Matthew Kukah, Catholic bishop of
Sokoto diocese, says it is only the use of bomb that differentiates the federal
government from Boko Haram insurgents.
According to PUNCH, Kukah said
this on Tuesday while speaking with Catholic Charity Aid to the Church in Need,
in the UK.
He was said to have spoken on the
killing of 10 Christians by the Islamic State West Africa Province on Christmas
eve.
The bishop reportedly accused the
government of using different methods to achieve the same goal of “Islamic
dominance like Boko Haram.”
He added that the federal
government had failed to tackle Boko Haram insurgency and has instead created
room for the group to operate as it is doing currently.
“The only difference between the
government and Boko Haram is (that) Boko Haram is holding a bomb,” Kukah was
quoted as saying.
“They are using the levers of
power to secure the supremacy of Islam, which then gives more weight to the
idea that it can be achieved by violence. With the situation in Nigeria, it is
hard to see the moral basis they have to defeat Boko Haram.
“They have created the conditions
to make it possible for Boko Haram to behave the way they are behaving.”
Kukah said if those in authority
do not do enough to integrate Christians, “then they give oxygen to Islamism.”
“If they have countries where
everybody is Muslim in power, then you give vent to the idea that Islam should
be supreme,” he added.
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