*The country’s security system is broken, but ‘only corruption is alive and well’, says Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah

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For apparent leadership failure over several decades, Nigeria has been described as 鈥榓 big emergency hospital鈥� where everything has broken down with the caregivers not knowing how to fix the pressing problems.

Most Revd. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, who stated this in his Easter Message delivered Sunday, April 17, 2022, at the Holy Family Cathedral, in Sokoto, Sokoto State, said the challenges Nigeria currently faces require dedicated leaders who love their country to fix them.

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Bishop Kukah reportedly said: 鈥淭he challenge of fixing this broken nation is enormous, and as I have said, requires dedicated leaders who love the country to fix them.

鈥淭hey also require joint efforts. With everything literally broken down, our country has become one big emergency national hospital with full occupancy.”

He also stated: 鈥淥ur individual hearts are broken. Our family dreams are broken.

“Homes are broken. Churches, Mosques, infrastructure are broken. Our educational system is broken. Our children鈥檚 lives and future are broken.

“Our politics is broken. Our economy is broken. Our energy system is broken.”

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese as well noted: 鈥淥ur security system is broken. Our roads and rails are broken. Only corruption is alive and well.”

He further lamented, saying “so, we ask with the Psalmist, ‘We look up to the hills, from where shall come our help? Our help shall come from the name of the Lord.’ ”

In regard to effective leadership in the West African country, Bishop Kukah said that Nigerian politicians had refused to learn past lessons from the 鈥渢ragedy that has afflicted us in the last few years.鈥�

He as well noted: 鈥淭he Presidency of Nigeria is not a human right based on ethnic, religious or regional sentiments.

鈥淭he 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.”

He stated: 鈥淲e have no need for any further empty messianic rhetoric laced with deceitful and grandiose religiosity.

鈥淲e 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.”

Kukah further said: 鈥淲hoever 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.鈥�

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