{"id":1425,"date":"2018-07-07T08:39:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T08:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2018-07-07T08:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T08:39:48","slug":"herdsmen-killings-can-suspends-nationwide-peaceful-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Herdsmen Killings: CAN Suspends Nationwide Peaceful Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) yesterday postponed its planned peaceful protest march slated for\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_955230322\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 11, 2018<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The planned protest was intended to press home CAN\u2019s anger and disappointment with government over its inability to stop the killings by alleged Fulani herdsmen.<\/p>\n<p>CAN President, Rev. Supo Ayokunle said: \u201cDue to some circumstances beyond our control. However, the three-Day Prayer and Fasting will still hold as scheduled for\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_955230323\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 9-11, 2018<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in all churches and state chapters of CAN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe church and denominational leaders will, however, still come to the National Christian Centre together with the National Executive Committee (NEC) of CAN on the\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_955230324\"><span class=\"aQJ\">11th of July at 10am<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to cry to God for our land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CAN had declared\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_955230325\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 9-11, 2018<\/span><\/span>\u00a0as National Days of Prayers and Fasting against unwarranted killings in the land and called on all well-meaning Nigerians, both within and outside the country, to join Christians for the peaceful protest against killings.<\/p>\n<p>Ayokunle further stated that \u201cCAN had hinged its decision on willful and persistent killings of fellow citizens in general and Christians in particular nationwide, and mostly in Plateau and Benue where mass burial has become the norm without any positive response from the country\u2019s security agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCAN had expressed gross concern and grave disappointment over the continuous killings despite al clarion calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to re-organise his security team by replacing all the security chiefs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) yesterday postponed its planned peaceful protest march slated for\u00a0July 11, 2018. The planned protest was intended to press home CAN\u2019s anger and disappointment with government over its inability to stop the killings by alleged Fulani herdsmen. CAN President, Rev. Supo Ayokunle said: \u201cDue to some circumstances beyond our control. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[352,1179,382,1178,1113],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-can","tag-herdsmen","tag-muhammadu-buhari","tag-nec","tag-protesters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}