Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, has joined numerous of Nigerians in condemning recent killings in Plateau, asserting that citizens of Nigeria are gradually losing hope in their government’s ability to protect them.
Regretting that terrorists are turning the nation’s security agents into objects of mockery, Bishop Kukah said in a statement he personally signed on Saturday evening that religious leaders; both Muslim and Christians, had continued to use moral authority to encourage their people not to take laws into their hands.
Kukah, speaking against the backdrop of the killing of over 150 persons in Plateau State on Christmas Eve by terrorists, said in the statement titled ‘Blood and Crucifixion on the Plateau,’ that “the invisible men” came to the Plateau again, bearing their gifts of death and destruction.
According to the cleric: “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.”
