{"id":135884,"date":"2023-12-31T17:54:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T17:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/31\/nigerians-now-believe-govt-cant-protect-them-kukah\/"},"modified":"2023-12-31T17:54:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T17:54:37","slug":"nigerians-now-believe-govt-cant-protect-them-kukah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/31\/nigerians-now-believe-govt-cant-protect-them-kukah\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nigerians Now Believe Govt Can\u2019t Protect Them&#8221; \u2013 Kukah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese of the Catholic Church, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has said that Nigerians are losing trust in the government to secure them.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the recent killings in Plateau State, in a statement on Saturday, Kukah said that there is a war being waged against the state and the people.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads: \u201cSadly, with time, Nigerians are gradually losing hope in the ability of their government to protect and secure them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose invisible men came to the Plateau again, bearing their gifts of death and destruction. They came from the deepest pit of hell, the habitat of the devils that they are. They are children of darkness, sons of Satan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey opted to extinguish and snatch the light of the joy of Christmas from thousands of people on the Plateau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey imagined they would ignite an orgy of blood, seduce the ordinary peace-loving people of the Plateau, and set them on a mission of mindless murder of fellow citizens in the name of retaliation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Feel Free To \u2018Japa\u2019 \u2014 Bishop Kukah To Nigerian Youths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world would then say that this was a war of religion \u2013 Christians killing Muslims \u2013 to ignite a larger war. So far, over two hundred lives are gone, and we are still counting, but what next, where next, and who next?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are gradually taking eerie solace in the fact that these killers do not respect the boundaries of religion, region, or ethnicity. 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