Against the background of current fight against graft by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called for proper utilisation of funds recovered from corrupt leaders.

 Speaking with journalists before commencement of the 103rd annual convention of the Nigerian Baptist Convention in Ilorin at the weekend, the Vice President of the association, Rev Samson Ayokunle, said that such recovered funds should be channelled towards revamping productive sector of the economy in order to add value to life of common man.

 Reverend Ayokunle, who doubles as the President of the Nigerian Baptist Convention also commended efforts made so far by the Federal Government at recovering such amount of money in its fight against corruption.

Reverend Ayokunle also urged the Federal Government to frontally address epileptic power supply and distribution in the nation, saying, "it has of recent become more erratic and we want this to be addressed as much as possible because power is very important for social and economic development.

"Equally, we thank the Federal Government for trying to address the scarcity of petrol. In the first instance, we should have nothing to do with scarcity of petrol in this nation. If leadership had been forthright, we don’t need to import petrol from abroad; but refine in order to get jobs for people and make it plentifully available in the country. Whatsoever can be done to make sure that the few refineries that we have are working should be done.

 "Also, our roads are crying for rehabilitation and many lives are being lost because of our failure and not because God wants them to die. We want the government to rise up and rehabilitate our roads so that there can be smooth transportation of Gods and services”, he said.

 The Baptist president, who urged President Muhammadu Buhari to put machinery in motion to recover over 200 Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists over two years ago in Borno State, blamed immediate past administration for not doing enough to promptly rescue the school girls.

 “Government has not done enough especially the Jonathan administration in rescuing the over 200 Chibok girls. It took them quite some time to believe that the girls were abducted. This gave the abductors opportunity to carry them far into where it would be difficult to rescue them.

“The security people could not also pursue them whole-heartedly because they were ill-equipped. Government should do more to locate these girls. In fact, none of those in government should be able to sleep until they put machinery in motion to get the girls out of captivity.

 “It could be anybody’s child. And to hear that the girls are still alive is a product of answered prayers because the prayer of those people that know that there is a God that answers prayers, God has decided to give us ray of hope that the girls are still alive.

“We appreciate government’s efforts in confronting the security challenges in the country especially the Boko Haram palaver.

 “We want the government to do more and to bring back those innocent Chibok girls who trusted the government for their protection, but were forcefully taken away about two years ago.”