Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah, claimed that Nigeria is the 9th worst country for Christians to live in the world.
He stated this while delivering an anniversary lecture at the flag-off ceremony of the 70th Anniversary, Logo and Mascot launch of the order of the Knights of Saint Mulumba, KSM Nigeria on Saturday, June 19.
Read Also: Akeredolu Visits Scene Of Owo Attack, Says He Is Terribly Sad
Kukah said toxic politics has poisoned religion in Nigeria and charged Christians to walk toward the barking dog.
In his words:
Now Nigeria is being ranked as the 9th worst country for Christians to live in. We are number nine and Iran is number eight, everywhere I go, people keep asking me what is happening to Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. Toxic politics has now poisoned our religion.
He stated that even though he is not a veterinarian, but he was told that when a dog is barking, you walk towards it because if you turn back, it would attack.
He, therefore, advised Christians to walk towards the barking dog.
According to Bishop Kukah, for the past three weeks his priest, a young man and a sister have been in captivity, stressing that the Nigerian state wants to pretend that negotiations with kidnappers don’t happen but in reality it does.
Read Also: Fulani Herdsmen Allegedly Invade Catholic Church In Owo, Ondo
He explained that his people were negotiating with the kidnappers as there is no other way to retrieve his priest and sister and that at the last conversation, the kidnappers have agreed to release the victims, if N20 million is paid but he does not have such monies anywhere.
Bishop Kukah lamented that it was a very painful experience that his own blood relations have been kidnapped, lost a Priest last year to kidnappers, lost a seminarian to kidnappers and somehow Nigerians like to pretend they have a government.
He said the kidnappers think it’s a chicken fee, adding that he is supposed to pay money to people who are murderers, who would murder anybody, and buying aeroplanes to kill people, referring to the Southern Kaduna attack last week.
