The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged the Military and Police to resist the temptation to intervene in the nationwide #EndSARS protest to avoid a harvest of deaths.
The CAN President, Dr. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, said on Monday in a statement he personally signed that the nation has had enough of mass burials without fighting a war in the recent past.
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According to him, the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has commended the youths who are advocating for the reform of the Police either through #EndSARS protests or Prayer Walks nationwide for embracing peaceful approach.
“We condemn every attempt being made to stop or disrupt the peaceful protest which is lawfully allowed and guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
We are monitoring the #EndSARS protests nationwide and we are praying that their unprecedented efforts to have a decent society will not be in vain.
“We call on the Military and Police to resist the temptation to intervene in a civil protest in order to avoid a harvest of deaths. We have had enough of mass burials without fighting a war in the recent past,” Ayokunle said.
He also has urged the Federal and state governments to walk their talk with a view to restoring the lost trust to the governed by immediate inauguration of Judicial or Quasi-Judicial panel with representatives of the Civil society at all levels with a view to bringing all the criminals in uniform to book.
“President Muhammadu Buhari should immediately send an Appropriation bill to the National Assembly for the compensation of all victims of the Police brutality and other extrajudicial killings in the last 10 years.
“Fresh recruitment into police should take background check of those being recruited into consideration so as to avoid recruiting criminals into the force as we had seen,” the CAN President said.
He added that semi-literates should never be recruited into the Police again, as well educated, morally and mentally sound people are good enough to wear police uniform in Nigeria.
He also urged the Inspector General of Police to suspend the implementation of the establishment of SWAT until sanity is restored to the Police.
Ayokunle said, “All the officers and rank and file who were members of SARS should be screened administratively to unmask the rotten eggs among them with a view to sanctioning them.”
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