BREAKING NEWS; Boko Haram Kill CAN’s Borno Secretary Minutes After GEJ's Broadcast

Barely 30 minutes after President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Borno State alongside two other states because of terrorism, the Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), in the state, Reverend Faye Pama Musa has been shot dead inside his Maiduguri residence by members of the radical Islamic group, the Boko Haram

Security sources that Musa, the head pastor of a Pentecostal church in Maiduguri, was trailed to his GRA residence by two gunmen who shot him at close range at about 7.30pm.

The headquarters of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has confirmed the murder of Reverend Musa.

Describing the killing of its Secretary in Borno State as “sad”, Kenny Asaka, the media aide to the National President of CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, sad the President received the news with a “heavy heart.”