Cardinal John Onaiyekan
Catholic Archbishop of Abuja John Cardinal Onaiyekan has known as on President Muhammadu Buhari to fish out and prosecute the perpetrators of the Plateau bloodbath.
Scores had been left useless final week after suspected herdsmen attacked some communities in Plateau state.
Speaking on the event, the clergyman famous that the management of the nation has failed as nobody believes them anymore.
“Two hundred people dying is too many in a country that claims not to be at war. Nobody else in the world will believe that such a thing can happen without a government knowing who they [perpetrators] are,” he advised Sun News.
“And I do hope that our rulers know that no person believes them anymore. Nobody believes them anymore, as a result of it’s not potential that 200 individuals could be massacred with no person seeing them, nobody arrested or no person known as to order. It saddens my coronary heart. Now, that is a very typical case.
“Whether these killed had been Christians or Muslims, that’s not the problem. That 200 human lives had been destroyed is the purpose right here. Similarly, I don’t actually care about identities of those that are killing; however whoever they're, they need to be stopped and they need to be prosecuted.
“Nigeria, we’ve turned elections into disaster. Nigerians don’t know, for instance, that in different international locations you get up within the morning, you go and vote and return to work – even authorities officers.
“Schools keep running; teachers just leave classrooms and move to election centres and go back to class. No police sirens, no soldiers everywhere.”