The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Thursday, faulted explanation by the Presidency on why states should adopt ranching.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina had said that people can only own lands when they were alive.
Adesina said this in connection to the challenge being faced by the government in acquiring land to build ranches for Fulani herdsmen.
Reacting, Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, spokesman to CAN President, Rev Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, in a statement, expressed the body’s disappointment on the “ungodly and unlawful counsel of the Presidency”.
He said: “This position is reprehensible, satanic, wicked and it shows how serious the government is to the protection of lives and property of the citizens.
“The only time such a directive was given was during the tyrannical leadership of Ahab when he killed Naboth who refused to let go of his inherited land to the greedy, wicked and the ungodly king. Although he succeeded in killing Naboth, but the wrath of God did not spare his family despite his remorsefulness.
“We call on all well-meaning Nigeria to rise up and speak against such a position. Those who use violence to take away what belongs to others are unfit to be called humans.
“It is worrisome that we have a government that has come out clearly to state that people under the threat of herdsmen’s killings must surrender their lands for ranching or continue to be killed.”
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