The President of the Christian Association Of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has debunked the claims that poverty was the major cause for the emergence of the Boko Haram sect, that it was aggrieved bitter persons who lost their electoral bid that are responsible for the creation of the sect.
Saying this at the opening of a six-days meeting of the Niger Delta Christian Leaders Forum in Calabar, Cross River State, he said sponsors of the Islamic sect want to divide the country along the religious line.
Boko Haram is a fundamentalist Islamic religious group created and sponsored by selfish politicians, who want to create political space for themselves and in the vent of failure to achieve that, resort to dividing Nigeria along religious line, he further stated.
He said: “Boko Haram is fueled by extreme religious ideology and not poverty because they have not come out to tell us that they are killing people because they are poor or hungry.”
Oritsejafor said the claim that Boko Haram was a creation of poverty was a blatant lie by those sponsoring the organisation or its apologists just to mislead Nigerians and the world.
“The leader of Boko Harm is from a very wealthy family background and even that young man who wanted to blow up an American airline, his father was a retired Permanent Secretary and one of the richest men in Nigeria. The claim that the fundamentalist group was created by poverty is a false claim by its sponsors and apologists,” he said.
U ar talking sense bt i wil appreciate it mor if u mention there names.
Oritsjafor u ar liar nd a machinary to the western world helping them to destroy the country within,with ur unmannerd nd reasonable words.
Moh’d, it is idiots like you that make up Boko Haram. Your Sultan and Gumi are the biggest liars of all time!
with all due respect pastor, u shouldnt be d one to be used in overheating the polity for d benefit of politicians u support..u should be the one that tell the truth abt everything in d interest of peace not niger deltans, Boko Haram started before ur niger deltan brother became d president, the only person that makes dis ppl grow stronger was President Yaradua for extrajudicially killing dia leader which angers dem and make dem stronger with the help of d politicians from both south and north…ur utterances are not dat of a leader who want us to leave in peace since d beginning of jonathan’s campaighn, personally i was confuse wen palmplates were distributed to us dat should we both for muslims we are disowned by christianity which came from ur own office…we want the country to be divided too but not in ur own ways pastor, let it be peacefully….and u hav to show us that u are a leader that will protect all our interest rather than the interest of ur brother and dos in power….
Moh’d, it is idiots like you that make up Boko Haram. Your Sultan and Gumi are the biggest liars of all time!
Boko haram are nt muslims cos nigeriaans muslims already condemned them and their actions.
Your brother fomer NSA
(azazi)said it all, that boko haram was product of P.D.P members which Mr president is the leader! And he quickly sacked him,to avoid mentioning of names.
Make una name them
This from a thieving conman.OH sorry MAN OF GOD.
Wey dey hop up and down in jet plane while millons starve and die in filth and corruption.
MR PASTOR buy a space shuttle and fly to heaven and dont come back.
CLOWN.
Mr Oritsejiafor is alredy enjjoying the dividends of Boko Haran crisis, congrats for the new private jet, CAN is the instrument used to sustain the northern crisis that is why Mr Oritsejiafor always atood against the way to dialogue and resolution of the BH menace, a religious leader is known for piece making, but the activities of CAN president has shown that they are not for peace but war, CAN is the chief sponsor of Mohammed Yusuf (leader of BH) that is why they quickly killed him on arrest to avoid name calling, remember that evil iis a monster which consumes its perpetrators, uour end is at hand.