Kuka who stated this on Sunday in a statement titled "Blood and Crucifixion on the Plateau", reminded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that Nigerians are losing trust in the government to secure them.
The Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev Matthew Hassan Kukah, has decried the massacre of Christians in Plateau communities on Christmas Eve, describing the perpetrators as sons of Satan who came from the pit of hell.
Kuka who stated this on Sunday in a statement titled "Blood and Crucifixion on the Plateau", reminded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that Nigerians are losing trust in the government to secure them.
SaharaReporters reported on Tuesday that gunmen believed to be herders invaded 15 communities in two Plateau council areas of Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi in coordinated attacks.
The assailants killed at least 200 residents, including women and children. They also burnt 221 houses, eight vehicles, and other properties worth millions of naira.
President Tinubu had since condemned the attacks and directed security agencies to go after the attackers and bring them to justice.
Bishop Kukah in his message said there is an urgent need to reset Nigeria’s security architecture to prevent further killings by terrorists and armed groups in the country.
He said, "Those 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. They 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.”
“The world would then say that this is was a war of religion, Christians killing Muslims 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?" he lamented.
According to him, it is the task of the intelligence community to unmask the sponsors of the killings and tell Nigerians their motives and locations.
“There is an urgent need to re-set the national security architecture. Enough is enough.
“National security is a function of robust, deep intellectual analysis and mapping of the goals and even ambitions of a country, its local, regional or global place in the world.
“It thrives on creating scenarios based on a proper understanding and reading of geo-politics and locating where a country wants to be. So far, we have thrived on ad hoc and arbitrary options,” Kukah explained.
No comments:
Post a Comment