CAN to take Boko Haram to ICC over crimes against Christians

Speaking at the opening of CAN’s National Executive Council Meeting (NEC) in Awka, Anambra State Wednesday, the National President of CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor said that Boko Haram has targeted Christians in attacks aimed at wiping out Christianity in the North and Nigeria entirely.

“We in CAN are strongly considering pressing charges against the Boko Haram sect for crimes committed against Christians at the International Criminal Court and we will commence soon. We are not encouraging Christians to carry arms,” he said. But he noted that CAN had always called on Christians and the churches to defend themselves.

He said: “We call on the governors of the southern states to come together and hold a meeting to know the fate of their people who are being killed in the North and to challenge their northern counterparts.”

According to him, without the measures put in place by the southern governors, there will be reprisal attacks everyday, arguing that the northern governors should put the same measures in place