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CHIBOK GIRLS: CAN Applauds the Federal Government, Rejoices with Parents
CHIBOK GIRLS: CAN Applauds the Federal Government, Rejoices with Parents
…Asks govt to secure the release of the remaining
girls
…Calls for a rehabilitation programme with CAN
…Advocates free education for the victims
The President of the Christian Association
of Nigeria, (CAN), Rev Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, on behalf of the
organization has commended the Federal Government for the breakthrough recorded
by getting 21 of the kidnapped Chibok girls released from the captivity of Boko
Haram insurgents.
Ayokunle, in a Press Statement issued and
signed by his spokesman, Bayo Oladeji, who described the news of their release
as great and pleasant since the beginning of the year assured the Federal
Government of CAN’ prayers to ensure everyone of the Chibok girls still in
captivity is released.
“It is one of the best news we have ever
received this year from the government as a nation. Let the government be aware
that CAN is with them in prayer in getting the rest of the girls released and
that they should leave no stone unturned in getting the rest that are still
alive released,” he said.
The leadership of CAN also rejoices with
the parents of the released girls and prays that the rest of the parents would
also have their children returned to them very soon.
“CAN rejoices with the parents of the released
girls and we are still praying that the parents of the remaining girls would
soon be reunited with their own very soon in Jesus name”.
The statement appeals to those holding the rest
of the girls captive to release them “because the Lord is God of freedom, not
captivity”.
Ayokunle also appeals to the Federal Government
not to just release the girls back to their parents but to organise a special
rehabilitation program in collaboration with CAN for the girls that would cover
their full integration into the society again.
“We ask the Federal Government not only to secure
their freedom and release them to their parents but to set up a special
rehabilitation program in collaboration with CAN for the girls that would cover
their full integration into the society again”.
The leadership of the CAN explained that its
involvement in the rehabilitation programme is imperative because “their innocence
and beliefs might have been compromised by the satanic and strange
indoctrination of their captors and this is where CAN will play a prominent
role since they are our children.”
The statement further calls on the Federal
Government to provide free education at all levels to everyone of them as part
of the integration programme and compensation for the unprecedented trauma and
ordeals they suffered from their captors.
According to him, “Securing their future through
free education to tertiary level should be part of the integration programme.
It is to compensate for the past failure of government in allowing the girls to
be kidnapped and kept in incarceration for too long”.
Signed
Pastor Bayo Oladeji, Media Assistant to
Rev Samson Olasupo A. Ayokunle, Ph.D
CAN President &
President, Nigerian Baptist Convention
08033346521
16 October, 2016
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