The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)
on Wednesday charged President Muhammadu Buhari to call his Special Assistant on New
Media, Lauretta Onochie, to order over her penchant for ‘’recklessness and
embarrassing character.’’
CAN's demand came on the heels of Onochie’s recent twitter
attack against CAN, accusing the body of spreading hate.
Onochie had twitted that "Prime Minister
Theresa May, a Christian, is in a mosque doing what humans go to do in a place
of worship; she knows that her God is the same one also called Allah. Christian
Association of Nigeria, CAN of worms, here's a great lesson in love and
godliness, not hatred and anger!"
Advising President Buhari to take action against
Onochie, the CAN President, Rev. Supo Ayokunle, explained that the association,
"at first, decided not to dignify her recklessness with a response,
thinking she may not be speaking for President Buhari, but the failure of the
presidency to call her to order is capable of making us to believe that she is
expressing the mind of the presidency, her employer.’’
The Christians group added that Onochie, from all
indications, shares a lot of things in common with the biblical Esau who sold
his birthright for a single meal, saying she is also like Eliab, who was not
ready to stand up against Goliath who had defied the God of Israel, but was
burning with anger at David, who would not allow Goliath to continue insulting
God and His people.
CAN added: "Instead of asking CAN leadership
to borrow a leaf from the British Prime Minister, Onochie should have directed
her advice to her principal to emulate his British counterpart, who gives all
the citizens under her watch a sense of belonging and adequate security,
irrespective of their religious, ethnic and political persuasions.
"Instead of being a liability to the Church in
the corridors of power, we counsel her to learn from the likes of Moses,
Esther, Daniel and the other three Hebrew children, who sacrificed their
conveniences and risked their influential opportunities to defend the interest
of God’s people against the imperial orders.’’
The religious group further stated that the problem
of “irritants like Onochie’’ in the corridors of power, is that the truth
cannot be buried forever, especially in today’s world where no government has
monopoly of the media with the emergence of the global technological
communication, especially the social media.
The Christians further explained that "the
world is aware of how Christians are being killed on a daily basis, while the
security agencies seem to be looking elsewhere. Instead of addressing these
failures by the government, its principal officers are justifying the crime
with sundry flimsy excuses; forgetting that the primary function of any serious
government is the protection of lives and property of the citizens.
"We advise this big-mouth social media aide to
employ decorum in performing her function, instead of acting like an urchin who
has strayed into the corridors of power. She is hereby advised to walk away
from the path trodden by Cain and stop embracing Balaam’s blunder for personal
profit.’’
CAN said it would never cease speaking truth to
power, irrespective of the unguarded utterances by Onochie.
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