Abakaliki — Piqued by the tensions generated by the recent sectarian crisis allegedly caused by a group known as Boko Haram in some parts of the north, the East Central Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, (PCN) weekend in Abakaliki condemned the mayhem and urged the federal government to deploy strategies that would avert such wanton destruction of lives and property in future.
In a nine-point communiqué issued at the end of its 12th annual synod meeting at St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, Kpirikpiri-Abakaliki, and signed by the Synod moderator, Rev. A. N. Ukoha and Synod clerk, Rev. O.K. Ngele, the church maintained that the country is a secular state and as such should remain so in the interest of peace, unity and harmony. While expressing dismay at the level of carnage recorded by the one-week sectarian violence, especially the loss of several lives and destruction of properties worth millions of naira, the PCN noted that such crisis was capable of constituting a major threat to the unity and oneness of the Nigerian state and as such should be nipped in the bud by every patriotic Nigerian.
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