Boko Haram: Interrogate Governors That Introduced Sharia law, Kukah Tasks FG

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah has charged the Federal Government to interrogate those that Governors that introduced Sharia law in 1999, on the emergence of Boko Haram sect.

Speaking on the operations of the sect, he said they were contiguous with the areas where the Sharia declarations were made stressing that to create a much better, just and fair society, hypocrisy has to stop.

Kukah who was speaking in Abuja during his lecture presentation on “Optimising Public Relations Strategies for National Cohesion” at the 2019 Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) said that Nigeria’s politics is so regionalised, factionalised adding that whenever he looks at the map of the last elections, he doesn’t feel proud as a Nigerian.

Noting that it is now virtually impossible to travel from Sokoto to Zamfara by road because of insecurity in the country, Kukah recalled “in 1999, Sharia law was declared in Nigeria, and almost all the 19 northern states joyfully, exuberantly adopted Sharia.

“According to the principles of Sharia, we are supposed to be seeing joy, happiness and equity and so forth.

“Well, those who brought the Sharia should now tell us and Boko Haram and bandits have now taken over our country,” he added.

,Speaking on Nigeria’s politics, Kukah who said we are practising politics of very poor quality expressed concerns over the manner Nigerians voted along regional and ethnic lines in the last general elections and noted that if the trend persists, there might be no capacity for managing the nation’s diversity.

“That you have an election in which very clearly the country is divided into two and the lines are precise meaning what the north is saying and thinking is different from the south is saying and thinking is different from what the south is saying and thinking.

“They are not the reality they are perception. And if this is the kind of countries have, how do we develop the capacity to manage diversity,’ he lamented.

He also pointed that the nation has been so divided that even the appointments of universities Vice Chancellors are based on state of origin and religion.

Kuka also stated that t is now impossible for a southerner to become a Vice Chancellors in regions other than their own.

The clergy who also noted that Nigeria lacks clarity of vision and it is only in the country that people drive vehicles without navigational aids and there is no institution in Nigeria that has not been taken over by quacks, “including our politics. There is no institution you can blame in this country, everywhere.”

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