By Tiseer Agenawua
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, says a situation where northern governors meet in Kaduna or Abuja drinking tea and taking photographs without properly addressing religious problems tearing the North apart is unacceptable.
He said this in Yola at the commissioning of Sangere-Marghi Housing Estate, for Internally Displaced Persons displaced by Boko Haram.
Kukah said the governors should lead the religious leaders on the way out of the religious intolerance in the region.
He said: “They should not only be talking about dialogue with Bishops, Imams and Emirs sitting together and taking photographs and drinking tea as there are needs for concrete manifestation of ideas between one another.
“If the spirit of Islam and Christianity exist in Nigeria actually between members of the two Faiths, we will not be fighting, shedding as much blood as we are seeing today.
“Nigerians are too religious in paper and not in practice and this has made religion to be a liability to us. It is therefore important for both Christians and Muslims to appreciate what the Catholic Diocese of Yola has done today in bringing people of the two faiths dislodged by the Boko Haram under one umbrella.”
– Source: 21st Century Chronicle, April 13, 2021
