The president of
the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, 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 on
Sunday, October 16, 2016 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”.
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