{"id":135892,"date":"2023-12-31T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/31\/nigerians-losing-hope-in-governments-protective-ability-bishop-kukah\/"},"modified":"2023-12-31T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:29:08","slug":"nigerians-losing-hope-in-governments-protective-ability-bishop-kukah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/31\/nigerians-losing-hope-in-governments-protective-ability-bishop-kukah\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians Losing Hope In Government\u2019s Protective Ability \u2014 Bishop Kukah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_885638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-885638\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-885638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot_20230710_181248.jpg\" alt=\"Bishop Matthew Kukah\" width=\"1080\" height=\"616\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-885638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bishop Matthew Kukah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, says Nigerians are losing hope in the Nigerian government to protect their lives.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there is a war being waged against the Nigerian state and the people.<\/p>\n<p>The cleric, in a statement issued on Saturday over the recent attacks in Plateau State, wondered why the northern part of the country has become a \u201cbirthplace of so much bloodletting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, with time, Nigerians are gradually losing hope in the ability of their government to protect and secure them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that on Christmas eve, over 150 people were killed in 17 communities in Bokkos, Barkin-Ladi, and Mangu Local Government Areas of the State.<\/p>\n<p>Several houses were destroyed by the gunmen during the attacks, leaving many residents displaced.<\/p>\n<p>After the attacks, the Federal Government promised that the affected communities and victims would get justice.<\/p>\n<p>However, Kukah said the killers have turned the Nigerian State and security agencies into \u201cobjects of mockery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Plateau Massacre: Peter Obi Visits Victims, Donates N5m<\/strong><\/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. They 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>\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. We seem to be consoled that they are destroying churches, as well as mosques, killing Christians, as well as Muslims,\u201d Kukah lamented.<\/p>\n<p>He furthered that Nigerians are humiliated and betrayed by \u201cthose who are collaborating with these murderers and a government that seems helpless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cleric said the \u201cculture of investigation as excuses must end,\u201d adding that Nigerians, including the media, must hold the government accountable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-155769242\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Matthew Kukah Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, says Nigerians are losing hope in the Nigerian government to protect their lives. According to him, there is a war being waged against the Nigerian state and the people. The cleric, in a statement issued on Saturday over the recent attacks in Plateau State, wondered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nigerians Losing Hope In Government\u2019s Protective Ability \u2014 Bishop Kukah - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/31\/nigerians-losing-hope-in-governments-protective-ability-bishop-kukah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerians Losing Hope In Government\u2019s Protective Ability \u2014 Bishop Kukah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bishop Matthew Kukah Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, says Nigerians are losing hope in the Nigerian government to protect their lives. 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