Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, head
of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to
reveal the names of Boko Haram sponsors.
The cleric described Nigeria as a
broken country decomposing from within while “lives are hemorrhaging by the
day”.
Kukah spoke at the priestly
ordination of five deacons at the Holy Family Cathedral. The church released
his sermon on Sunday, the weekend of Nigeria’s independence celebration.
The bishop lamented why the
Buhari administration was refusing to expose the names of Boko Haram sponsors.
In September, the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) published the names of six Nigerians prosecuted for Boko Haram
in a list of 53 individuals and entities.
The federal government’s position
that it knows terror financiers but won’t disclose identities has caused public
affairs analysts, media houses and citizens to charge world powers to
de-classify their intel.
Kuka said Nigeria cannot go on
the way it is as people have become so traumatised by horrible news that they
have become comfortable in “this swamp of evil”.
The government critic regrets how
life goes on in the country as the ongoing atrocities are normal.
“We have become experts at
burying the dead, but refuse to ask why the killings continue. We cannot
overstate the reality. It is clear that neither politics nor economic models
can fix the country”, PM News quoted him as saying.
The revered priest said the
political class is in a state of inebriation with the drug of power and loot.
“The federal government has told
us it is not ready to publicise the names of those funding Boko Haram. We
cannot go on like this. Questioning existential threats to humanity is the
apostolate that we Priests are called to.
“We know that this road is
dangerous, it is rocky, it is treacherous, it takes lives, but it is all too
familiar. The bodies and the emotions of men and women are irretrievably
broken.
“Our people, fleeing their homes
after over ten years have now turned refugee camps into their habitats. Our
identity as citizens is being traded for the status of migrants and refugees.”
Kukah further expressed dismay
about how the civic space in Nigeria is slowly closing, with citizens losing
ordinary freedoms to the crippling hands of totalitarianism.
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