Rev. Kukah Berates FG Says, FG Using Different Methods To Achieve The Same Goal Of Islamic Dominance

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, has berated the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, stressing that his adminstration was using different methods to achieve the same goal of Islamic dominance in the country.

Kukah also lamented the incessant killing of Christians by the deadly terrorist group Boko Haram adding that, the federal government was not different from the deadly set.

He described the Nigerian government as “Islamic fundamentalists without bombs,” adding that, “the only difference between the government and Boko Haram is that Boko Haram is holding a bomb.”

The Director of Social Communication, DDSC, Rev. Fr. Chris Omotosho, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri.

Kukah, who was particularly irked by the Christmas Day attack by loyalists of Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, as well as an attack by Boko Haram terrorists on Christmas Eve, also expressed disgust with the Federal Government, when he spoke to members of Catholic Charity Aid to the Church in Need.

Bishop Kukah also accused the Federal Government of “using the levers of power to secure the supremacy of Islam, which then gives more weight to the idea that it can be achieved by violence.”

His words: “They have created the conditions to make it possible for Boko Haram to behave the way they are behaving. On Boxing Day 2019, ISWAP released a video beheading 10 Christians and shooting one Muslim, saying they were avenging the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghadi, Daesh, ISIS leader, and other senior Daesh members killed during a US raid in October.”

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Bishop Kukah recalled with grief that the beheading of the 10 Christians followed a Christmas eve attack by Boko Haram, in which seven were killed in coldblood, adding that the United Nations estimated that over 2.2 million people have been displaced by Boko Haram’s actions between 2013 and 2015.

The cleric fumed that more than 11,000 innocent people were killed by the rampaging Islamist group.

It was the considered opinion of the Bishop that “the Nigerian government, by packing key government positions with hardline Muslims, gives tacit approval to such groups.

“If the people in power don’t do enough to integrate Christians, then they give oxygen to Islamism. If they have countries where everybody in power is Muslim, then you give vent to the idea that Islam should be supreme.”