Daniel Okoh, President of Christians Association of Nigeria(CAN), has urged Northeast regional leaders to speak out against injustice in the wake of insecurity and hunger currently bedevilling the country.
Okoh, speaking at an event organized to inaugurate newly-elected Northeast CAN Executive members held in Maiduguri on Tuesday,
noted that the leaders at all levels must put aside their personal interests and come together to rescue the nation.
Okoh, who was represented by Ozumba Emmanuel, National Director of Education Youths and Women CAN, decried that Northeast region and the entire nation were being faced with untold crises due to Boko Haram terrorists, banditry and economic hardship.
“Today Nigeria has been bedevilled by many challenges of insecurity that have brought many setbacks and Northeast has been the most worse hit by the crisis. Today insecurity is now a general thing everywhere and we as Christians must ensure we preach peaceful coexistence in respective of our religions, beliefs, tribes and ethnicity.
“I urge the leaders to put aside personal interests and work together to restore peace, peace is not one man affair, it is an affair that everybody must be involved in. There is no good leadership without good followership; when the people are hungry they can’t be able to understand the government. So we leaders should work in the interests of the common man.
“I urge the new zonal executives to be united and fight for justice, justice doesn’t require you are fighting for your religion, it means when you are fighting justice for the interest of the common man, today we need voices, we need men that are courageous enough to speak about the injustice that is going on in our nation, and we need people who will speak to power. To point out the area where the government need to improve on welfare and development the society”, he said.
