The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, raised the alarm at a media briefing on Thursday in Abuja
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Buhari made the submission in an article published in Christianity Today, a magazine, on the death of Lawan Andimi, the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State
While the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, led the prayer walk of the church in Lagos, the President of CAN, Supo Ayokunle, was in Oyo State for the same purpose
I did not know Pastor Andimi personally. Yet Nigerians and I both know him and his church by their works: healing, caring, feeding and educating, particularly in the northeastern regions of my country — in those areas threatened for too long by terrorists
Bakare said this in Sunday in a speech he delivered during the church’s service at its headquarters in Lagos
It was very sad and doleful to hear of the eventual beheading of Rev. Lawan Andimi, Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Michika Local Government Area, Adamawa State. He had been abducted by terrorists earlier this month.
The National Publicity Secretary of ACF, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim, in a statement equally appealed to the Federal and State Governments to fish out perpetrators of the dastardly act and bring them to justice.
The Northern Governors Forum has condemned the killing of Rev. Lawan Andimi, the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, by the Boko Haram terrorists, describing it as a sad and disturbing event.
The MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in a statement issued and signed in Lagos on Wednesday, said anyone who kills innocent people does not represent Islam.
In his reaction to the incident on Tuesday, President Buhari expressed sorrow that the terrorists went on to kill the religious leader while giving signals at the same of a willingness to set him free by releasing him to third parties.
The news was broken on Tuesday by veteran journalist Ahmad Salkida