The Christian Association of
Nigeria (CAN) has called on President Muhammdu Buhari to ask the Adamawa state
government not to implement the death sentence passed on five Christian youth
in the state.
The youth were convicted by an
Adamawa high court for “willfully and intentionally conspiring and attacking
three herdsmen rearing cattle at Kadamun village in Demsa local government
area, killing a herder in the process”.
Abdul-Azeez Waziri, the judge who
handled the case, sentenced the convicts to death for culpable homicide.
In a statement on Tuesday, Samson
Ayokunle, CAN president, identified the convicts as Alex Amos, Alheri Phanuel,
Holy Boniface, Jerry Gideon and Jari Sabagi.
He said while the association
does not support the killing, “hundreds of our members in southern Kaduna,
Benue, Taraba and Plateau states in the north-central geo-political zones, and
a state like Enugu in the south, have been killed.
The statement signed by Adebayo
Oladeji, spokesman to the CAN president, noted that Chrsitians are being killed
“on a daily basis” by suspected herdsmen who are “yet to be apprehended”.
“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,” Ayokunle added.
“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 did Nigeria police set free those
arrested for the murder of Mrs Eunice Elisha Olawale in Kubwa, Abuja.
“In view of this, CAN is calling
on President Buhari to intervene in the death sentence passed on these
Christian youths in Adamawa.”
Ayokunle said CAN has directed
its legal team to secure and study the text of the judgment with a view to
preventing “a miscarriage of justice and a future re-occurrence”
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