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The Christian Association of Nigeria has opposed President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to rule out compensation for Boko Haram’s victims.
The General Secretary of CAN, Dr. Musa Asake, said this while reacting to President Jonathan’s decision not to pay compensation to Boko Haram victims, when he received the report of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North on Tuesday.
He said the association had not changed its position on compensation for victims of the insurgency.
The sect had killed about 3,000 people since 2009. CAN had in April said that over 200 churches had been burnt and 1,250 Christians killed by the sect in the last three years.
Faulting the President, Asake said, “We still stand by our demand that victims of Boko Haram attacks should be compensated. We are not changing. There are some times when you look for something, it’s either you get it or you don’t get it.
“But our position that victims of Boko Haram attacks should be compensated is not changing. If the President is saying that victims should not be compensated, he needs to explain to Nigerians why he is saying so.”
He wondered why the government was insensitive to the suffering of the victims.
Asake added, “We don’t believe in the amnesty committee. Has there been dialogue with Boko Haram members?”
But the National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Northern socio-cultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum, Mr. Anthony Sani, in an SMS to one of our correspondents in Kaduna, supported Jonathan.
He, however, noted that the issue of compensation should be approached with caution.
Sani said, “I have not read the committee’s recommendations but I can understand Mr. President’s predicament about compensation to victims of Boko Haram. This is because there have been victims of ethno-religious crises; of communal clashes; of armed robbery, and of kidnappings as well as of baby factory and piracy who have not been compensated.”
- Tribune
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