The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto
Diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan-Kukah has blamed the woes of the country on the
shunning of politics by members of the Catholic Church.
He also called on Catholics who,
he said were natural community builders, to vote out bad government Kukah made
these remarks in Lagos yesterday, while delivering a speech on, “Family Value,
Human Right and the Challenges of Modernization In Nigeria”, at the 38th
Supreme Council Convention of the Order of the Knights of Saint Mulumba
Nigeria.
He noted that the Catholics’
non-participation in politics led to the killing of Christians in the northern
part of Nigeria, even as he blamed them for not visiting Christian victims of
the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
“The role of religion in restructuring
is much and yet we have not tapped into it. Right from time, Catholic Church
has always been helping the government to build and organise the society. The
church has always offered direction for the society. If Catholics are in
politics as Catholics and not using their ethnicity then they can have the
Catholic vote.
“Catholic needs to head this
country, even the Federal Government does not have the influence the Catholic
has and that has not been put to use to change things in the country. The voting
power the Catholics have in this country is enough to have the government
listen to their complaints, but since we don’t use it, we continue to feel the
pain of the thorns of the government policies,” Kukah said.
He attributed the deterioration
of the country to the rot in the family.
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