Matthew Kukah, bishop of Catholic
diocese of Sokoto, says in Nigeria we evoke God to witness corruption and
“outright larceny.”
Kukah said this while speaking at
the convocation of Achievers University, Owo in Ondo state.
In his lecture entitled: “Some
reasons why Nigeria has failed to achieve greatness”, the bishop said the rest
of the world is making progress without evoking God.
“We are over 90 percent
Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, but there is nowhere in the world where
religion has become an incubus, a burden and source of dreadful violence as it
has in Nigeria,” NAN quoted him as saying.
“Our leaders are kneeling before
pastors and imams seeking blessings, while the rest of the world is moving on,
drawing inspiration from sweat, brains and brawn even without evoking God.
“We evoke God to witness to our
corruption and outright larceny.”
Kukah cautioned the federal
government against the planned regulation of social media, saying it could
hinder freedom of speech.
According to him, social media is
an avenue for Nigerians to bare their minds and feelings about happenings in
the country.
The bishop said he is ready to
defend freedom of speech with the last drop of his blood.
“I’m worried that many in power
don’t know the sacrifice[s] we made, the freedom we fought for,” he said.
Kukah explained that what is
holding Nigeria together is resources which he said were being used
irresponsibly by those who run the country.
“The main challenge is not of the
boundaries of geography but the spread of ideas and knowledge and, of course,
memory is a source of knowledge,” he said.
“We are angry, but we are not the
first group to be angry.”
He urged the country’s leaders to
invoke common emotions that could hold its citizens together as one.
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