President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Ayo Oritsejafor
has called on President Goodluck Jonathan and other elected and
appointed public office holders to give half of their salaries for one
year to unemployed youths. Oritsejafor,
who made the call at the National Christian Centre in Abuja yesterday
during the 53rd Independence Anniversary Interdenominational Church
Service, said this would build confidence in the country. “The
unemployment situation is bad. The situation is critical.
People are
jobless. I want to make a suggestion; and in making the suggestion, I
want to look up to the heaven, that probably if all political office
holders, both elected and appointed, will give half of their salaries
for one year and put it in a dedicated account for the poor and let men
and women of integrity run that account, it will build confidence in the
society,” he said. He
also identified what he called terrible demonic sacrifices allegedly
made by some people for wealth, political and spiritual powers as one of
the nation’s problems. Oritsejafor,
who announced the presence in the church of some of the victims of the
Boko Haram insurgency, said about 10,000 Nigerian refugees, driven out
of their country by what he described as “mad men” are currently in
Cameroon. He commended the efforts of security agencies and asked them to continue to collaborate to fight terrorism. Oritsejafor
also commended the efforts of the civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) in
Borno State describing it a bold step and urging northern leaders to do
more to contain terrorism. On
the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU),
he urged the union and the Federal Government to shift their grounds to
end the strike saying the Christian community, if allowed, is ready to
“midwife” a solution to the dispute.
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