The Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, in the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Rev. Dr. Joseph Hayab, has levelled complicity in the kidnap of 177 persons while worshipping at ECWA Church and Cherubim and Seraphim Churches 1 and 2 at Kurmin Wali community in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Sunday at security officers.
Recall that the government and the police authorities earlier denied the occurrence of the mass abduction when the news broke framing it at as “fake news”.
Subsequently the police retracted themselves and confirmed that the kidnap took place.
To CAN, security operatives had a hand in the abduction.
The Chairman of the Christians’ body, Hayab, stated this in a statement credited to him in which he reportedly said operatives enabled the kidnap.
“If the security agents had gone after the bandits, they would have prevented them from taking the victims to where they are now hiding. Instead, the security agents only helped the bandits move the victims to a place where they could conceal them and make their demands.
“Had they pursued the attackers immediately, instead of arguing over whether anyone had, indeed, been kidnapped, they would have chased them away, whether they were right or wrong,” he was quoted as saying.
