Benue killings: ESOCS protests, calls for release of Chibok, Dapchi girls

Members of the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim (ESOCS), Yewa Provincial Headquarters, Ilaro, Ogun state recently staged a protest, following the incessant killings across Nigeria.
This is in response to the latest bloody incidents in Benue State, CAN declared what it tagged as a “National and International Sunday of Christian Protest,” to draw global attention to the general insecurity across the country.
In a press statement issued by the Provincial Secretary, Apostle Ekunola Gbenga, Elder ‘Biodun Sanyaolu who is the National Treasurer of OAIC and the National Director of CAN while addressing the gathering demanded for the release of Leah Sharibu, the young school girl abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State.
He also demanded for the release of the remaining Chibok school girls as well as all other Nigerians in captivity.
The National Director of CAN, therefore called on federal government under the leadership of President Mohamadu Buhari to act swiftly to put an end to the killings, he also advised the federal government to rise up and perform its constitutional responsibility of protecting citizens, adding that no excuse should be given for the wicked act adding that perpetrators should be brought to book.
Member of the ESOCS carried placards with different inscriptions: “Enough of Bloodshed in Nigeria,” “Enough of Unlawful Killings in the Country,’ “FG, Release Leah Sharibu from Bondage”, “FG, Stop Herdsmen Killings,’ ‘CAN reject FG’s poor handling of Insecurity’, among others.

 

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