Kukah to Tinubu: Nigeria is reaching a breaking point… bring us down from cross of evil

Matthew  Kukah, the archbishop of Sokoto, has called on President Bola Tinubu to save Nigeria from the cross of pain, hunger and mitigate the economic crises citizens are facing. 

In an Easter statement issued on Sunday, Kukah urged the federal government under the leadership of Tinubu “to secure Nigerians from marauders, murderers, savages and ravenous predators who are threatening to overrun our nation”.

Kukah also cautioned the government on the sharing of  palliatives to Nigerians to cushion the impact of the economic hardship, which he noted diminishes the dignity of citizens.

“For over ten years now, farming has become one of the most hazardous pre-occupations in our country,” the Catholic priest said.

“I restate the obvious by warning that mere palliative distribution. We have remained between the rock of self-doubt and the hard place of hopelessness.

“Make food security a fundamental human right for all citizens. Mr. President, please bring us down from this painful cross of hunger.”

The cleric recommended that the government should make food security a fundamental human right to all citizens, and called on the president to “please bring us down from this painful cross of hunger.”

He alleged that bandits, who were introduced to the nation as a means of overthrowing the current administration and seizing power, have ingrained themselves into every aspect of Nigerian life, murdering individuals and ruining towns.

“These sufferings have been marked by a culture of brutality and savagery never witnessed in the history of our dear country,” he said.

“Taken together, they have placed our country outside the purveyor of human civilization.

“Across the entire country, every day, innocent citizens are kidnapped and held under the most inhuman conditions.

“A dark pall of death hangs languidly from north to south. It is impossible to find a home, a family, or a community that has not been caught in the cusp of this savagery.

“Now, Mr. President, Nigeria is reaching a breaking point. The nation is gradually becoming a huge national morgue.

“Some years back, some of our public officers confessed that they brought our current killers into our country as a strategy for upstaging the government of the day and to gain power.

“Strange as it may sound, today we have watched as the cancer of insecurity and violence has metastasised. Now, this cancer threatens the very foundation of our common humanity.

“The bandits have not only become embedded in every sphere of our lives, but they threaten to destroy all that holds our communities together.

“This self-destructive cancer has invaded our communities and kidnapping is a now a dog whistle for undermining the very structure and foundation of our country.

“We now hang on the cross at the mercy of these forces of darkness. Mr. President, please, bring us down from this cross of insecurity.”