CAN Asks FG to Control Influx of Foreign Herders into Country
Dani Sani
As an effort to curtail the incessant and wanton killings of innocent citizens by herdsmen, the Christian Association Nigeria (CAN), Adamawa State chapter, has tasked the federal government to beef up security around Nigeria’s porous borders in order to control the influx of foreign herdsmen into the country.
The state Chairman of CAN, Rev Stephen Dami Mamza, made the assertion at a press briefing in Yola, the state capital, yesterday, noting that both the federal and state governments need to step up its security apparatus so as to protect its citizens from the high spate of killings by herdsmen and other forms of violence across the country.
He further explained that the wanton destruction of lives and property in the state and beyond might adversely impact on the country’s economy, and results to unemployment and poverty which are the major caused of insecurity and other social vices.
However, Mamza, appealed to the state government to caution its officials from on unguarded statement which has the tendencies of truncating peaceful coexistence of the state.
“CAN wishes to state in unequivocal terms that violent elements are easily embolden and fueled by unguarded utterances.
“We called on the government to work around the Justice Adamu Hobong (rtd) administrative committee of inquiry set up to unravel the immediate and remote courses of farmers/herdsmen crisis in the state.
“We equally call for the implementation of the previous committees reports by the state government.
“The government should not keep silent on these crises, and no decisive action was taken by concerned authorities to prevent it,” the CAN leader said.
Mamza also called on the government to fish out perpetrators behind burning of four churches in Sagal community in Maiha Local Government Area of the state and bring them to book.
He said these elements causing mayhem in the state should be decisively dealt with, as he enjoined Christians to be law abiding and pray against the insecurity challenging bedeviling the country.