Catholic Church Backs Kukah, Says Bishop Spoke Truth To Power

The leadership of the Catholic Church in Nigeria has expressed
support for the position expresed by the Bishop of the Sokoto
Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah, on the state of the nation.

In a statement issued on Monday by the National Directorate of
Social Communications of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria in
Abuja, the church urged lovers of truth and justice to rise in
defence of Bishop Kukah against the attack on his person and the
attempt to discredit the simple obvious truth in his message.

Bishop Kukah had in his Christmas message to Nigerians lamented
the endless woes, which he said had befallen the country.

He further said that the prospects of a failed state stares
Nigeria in the face, with “endless bloodletting, a collapsing
economy, social anomie, domestic and community violence,
kidnappings, armed robberies” .

But what may have irritated those who attacked his message most
was where he said that every honest Nigerian knew that “there is no
way any non-Northern Muslim President could have done a fraction of
what President Buhari has done by his nepotism and gotten away with
it. There would have been a military coup a long time ago or we
would have been at war.”

However, in the statement titled, “A call in support of truth”,
the Church said the situation in Nigeria no longer allows anyone to
sit on the fence or show indifference.

“We are quite aware of the 2020 Christmas Message by our revered
Bishop Hassan Kukah and the enormous space it has enjoyed on social
media and in public sphere. As expected, the agents of evil have
gathered to attack the person of the Bishop and to discredit the
simple obvious truth of the message. This is the stock in trade of
evil people. However, they often succeed when good people,
Christians, choose to do nothing.

“I am therefore calling our attention to this new development so
that we can all rise in unison and stand for truth”.

The Catholic Church said that everyone must choose and stand up
for what he or she believed in.

Quoting a popular verse by St. Augustine, the Church said that
“evil is absence of good”, adding that people should add a voice in
support of goodness, in order to forestall the reign of evil.

“The truth about our nation is also that there are only two
parties now existing: the good and the evil, the oppressed and the
oppressor, the suffering people and the benefiting government
officers and their families.

Please stop allowing anyone fool you with these cards: religion
and tribe,” the church said.

The leadership of the Catholic Church in Nigeria has expressed
support for the position expresed by the Bishop of the Sokoto
Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah, on the state of the nation.

In a statement issued on Monday by the National Directorate of
Social Communications of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria in
Abuja, the church urged lovers of truth and justice to rise in
defence of Bishop Kukah against the attack on his person and the
attempt to discredit the simple obvious truth in his message.

Bishop Kukah had in his Christmas message to Nigerians lamented
the endless woes, which he said had befallen the country.

He further said that the prospects of a failed state stares
Nigeria in the face, with “endless bloodletting, a collapsing
economy, social anomie, domestic and community violence,
kidnappings, armed robberies” .

But what may have irritated those who attacked his message most
was where he said that every honest Nigerian knew that “there is no
way any non-Northern Muslim President could have done a fraction of
what President Buhari has done by his nepotism and gotten away with
it. There would have been a military coup a long time ago or we
would have been at war.”

However, in the statement titled, “A call in support of truth”,
the Church said the situation in Nigeria no longer allows anyone to
sit on the fence or show indifference.

“We are quite aware of the 2020 Christmas Message by our revered
Bishop Hassan Kukah and the enormous space it has enjoyed on social
media and in public sphere. As expected, the agents of evil have
gathered to attack the person of the Bishop and to discredit the
simple obvious truth of the message. This is the stock in trade of
evil people. However, they often succeed when good people,
Christians, choose to do nothing.

“I am therefore calling our attention to this new development so
that we can all rise in unison and stand for truth”.

The Catholic Church said that everyone must choose and stand up
for what he or she believed in.

Quoting a popular verse by St. Augustine, the Church said that
“evil is absence of good”, adding that people should add a voice in
support of goodness, in order to forestall the reign of evil.

“The truth about our nation is also that there are only two
parties now existing: the good and the evil, the oppressed and the
oppressor, the suffering people and the benefiting government
officers and their families.

Please stop allowing anyone fool you with these cards: religion
and tribe,” the church said.