Buhari Has Destroyed Nigeria – Bishop Kukah

 

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev Fr Mathew Hassan Kukah, has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari has divided Nigerians on the basis of ethnicity, religion, and region.

In his Easter message, the bishop said, “This carefully choreographed agenda” had made Nigerians vulnerable and ignited the most divisive form of identity consciousness of the people.

He said the level of destruction under Buhari had never been witnessed in the history of the nation.

 “Years of friendships, cultural exchange, and collaboration built over time have now come under serious pressure from stereotyping. Notwithstanding these challenges, religious leaders must recover and deploy their moral authority and avoid falling victim to the schemes of politicians and their material enticements,” he said.

Kukah accused the president of showing far greater commitment to integrating repentant terrorists than getting children back from kidnappers or keeping our universities open.

It speaks volumes when the president and his military hierarchy choose to believe these young men who took up arms and for years waged war against their country, killed, maimed and wasted thousands of lives, destroyed entire communities and now, they are being housed, fed, clothed with public funds.

“All this while their victims have been forced to make the various IDP camps their new homes! Where is the justice for the victims and the rest of the country they have destroyed?” he asked.

The bishop stated that the challenge of fixing Nigeria is enormous and requires joint efforts because everything in the country is literally broken down.

“Our country has become one big emergency national hospital with full occupancy. Our individual hearts are broken. Our family dreams are broken. Homes are broken. Churches, Mosques, and infrastructure are broken. 

 “Our educational system is broken. Our children’s lives and future are broken. Our politics is broken. Our economy is broken. Our energy system is broken. Our security system is broken. Our roads and rails are broken. Only corruption is alive and well,” he said.

Kukah said the greatest challenge is how to begin a process of reconstructing the nation beyond the 2023 elections.

“The next president of Nigeria must be a man or woman with a heart, a sense of empathy and a soul on fire that can set limits to what human indignities visited on citizens that he or she can tolerate.

“We have no need for any further empty messianic rhetoric laced with deceitful and grandiose religiousity.  We need someone who can fix our broken nation, rid our people of the looming dangers of hunger and destitution,” he said.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, could not be reached for comments on the allegations yesterday.

A text message sent to him by one of our correspondents was not replied as at the time of filing this report.