The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kaduna State has said that 24 hours to the exit of the Buhari-led Federal Government, 15 kidnapped Kaduna church worshippers were still in captivity.
Speaking with newsmen in Kaduna yesterday, the CAN Chairman, Kaduna State chapter, Rev. John Joseph Hayab, said 15 of the kidnapped church worshippers were still in captivity and nobody had even shown concern about how to get them out from the bus.
This is 3 Sundays, that is 3 weeks, 21 days, with over 40 worshippers that were abducted in Bege Baptist Church, Madallah, near Buruku, in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State,15 of them are still with the bandits.
All efforts to get the bandits to release them have not yielded any fruit. As I speak to you now, the bandits are still making huge demands. CAN is worried; CAN is disturbed, Rev Hayab stated.
Nobody has even shown concerned on how to get these people delivered to their respective families, he further lamented. Our appeal is either the outgoing government to use these last 24 hours to rescue our people and let them come back home. But if they fail, then our appeal to the new government is to come in with a new lease and ensure that these people do not last another 48 hours in the hands of the bandits.
Let it be their first primary assignment to deliver these church worshippers, return these church worshippers from Madallah.
This is sad; we cannot have a government and this evil go unchecked. We cannot have a government and citizens would suffer these kinds of pains in the hands of these evil people and the government is not doing anything, he stated.
