The
leadership of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria has accused the
President of Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, of
smearing the image of the body, saying it was wrong for his private plane to be
associated with the controversial arms deal in South Africa.
The
Bishops said military aircrafts could have been conveniently used for that
purpose.
Speaking on the BBC
Hausa service on Wednesday, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and
President of CBCN, said they had been watching with “sadness how Oristejafor
had been hobnobbing with the Presidency for long,” and accused the CAN chief of
dragging Christianity into the mud.
He faulted the way and
manner Oritsejafor has been running CAN and urged the relevant authorities to
investigate the matter dispassionately and ensure that those found guilty were
punished.
“It is not proper, the
guilty must be punished. It is not acceptable for a Christian leader to be seen
always with the President. We in the Catholic have always picked holes in
Oritsejafor’s style of leadership in CAN and we even wanted to stop attending
CAN meetings at the national level,” he said.
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