By Lucy Adautin
The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, characterizes Nigeria’s former and current leaders as “men in a drunken stupor who stumble and fumble while searching for the way home.”
In his Easter address to the nation on Sunday, Kukah emphasized that for more than 60 years following independence, Nigerian leaders have not established a solid framework for the nation’s governance. Instead, “immoral and sordid debauchery has spread like cancer destroying all our vital organs.”
He called on the current government to develop a robust template for reversing the trend of bad governance and putting the country on a path of national healing.
His words: “Our leaders chose the feast rather than the fast. We are today reaping what we sowed yesterday. For over 60 years, our leaders have looked like men in a drunken stupor, staggering, stumbling and fumbling, slurring in speech, with blurred visions searching for the way home.
“The corruption of the years of a life of immoral and sordid debauchery has spread like cancer destroying all our vital organs. The result is a state of a hangover that has left our nation comatose.
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“Notwithstanding, Easter is a time to further reflect on the road not taken. It is a time to see if this Golgotha of pain can lead us to the new dawn of the resurrection. Nigeria can and Nigeria will be great again. Let us ride this tide together in hope.
“The government must design a more comprehensive and wide-ranging method of recruitment that is transparent as a means of generating patriotism and reversing the ugly face of feudalism and prebendalism.
“There is a need for a clear communications strategy that will serve to inspire and create timelines of expectations of results from policies.
“There is a need for clarity over questions of the who, what, when, and how national set goals are to be attained and who can be held accountable.“
