‘The only difference between the government and Boko Haram is Boko Haram is holding a bomb,’ Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah claimed

The beheading of 10 Christians by Islamist militants in Nigeria has sparked a condemnation by a bishop who accuses the government of using different methods to achieve the same goal of Islamic dominance.

In the wake of the Christmas Day attack by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and an attack by Boko Haram on Christmas Eve, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto told Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need of his disgust with the authorities.

He said: “The only difference between the government and Boko Haram is Boko Haram is holding a bomb.”

He added: “They are using the levers of power to secure the supremacy of Islam, which then gives more weight to the idea that it can be achieved by violence. With the situation in Nigeria, it is hard to see the moral basis they have to defeat Boko Haram.

“They have created the conditions to make it possible for Boko Haram to behave the way they are behaving.”

On Boxing Day 2019, ISWAP released a video beheading 10 Christians and shooting one Muslim, saying they were avenging the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghadi, Daesh (ISIS)’s leader, and other senior Daesh members killed during a US raid in October.

This followed a Christmas Eve attack by Boko Haram in which seven were killed.

The UN estimates that over 2.2 million have been displaced by Boko Haram’s actions – between 2013 and 2015, more than 11,000 people were killed by the group.

Bishop Kukah said the Nigerian government, by packing key government positions with hardline Muslims, gives tacit approval to such groups.

“If the people in power don’t do enough to integrate Christians then they give oxygen to Islamism. If they have countries where everybody is Muslim in power then you give vent to the idea that Islam should be supreme.”

Bishop Kukah hit out against Western nations who he said are happy to mine the resources of Africa but not defend its people.

He said: “Western nations are not doing enough. They have shown that the resources of Africa are more important than the ordinary people. Clearly, the Western nations could have reduced the influence of Boko Haram by 80 or 90 percent – they have deliberately not done enough.”

Bishop Kukah said that the only thing preventing Nigeria from being engulfed in civil war was the peaceful tenets of Christianity.

He said: “Christians have every reason to feel insecure and also there is a general feeling of their marginalisation from the political process. If the principles of our religion were different, there would be a civil war by now.

“It is the glory of our religion that this hasn’t happened. It is difficult to preach peace in this context. Any resolution depends on how Christians decide to react. They won’t use violence but what will they do?”

This article was provided by Aid to the Church in Need UK.

Source: https://elombah.com/bishop-kukah-says-nigerian-govt-are-islamic-fundamentalists-without-bombs/amp/

Bishop Kukah has said the whole truth. Tactic and moral support from people in high places for this islamist terrorists.

Look at what is coming out from the sewage outlet of what we call a Bishop.

Divide they can only do...

This people do not have national interest at heart and Ogun and Sango worshippers are holier than them.

Lets assume this were to be case, doesnt he know what Christ would have done if he was to be alive?

Its shameful that a ceremonial Bishop be using religious lines to condemn a government. Was it a Christian fundamentalist government when GEJ or Obasanjo were Presidents.

Bishop should please take a seat and preach the word of God. Their are many parts of the world the message has not gotten to and he is masturbating here about a government on religious lines.


He was even talking about war! Dis one na Bishop so? Christ will be disappointed in Heaven

All this guys are just angry because nothing is getting to them again unlike the days of GEJ when Christian associations were money spindling machines.

I completely agree with you completely. No wisdom whatsoever. And imagine where the democracy he abandons came from!

OgunLaakaye:
Look at what is coming out from the sewage outlet of what we call a Bishop.

Divide they can only do...

This people do not have national interest at heart and Ogun and Sango worshippers are holier than them.

Lets assume this were to be case, doesnt he know what Christ would have done if he was to be alive?

Its shameful that a ceremonial Bishop be using religious lines to condemn a government. Was it a Christian fundamentalist government when GEJ or Obasanjo were Presidents.

Bishop should please take a seat and preach the word of God. Their are many parts of the world the message has not gotten to and he is masturbating here about a government on religious lines.


He was even talking about war! Dis one na Bishop so? Christ will be disappointed in Heaven

All this guys are just angry because nothing is getting to them again unlike the days of GEJ when Christian associations were money spindling machines.

End time Bishops dividing the nation and heating up the polity!