CAN PRESIDENT ORITSJAFOR, ASKS JONATHAN, OTHERS TO DONATE HALF OF THEIR SALARIES TO THE POOR

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Ayo Oritsejafor has called on President Goodluck Jonathan and other elected and appointed public office holders to give half of
their salaries for one year to unemployed youths.
Oritsejafor, who made the call at the National Christian Centre in Abuja recently during the...
53rd Independence Anniversary Interdenominati
onal Church Service, said this would build
confidence in the country.
"The unemployment situation is bad. The
situation is critical. People are jobless. I want to
make a suggestion; and in making the
suggestion, I want to look up to the heaven, that
probably if all political office holders, both elected
and appointed, will give half of their salaries for
one year and put it in a dedicated account for the
poor and let men and women of integrity run that
account, it will build confidence in the society,"
he said.
He also identified what he called terrible demonic
sacrifices allegedly made by some people for
wealth, political and spiritual powers as one of
the nation's problems.
Oritsejafor, who announced the presence in the
church of some of the victims of the Boko Haram
insurgency, said about 10,000 Nigerian refugees,
driven out of their country by what he described
as "mad men" are currently in Cameroon.
He commended the efforts of security agencies
and asked them to continue to collaborate to
fight terrorism.
Oritsejafor also commended the efforts of the
civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State
describing it a bold step and urging northern
leaders to do more to contain terrorism.
On the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU), he urged the union
and the Federal Government to shift their
grounds to end the strike saying the Christian
community, if allowed, is ready to "midwife" a
solution to the dispute.