[NEWS] BOKO HARAM PLANS JIHAD ON CHRISTIANS, S-EAST CAN ALLEGES

THE Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, South
East zone, yesterday alleged that the Northern
Islamist sect, Boko Haram and its sponsors had
concluded plans to declare a Jihad against the
Southern part of the country with the deployment
of over 6,000 fundamentalists to the South to
prosecute the war.
The association also claimed that part of the plot
for the mass killing of Christians in the South
was the alleged importation of a poisonous
powder which Hausa suya sellers would use to
poison the meat they sell as part of the Jihad,
warning the people of the South to be careful
about eating suya henceforth.
Chairman of CAN in the zone and Anglican
Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Bishop Emmanuel
Chukwuma, who raised the alarm at a briefing
after the meeting of the association at All Saint’s
Cathedral, Enugu, condemned the Sunday
bombings of churches which claimed over 40
lives, saying it had on good authority that it had
declared war on Christians as part of the agenda
to Islamize Nigeria.
He said: “We have information and documents to
show that this is a Jihad being sponsored and we
have our documents to show where they have
dispatched 2,000 people to prepare for Jihad to
South East, 2,500 to South-South and about
2,000 to South West.
The names of those who are sponsoring this are
in our hand now. So, it is a form of Jihad to
make sure that Nigeria is frustrated and islamized
and we are saying we are going to resist it, we
are prepared to resist and they will not succeed.
We have our information because there is already
a Boko Haramist that was converted and has
leaked most of these secrets to us and we have
our document and information. So at the
appropriate time we shall strike and we are
waiting for them.”
“We are warning our people to be careful of
suya because we have now heard that they will
start poisoning people through suya. They know
the suya they give themselves in the North and
suya they give to the people in the South. So
people should be careful of suya.
That is part of the information available to us
now. There is a powder that is now being
imported which they will spread on suya and
after two weeks it will start eating your liver and
other organs. We have gotten that information
also.
The press should let the people know because
when people start dying because of eating of
suya don’t say I did not say as Bishop
Chukwuma. I am telling you this because we have
our information. As Sultan of Sokoto told our
youths that he has a way of collecting
information, Bishop Chukwuma also has a way of
collecting information from the Muslims.
Let the Sultan hear that because he told our
youths the other day that everything that is
happening, he has a way of obtaining
information, I too have a way of collecting my
information and we are ready to match force with
force right now.”
Expressing disappointment and dismay in the
security agencies, Bishop Chukwuma lamented that
it was disturbing that they could not put in place
measure to forestall the bombing of churches
which had reoccurred every Sunday.
“Are Christians no longer free to worship God on
Sundays? What are the security operatives doing
on Sundays when they know that Sundays have
become a target to bomb Christians? What is the
Inspector General of Police doing? Is changing of
uniform the reformation that we want or action to
make what is happening in the North to be
stampeded and stopped. Again, what are the
members of the House of Representatives and
Senate doing to promulgate law that will sanction
those perpetrating this evil?
“We call on the Federal Government to step up a
serious security strategy that will protect lives and
property of Christians in the north to avoid a
volatile action from Christians in the South. We
also want to put an alert that Christians in the
South are ready to face them squarely because
we heard that they have infiltrated this place,
especially Enugu. We are prepared for war-
physically and spiritually against any form of
attack on the church. Time has come for reprisal
because nobody can stop us from worshiping our
God”, the South East CAN leader said.
He expressed regret that in spite of the huge
budgetary allocation on security, the bombings
have continued, stressing ‘where is the high
budgetary allocation on security, where are they
spending the money? It means that corruption has
become part of it.”
Bishop Chukwuma, however, declared that
Christians were fully prepared for war “physically
and spiritually” to defend themselves against any
attack on churches and worshipers anywhere,
declaring that “nobody will stop us because the
time has come for reprisal.”