The Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN), has said that the internet shutdown in Kaduna State gives the wrong impression that everything was calm, noting “Kaduna is not”.
CAN also observed that democratic governance is about securing people and giving them rights and not necessarily about building bridges.
The association alleged that many of their members were either kidnapped or killed in Kaduna State, but a conspiracy of silence would not allow the world to know.
Speaking during an interview on a television programme, the Vice-President of CAN in the North, Rev. Joseph John Hayab, said “That’s why anytime you hear us challenging the government, challenging security agencies, not that we don’t appreciate what they are doing.
“We are only saying: look, you’re not doing it for good results. You are, instead, doing it to protect and give criminals cover. Work with all of us so that we would get the result. The peace of Nigeria is my peace. It’s the peace of my family, the peace of my children. We are not born to be anybody’s enemy. We are simply saying do the right thing.
“I’ve enumerated to you the days and places that people were abducted, within the last one and a half month. But because they’ve shut down the internet, the impression is that nothing is happening and that Kaduna is calm. Kaduna is not (calm).
“I’ve given you figures. If I give you added them, you’ll find out that from October 3 to today, bandits have abducted no fewer than 200″.
“The impression is ‘now just because they attacked people on Abuja Road, that’s why people are knowing that bad things are still happening’. But, bad things have been happening around and nobody is talking”, he lamented.
