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 yesterday during the 53rd Independence Anniversary Interdenominational 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.
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