Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of SSokoto, Bishop Matthew Kukah
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Revd Matthew Kukah, has mentioned some determined politicians are turning the nation into a killing discipline forward of the 2019 elections.
Speaking with Daily Sun, Kukah lamented that politics had turn out to be a killing recreation in Nigeria.
He mentioned: “Politicians in Africa need energy in any respect value and they're going to go over oceans of blood and corpses to position poll containers to steal votes. Dead folks have had appointments in Nigeria.
“This is a unusual nation and except we get to a level the place human life is on the centre and defines the whole lot, each blood can solely function sacrificial providing for the ambitions of those that need energy in any respect value. But as I've mentioned and I repeat, who is aware of who will probably be right here in 2019?
“Ask these into whose palms our security lies. The Church has no military or any safety companies. The solely means we are able to defend life is to do what we did in Benue, generate sufficient sense of ethical revulsion, particularly provided that those that govern us appear to have different pursuits. It is a tragic most cancers of African management, this felony lack of take care of human beings whom the politicians promise to guard.
“If they cannot make comfortable as they themselves are, they can at least let our people live in peace. Many years ago, just before the civil war, during the Tiv riots, the Tor Tiv at the time said: ‘politics has spoilt our land.’ This is where we are now. Politics has become a killing game.”