The president, in a statement by Rev. Fr. Chris Anyanwu, Director of Communications, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, in Abuja yesterday, called on Nigerians to have a rethink with regards to wastage of human lives. Kaigama said taking human lives just because it suited ones religious, ethnic, political or even criminal aspirations was unjustifiable and should not be the practice in a civilised world. According to him, human lives are dignified and sacred and should not be sacrificed as if they are mere animal lives for pleasure or celebration. “How can human lives be so casually terminated with pictures of dead bodies, decapitated or disfigured corpses shown in the social media. “What is mind-boggling is the seeming insensitivity to the killings. Does it not trouble us that the international community is watching Nigeria with great apprehension. “The scriptures say that God created man and woman and asked them to increase and multiply and fill the earth, not to depopulate it by act of violence. “The manner lives are being taken right now in Southern Kaduna and many other troubled areas of our nation is tantamount to a declaration of war against helpless and innocent Nigerians.” He noted that people had rough and tough times when innocent Nigerians lost their lives as it was experienced in Agatu, Madagali, Gwoza, Yobe, Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and now Southern Kaduna. Kaigama said these impacted negatively on the younger generation growing with the impression that life was cheap and could be taken away at the whims of anyone or any group that so desired. The clergyman hailed the security agents and urged them not to see the weapons they were using as licence to molest those they were supposed to protect. He urged the Federal Government not to procrastinate in proffering well-thought out responses to act of savagery in the country.]]>