Religious crisis: CAN wants Nigerians to carry arms
• Berates Yar'Adua, Jonathan over Bauchi violence
From Ofunu Idoko in Abuja, 02.24.2009

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) yesterdaydisclosed that it was  considering sending a bill that would allow  every  adult to carry arms as a way of checking unwarranted attacks to the National  Assembly.


The  body also took a swipe at what it called the non-challant attitude of President Umaru Musa Yar Adua and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to the violent  crisis in some parts of the North, asking  them to resign if they cannot proffer solutions to the problem.

Reviewing the religious crisis in Bauchi and the attendant death toll,   CAN  Secretary General,  Samuel S. Salifu , said at a news conference that it was passing a vote of no confidence on Yar'Adua and Jonathan  for their alleged inability to proffer solutions to the crisis.

CAN said it received the news of the killings in Bauchi over the weekend with deep pain and sorrow, adding that it was considering sending a bill to the National Assembly on gun ownership in the country.

“We met this morning and we are considering sending a bill to the National Assembly to facilitate adults who are twenty one years and above to make it legal to own arms and weapons.

“Everybody should buy his own gun, Right now,  as we are talking, they are still killing people in Bauchi. Where are the security people?" he said.

CAN said reports from  Bauchi State showed that about 11 Nigerians were burnt to death out of which six were christians while three were burnt beyond recognition. It said  12 churches and a mosque were burnt and several houses destroyed over the weekend in the mayhem.

According to the CAN  scribe, “over the weekend and even today (yesterday), we got the reports on the killings and we tried to reach on phone one of the Special Advisers to the Governor by name Adamu, who assured us that the situation was under control but thereafter I asked him to call me back but he didn’t up till now. We also tried to reach the Vice President on the situation but could not.

“ What bothers us most is that the president and vice president of this country have the responsibility of providing security for the citizens, The perception there fore to CAN is that the President and the Vice are very weak in tackling the situation”.

Because if these things happens in other parts of the world, in whatever  form, you find the president coming out to address the country.

“This is not the first time we have been having this in this country. We had it during Shagari time, he was a muslim too, but he talked on it,  so we don’t know why our present president is dumb and is saying nothing. As Christians with options , we are expecting the president to come out and condemn this act as soon as possible. Life is sacred and it must be respected. If he finds it very difficult, himself and his vice and they are not intending to take responsibility, then they should resign."


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It's time we show this people that we were not created for our muttons. I propose total massacre even if they are yet to start the riot.

Hug me I hug you

Kiss me I kiss you

Slap me I slap you

Bleep me I Bleep you!!!!!

News going round is that Iweka and Aba boys are trying to find out what the names of the roasted sound like.

Well, if the Northerners wont stop killing others in the South, then, they are inviting troubles.
If the Muslims could kill for jihad, i think the Christians should be able to kill for "bible"had as well.
So i guess now, i am throwing my full support behind fire for fire.
This nonsense gotta stop and since the govt are not willing to do something, then, let everyone protect themselves.
Besides sales of arms could make some people rich sef

With the proliferation of arms everywhere in Naija, it was only a matter of time before we descended into this kind of chaos.

Can you imagine right to bear arms in Naija? Minor traffic accidents and road rage would turn to homicide. Children would start shooting their parents for flogging them. Biafra would not need to raise funds to declare secession, everyone would just fall out into the street with their pre-owned firearms and start a war. If only to keep arms out of Biafra, this bill will never pass Congress.

St.Funmi:

It's time we show this people that we were not created for our muttons. I propose total massacre even if they are yet to start the riot.

are u willing to lead the line? are u willing to bear arms urself and draw the first blood? are you willing to start the massacre you proposed above?

News going round is that Iweka and Aba boys are trying to find out what the names of the roasted sound like.

If you let them get away with this one again, they'll try another in 2 months time. Enough is enough!

Well, if that is what it leads to, too bad then

are u willing to lead the line? are u willing to bear arms urself and draw the first blood? are you willing to start the massacre you proposed above?

Yes yes yes my lord.

St.Funmi:

Yes yes yes my lord.

start by booking ur one way ticket to nigeria. be sure to make it there by saturday so u'll get debriefed by sunday and by monday morning you'll be ready and start bringing/cutting people down.

Thousands displaced after Nigeria riots: police
17 hours ago

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AFP) — At least 4,500 people have been displaced by sectarian violence in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi which left 11 dead and 100 hospitalised, police said Tuesday.

"About 4,500 people have been displaced and they have been camped at two army barracks in the city", Bauchi police commissioner Adanaya Tallman Gaya told AFP after rioting between Muslims and Christians began on Saturday.

"We have recorded 11 deaths and 100 casualties in the two-day violence and our men have succeeded in making 30 arrests in connection with the disturbance", Gaya said.

The city was calm but tense on Tuesday. Troops were deployed there and seven neighbourhoods affected by the violence were under dusk-to-dawn curfew.

"The curfew is still in force, it will only be lifted when normalcy is fully restored and anybody who defies it will certainly be apprehended and prosecuted", Gaya said.

Over 200 houses, six churches and three mosques were torched, according to Bauchi Red Cross secretary Adamu Abubakar.

"We have been providing food items to the displaced but our tent supplies have been exhausted and many of the displaced sleep in the open," Abubakar said at the Shadawanka barracks where 3,000 people were sheltered.

"I'm still apprehensive and afraid to go back to my house because the situation is still tense and I can't risk my life and that of my family," said Yohanna Moses who fled to the barracks from his home.

Muslim youths went on a rampage Saturday, attacking Christians and burning churches. They said their acts were reprisals for the burning of two mosques overnight in the state capital Bauchi.

Tensions have risen in Bauchi, a city of four million, since February 13 when Pentecostal Christians barricaded a pathway used by Muslims attending Friday prayers at a nearby mosque, residents said.

Bauchi suffered bloody sectarian strife in 2004 when Muslim-Christian violence in the town of Tafawa Balewa, some 100 kilometres (62 miles) away, spilled over to the city, and houses, mosques and churches were burnt.

With the proliferation of arms everywhere in Naija, it was only a matter of time before we descended into this kind of chaos.

Can you imagine right to bear arms in Naija? Minor traffic accidents and road rage would turn to homicide. Children would start shooting their parents for flogging them. Biafra would not need to raise funds to declare secession, everyone would just fall out into the street with their pre-owned firearms and start a war. If only to keep arms out of Biafra, this bill will never pass Congress.

Who cares what Biafra does. We can't continue folding our arms while they keep massacring us.

must_a_far:

start by booking ur one way ticket to nigeria. be sure to make it there by saturday so u'll get debriefed by sunday and by monday morning you'll be ready and start bringing/cutting people down.

u seems to be missing the point, or u agree with how other tribe and religion are being killed?

start by booking ur one way ticket to nigeria. be sure to make it there by saturday so u'll get debriefed by sunday and by monday morning you'll be ready and start bringing/cutting people down.

Haba, dem never pass the law na. Cool down my lord.

nigeria shld divide

St.Funmi:

Haba, dem never pass the law na. Cool down my lord.

is the law meant to make ur massacre legal or something?

nigeria shld divide

For real. To your tents O Nigeria. What shall we do to the mixed states like Kogi or Kwara?

is the law meant to make ur massacre legal or something?

Yes yes yes my lord.

Fhemmmy:

Well, if the Northerners wont stop killing others in the South, then, they are inviting troubles.
If the Muslims could kill for jihad, i think the Christians should be able to kill for "bible"had as well.
So i guess now, i am throwing my full support behind fire for fire.
This nonsense gotta stop and since the govt are not willing to do something, then, let everyone protect themselves.
Besides sales of arms could make some people rich sef

From the much I know about the Bible, it does not support such retaliatory killing of any form.
This call by CAN is not about defending the Bible or Christ (cos both never asked for such), its about poor innocent people defending themselves from morons.

must_a_far:

are u willing to lead the line?

As she is a proud Yoruba lady, I cannot speak for her , but you have to believe that thousands are already willing to lead the line this time around from Iweka bridge.

must_a_far:

are u willing to bear arms urself and draw the first blood? are you willing to start the massacre you proposed above?

The jihadist up north started the massacre/genocide first.

St.Funmi:

If you let them get away with this one again, they'll try another in 2 months time. Enough is enough!

Watch out!!!

From the much I know about the Bible, it does not support such retaliatory killing of any form.
This call by CAN is not about defending the Bible or Christ (cos both never asked for such), its about poor innocent people defending themselves from morons.

Exactly!

With those illetrates all over the northern states, what do you expect? they have the war torn IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN as their role model, they are always happy killing people

With those illetrates all over the northern states, what do you expect? they have the war torn IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN as their role model, they are always happy killing people

Don't they have illiterates in the south?. May be southern area boys and almajiris  have college degrees.

No, i do not support the arms proposition unless they want UN to declare Nigeria a state of emergency. Common NL arguement, some people will draw their guns and shoot, how much less a face to face fiasco.

honeric01:

With those illetrates all over the northern states, what do you expect? they have the war torn IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN as their role model, they are always happy killing people

That is what they want you to believe about the genocides up north;

1. Was political

2. Carried out by illiterates.

All are big fat lies. . . .

Hmmmnnnnnn

nuzo:

From the much I know about the Bible, it does not support such retaliatory killing of any form.
This call by CAN is not about defending the Bible or Christ (cos both never asked for such), its about poor innocent people defending themselves from morons.

As she is a proud Yoruba lady, I cannot speak for her , but you have to believe that thousands are already willing to lead the line this time around from Iweka bridge.

The jihadist up north started the massacre/genocide first.

Watch out!!!

well, there has to be a stop one way or the other to all the nonsense of the Muslims and the northerners, if they blv we one Nigerians, they need to accommodate other's religion, else, gimme my AK47 and let us rambo

That is what they want you to believe about the genocides up north;

1. Was political

2. Carried out by illiterates.

All are big fat lies. . .

I don't know whom they believe they graduate from those universities up north. They have illiterates just like we have ours. same way they have academicians just like we do. It's like Oyibos thinking we live on trees because they are yet to come to our land.

Aloy.Emeka:

I don't know whom they believe they graduate from those universities up north. They have illiterates just like we have ours. same way they have academicians just like we do. It's like Oyibos thinking we live on trees because they are yet to come to our land.

What has graduate gotta do with this?
Also, even an illetrate knows that killing others cos u dont agree on same stuff is bad and should be punishable under law, and since the law wont protect the people, everyone to their own.

kai I don suffer

What has graduate gotta do with this?
Also, even an illetrate knows that killing others cos u dont agree on same stuff is bad and should be punishable under law, and since the law wont protect the people, everyone to their own.

My argument is accusing them of doing it because they are a bunch of illiterates. I want us to purge that notion from our mind.

How come the only response we re getting from our dear Jihad protagonists are:

"I don confuse"

"Hmmmm"

Aint they gonna condemn this ignominious?

Talk of double standard.

Xavier.:

How come the only response we re getting from our dear Jihad protagonists are:

"I don confuse"

"Hmmmm"

Aint they gonna condemn this ignominious?

Talk of double standard.

The Nation has to get it together, imagine the leader of the state and of the nation doing nothing about the situation. Shameful goats, so all they saying is, y'all shd protect yourself, so fire for thunder

and no one is talking about the fact that it was this whole thing was started when a Muslim group protested against the citing of a mosque by a different Muslim sect in their neighborhood and that the burning of the mosque was done by one Muslim sect to another.
How did these bloody Islamists turn to Churches?
Why can't they face themselves and kill off their different sects than turning to Christians whenever they have problems with their own?
Islam is a cancer and it's been proven over and over again.
They are incapable of living in peace with anyone.
Once it doesn't go their way,they turn into bloody arabs on a caravan.
let them kill themselves and leave us alone