CAN Reacts To The Murder Of Evangelist Eunice Olawale

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN ) has called on
President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors in the
country to make sure that perpetrators of unprovoked
attacks against Christians and murder of some Christian
leaders are brought to justice.
The Christian body said this is the only way the
confidence of Christians can be maintained even as it
called on Christian faithful across the country to buckle up
and be ready to defend themselves against these
incessant unprovoked and mindless attacks.
CAN in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its
General Secretary, Rev. Dr . Musa Asake, condemned the
gruesome murder of a 42 year old Christian mother of
seven children, Mrs. Eunice Olawale, who was last
Saturday brutally killed while doing Christian evangelism.
It noted that her murder came just about a month after
Mrs . Bridget Agbaheme, a 74 year old Christian, was
murdered at Wambai Market, Kano, due to an altercation
with a Muslim man who came to the front of her shop to
perform ablution. The Christian body added that just last
week , a clergyman of the Evangelical Church Winning All
(ECWA), Reverend Zakariya, was killed by suspected Fulani
herdsmen in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa
State.
CAN said: “They attacked him on his farm, cut off his arms
and legs , then chopped off his head with a machete.
Another fresh but sad news reaching us is that of a Fulani
militia group that is now on rampage, killing 81 people in
multiple attacks in Logo and Ukum Local Government
Areas of Benue State, ” it lamented.
While commiserating with the families of the affected
people , it described as mindless, SinParties of death and
destruction of the Christian community in the country.
CAN said the recurring decimal of violence and murder of
innocent Nigerian citizens on the basis of religious
intolerance demands specific and relevant response from
all concerned citizens in the country. It particularly
expressed worry that the government in power seems to
have adopted a lukewarm attitude to the evils being
perpetrated in Nigeria in the name of religion.
“We pray that God in His mercies shall comfort and
strengthen the families of all the Nigerians affected in
these unwarranted murders unleashed upon the nation by
religious extremists.
The discrimination against non -Muslims in Nigeria under
the Muhammadu Buhari administration is assuming a
dangerous dimension that should not be left to the
vagaries of time and circumstance to resolve.
Meanwhile, a group, Christian Brotherhood Association of
Nigeria, has condemned the gruesome murder of Mrs.
Eunice Olawale, during routine morning evangelism in
Kubwa, a suburb of Abuja on Saturday, describing it as
outrageous, barbaric, abominable and sadism of the worst
order.
The group in a statement by its President, Ayodele Sunday,
said it was appalling that Mrs. Elisha, who was also a
pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in the
area, could be slaughtered while preaching the gospel of
Jesus Christ.