Assembly should immediately enact a law that would make every
Nigerian to carry arms for their own protection.
“As a nation,
we cannot continue like this. There has to be a genuine demonstration of
commitment to the collective development of the country, through
honesty of purpose. The current orgy of violent ethnic crises has
continued unabated for several days, just a few days after the president
had identified the people behind the growing spate of terrorism in the
country,”
Worried by the new dimension the
crises had assumed in recent times, which had led to the killing of over
52 persons, including pregnant women and children within 10 days, the
CAN president called on President Jonathan to reassure Nigerians that
he had the capacity to guarantee their safety in any part of the nation,
by urgently halting what he called the madness taking place in parts of
Plateau State. (source: Tribune)
