Group Tasks FG On Security

The Nigeria Christian Graduate Fellowship, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently take necessary steps towards arresting the rising wave of insecurity in different parts of the country. The Fellowship made this call at its National Executive Council meeting held in Benin City, Edo State over the weekend.

In a release signed by the Publicity Secretary, Hon. Dan Aigbavboa, the NCGF noted that most Nigerians, now live in fear, because of the unfathomable spate of kidnappings in Southern Nigeria and the gruesome murder of innocent citizens in the Northern part of the country, especially in Jos, Bauchi and Maiduguri.

The body expressed great worry over what it described as “camouflage destruction of lives and annihilation” taking place in Jos as well as the “sporadic explosions, unending assassinations and malicious arson in Maiduguri” and noted that the series  of connected events were capable of undermining the nation’s democracy and its corporate existence as one indivisible country.

More worrisome, according to the Fellowship, was the deliberate destruction of churches by sponsored miscreants in some Northern states, an action which has largely infringed on the right of christians in the areas to worship their sovereign God. It equally expressed shock and disbelief that some unscrupulous persons could even go the extent of planting bombs in churches as recently reported in the media.

The Christian organisation, therefore, charged the federal government to address the unwholesome actions of wicked Nigerians even as it enjoined Government to thoroughly investigate the attacks and bring the perpetrators to book without fear or favour.

The NCGF, which is an inter-denominational body of mature Christians, also charged the nation’s security agencies to be more proactive in their operations in order to nip the acts of criminality in the bud, as the usual assurance by security chiefs after a crime had been committed that “those behind the incident would be arrested and prosecuted” had become clichés which serve no useful purpose.

The body, however, called on all Nigerians to imbibe the spirit of tolerance and learn to live at peace with one another irrespective of ethnic, religious or political disposition.

Ben-ose Ogbemudia, Benin