The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, has interpreted Nigeria’s situation as a big emergency hospital where everything has ceased to function.
He said the caregivers do not know how to fix the problem.
Bishop Kukah said this on Sunday during his Easter sermon that he delivered at the Holy Family Cathedral in Sokoto.
According to the outspoken Bishop, he said the challenges Nigeria presently encounters require devoted leaders who love their country to stabilize them.
Kukah said “The challenge of fixing this broken nation is enormous and, as I have said, requires dedicated leaders who love the country to fix them.
“They also require joint efforts. With everything broken down, our country has become one big emergency national hospital with full occupancy.
“Our hearts are broken. Our family dreams are broken. Homes are broken. Churches, Mosques, and infrastructure are broken. Our educational system is broken. Our children’s lives and futures are broken. Our politics is broken. Our economy is broken. Our energy system is broken.
“Our security system is broken. Our roads and rails are broken. Only corruption is alive and well. So, we ask with the Psalmist, “We look up to the hills, from where shall come to our help? Our help shall come from the name of the Lord,” he lamented.
Kukah who also took time to speak about the 2023 elections, said Nigerian politicians have refused to learn past lessons from the “tragedy that has afflicted us in the last few years.”
“The Presidency of Nigeria is not a human right based on ethnic, religious, or regional sentiments.
“The next President of Nigeria must be a man or woman with a heart, a sense of empathy, and a soul on fire that can set limits to what human indignities visited on citizens that he or she can tolerate.
“We do not need any further empty messianic rhetoric laced with deceitful and grandiose religiosity.
“We need someone who can fix our broken nation, rid our people of the looming dangers of hunger and destitution. Our Presidential aspirants must show evidence from their legacies and antecedents that they know the country well enough and its severe wounds.
“Whoever wants to govern us must illustrate that he or she understands what has turned our nation into a national hospital and show us plans for our discharge from this horror.”
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