- In a statement on Sunday, the State CAN Chairman, Rev. John Joseph Hayab, said that the killings were too frequent and that the government’s lack of care was “disappointing and disgusting.”
The federal and state governments, according to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State, have been accused of remaining silent while Islamic terrorists dressing as bandits slaughter Christians in the state.
In a statement on Sunday, the State CAN Chairman, Rev. John Joseph Hayab, said that the killings were too frequent and that the government’s lack of care was “disappointing and disgusting.”
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“The bandits are now hardened and brutal. They are killing without mercy and the rate at which they have turned on the Church in Kaduna State and Nigeria is alarming and worrisome,” he said.
He added, “The last three weekends have all been periods of mourning and anguish from our communities to the church.”
He lamented the killing of Rev Fr Vitus Borogo on his farm on Saturday.
Borogo, 50, was killed at Prison Farm, Kujama, along Kaduna-Kachia Road, following a raid on the farm by terrorists.
The deceased priest was the Chaplain of the Catholic Community of the Kaduna State Polytechnic, and the Chairman of the Nigerian Catholic Diocesan Priests Association (NCDPA), Kaduna Chapter.
