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Kukah’s Easter Message:Another Absurd Agitation From An Anarchist

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Bishop Mathew Kukah

<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98&period;1 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"94AB16pb" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>By Bala Ibrahim&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"7f2awBL5" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>For the second time in two consecutive years&comma; the catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese&comma; Father Mathew Hassan Kukah is using the pulpit on Easter day&comma; to send insults to President Muhammadu Buhari and the government he supervises&period; In this year’s Easter message&comma; which he delivered on Sunday&comma;17&sol;04&sol;2022&comma; Bishop Kukah said President Buhari has destroyed every aspect of life in Nigeria&comma; but has allowed corruption to thrive and grow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With everything literally broken down&comma; our country has become one big emergency national hospital with full occupancy&period; Our individual hearts are broken&period; Our family dreams are broken&period; Homes are broken&period; Churches&comma; Mosques&comma; infrastructure are broken&period; Our educational system is broken&period; Our children’s lives and future are broken&period; Our politics is broken&period; Our economy is broken&period; Our energy system is broken&period; Our security system is broken&period; Our roads and rails are broken&period; Only corruption is alive and well”- Kukah&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It may be recalled that last year&comma; on a similar Easter&comma; Kukah delivered a similar insult to President Muhammadu Buhari and his government&comma; saying the government had failed and turned the country into a massive killing field&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"i0oFK15F" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2022&sol;04&sol;18&sol;federal-poly-kabo-and-the-need-for-balance-among-three-senatorial-zones&sol;">Federal Poly Kabo And The Need For Balance Among Three Senatorial Zones<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98&period;1 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>I found a particular paragraph in Kukah’s message curious and worthy of compassion&comma; where he said&comma; Buhari has totally destroyed Nigeria&comma; divided citizens&comma; enthroned corruption and Nigerians can no longer recognise their country&comma; which has been battered and buffeted by men and women from the dark womb of time&period; It is no longer necessary to ask how we got here&period; The real challenge is how to find the slippery rungs on the ladder of ascent so we can climb out&period; Yet&comma; we ask&comma; ascend to where&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ascent to where&quest; I think Father Kukah needs to be reminded of the past&comma; specifically the PDP years&comma; when the government was using slush funds as political bribery to settle clerics&period; Now that Buhari has suffocated that channel&comma; insults are his portion from them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Memories are still fresh about the infamous Dasukigate&comma; where out of the &dollar;2&period;1b that was diverted&comma; N2&period;2b was allegedly collected by clerics to pray for the nation&comma; in its effort to combat Boko Haram and the incessant killings of innocent citizens&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What did Father Kukah say then&quest; Has he forgotten how we got there&comma; or were we not ever there&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Father Kukah said our security system is broken&comma; but I think it’s the fault of his memory&comma; which seems to have failed him&period; To reinvigorate that memory of his&comma; I would refer him to an old tweet from the social media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari&comma; Mrs Lauretta Onochie&comma; where in she listed over 50 prominent personalities that were killed under the watch of his PDP benefactors&comma; starting with chief Bola Ige&comma; the former Attorney General of the Federation and minister of justice&comma; who was shot dead in his bedroom in Bodija&comma; Ibadan on December 23&comma; 2001&comma; as number 1&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98&period;1 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>2 Similarly&comma; Chief Aminasaoari Dikibo&comma; PDP Deputy National Chairman was ambushed near Asaba in daylight and was murdered in October 22&comma; 2004&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;3 The gruesome cold blood murder of Dr&period; Harry Marshal on March 05&comma; 2003&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;4 Janet Oladape&comma; PDP leader in Odigbo LGA clubbed to death by gunmen on August 13&comma; 2002&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;5 Alhaji Ahmed Pategi&comma; Kwara State Chairman&comma; PDP&comma; murdered at Aiyetoro&comma; in Kogi State&comma; on the 15th of August&comma; 2002&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;6 Barnabas Igwe&comma; Chairman&comma; Nigeria Bar Association &lpar;NBA&rpar; and his wife&comma; Abigail Igwe&comma; murdered on the 1st of September&comma; 2002&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;7 Victor Nwankwo&comma; younger brother of Arthur Nwankwo&comma; founder&comma; Eastern Mandate Union &lpar;EMU&rpar; assassinated on August 29&comma; 2001&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;8 Momoh Lawal&comma; relation of Akaaba&comma; former Chairman&comma; Okene LGA in Kogi killed on March 5&comma; 2001&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;9 Odunayo Olagbaju&comma; member&comma; Osun House of Assembly&comma; killed in Ile-Ife on December 21&comma; 2001&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;10 Chimere Ikoku&comma; former Vice Chancellor&comma; University of Nigeria&comma; Nsukka&comma; Enugu State&comma; was killed in his residence in on 20th of October 2002&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;11 Dele Arojo&comma; PDP guber aspirant&comma; was killed by unknown assailants in Lagos on November 25&comma; 2002&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;12 In February&comma; 2003&comma; Chief Ogbonnaya Uche&comma; All Nigerian Peoples Party &lpar;ANPP&rpar; senatorial candidate in Imo State was assassinated&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;13 Theodore Agwatu&comma; Principal Secretary to the Governor of Imo State&comma; was killed in February 2003&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;14 Mrs&period; Emily Omope&comma; an Alliance for Democracy &lpar;AD&rpar; Woman Leader died in March&comma; 2003 at University College Hospital&comma; Ibadan after an acid attack in December&comma; 2002 by unknown persons&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;15 In February 2003&comma; Ogbonnaya Uche&comma; ANPP senatorial candidate for Orlu was killed in his home residence by unknown gunmen&period; Killers are yet to be found till date&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;16 Andrew Agom&comma; A member of PDP Board of Trustees and former boss of Nigeria Airways&comma; was also killed on March 4&comma; 2004&period; Agom was on the entourage of the former Benue State governor&comma; Senator George Akume&comma; when he was killed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;17 Death moved to the South West on May 15&comma; 2005 with the murder of leading financier of Oronmiyan Group&comma; a socio-political organization&comma; Alabi Okoju&comma; at Gbongan&comma; Osun State by assassins&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;18 In July 2006&comma; Lagos PDP gubernatorial aspirant&comma; Funsho Williams was killed at his Dolphin Estate home in Ikoyi&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;19 Former World Bank consultant and PDP guber aspirant in Ekiti State&comma; Dr&period; Ayo Daramola&comma; was also murdered in 2006&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;20 Kehinde Fasubaa&comma; a look a-like twin brother of Taye Fasuba&comma; then Ado-Ekiti LG Chairman was killed on January 03&comma; 2009&period; Taye Fasuba himself escaped death in 2004&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;21 Dipo Dina&comma; fell to the bullets of assassins On Monday&comma; January 25&comma; 2010 around Covenant University&comma; Ota&period; The late Dina was defunct Action Congress &lpar;AC&rpar; gubernatorial candidate in 2007&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Onochie went on to list about 30 journalists that were so assassinated&comma; but all those killings did not attract the attention of Father Kukah&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In case Father Kukah has forgotten&comma; Nigerians have not forgotten about how he was contracted by President Olusegun Obasanjo to smuggle shell into Ogoni land&comma; in order to placate the Ogonis to make peace with Shell Petroleum Development Company &lpar;SPDC&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The contract failed&comma; only for Buhari to come to the rescue&comma; by initiating and executing a transparent Ogoni clean up&comma; without giving a kobo to Kukah&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was a huge contract involving enormous amount of money that was expected to put to an end to the many years of strained and bitter relationship between Shell and the Ogonis&comma; after the murder of four Ogoni chiefs and the trial and execution of 11 leaders of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People &lpar;MASOP&rpar;&comma; including Ken Saro Wiwa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As a man of God and in the spirit of Easter&comma; which is the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ&comma; clerics like Kukah must preach peace and not tell lies and hatred&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By his utterances&comma; Kukah is absurdly acting like an anarchist&comma; because his agitation is in conformity with the philosophy of anarchism&comma; which is a political philosophy that is sceptical of constituted authorities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 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