FG MUST NAME SPONSORS OF TERRORISM IN NIGERIA - KUKAH

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mattew Hassan Kukah has dared President Muhamad Buhari and the Federal Government to name the sponsors of insurgency in the country. 

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The revered cleric said this yesterday at the Priestly ordination of five deacons at the Holy Family Cathedral. The cleric described Nigeria as a broken country decomposing from within while “Lives are hemorrhaging by the day”

The Bishop wondered why the Buhari administration was refusing to publicise the names of Boko Haram sponsors, despite the fact that United Arab Emirates(UAE) recently released some names of persons sponsoring terrorism in Nigeria in mid September. These include Abdurrahaman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad.

Federal Government’s position is that it knows terror financiers but will not disclose their identities. This position obviously caused a stir with public affairs analysts, media houses, citizens and other stake holders.

Bishop Kukah expressed his sadness at what he described as the new Nigerian reality of constant and avoidable loss of lives and property. He said Nigeria cannot continue the way it is as people have become so traumatised by horrible news that they have become comfortable in what he called: “This swamp of evil”.

“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”. 

“The Federal Government has told us that 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.”

The Bishop also regrettably noted that the civic space in Nigeria is slowly but steadily being eroded by a totalitarian Government that is obviously unable and unwilling to accommodate any dissenting view. 

He warned that the Federal Government's tendency for authoritarianism is nothing but a recipe for disaster.

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