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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and Bishop Matthew Kukah
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Monday, backed the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, who criticised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over the worsening security situation, corruption and division in Nigeria.
HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the cleric was right that everything under Buhari has “literally broken down” and Nigeria has become “one big emergency national hospital with full occupancy”.
The group also knocked the Ninth National Assembly led by Senate President Ahmad Lawan and House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, over the collective failure of the lawmakers to impeach Buhari despite his many failings and incompetence.
Kukah had, in his Easter Message on Sunday, said, “The challenge of fixing this broken nation is enormous and, as I have said, requires joint efforts. With everything literally broken down, our country has become one big emergency national hospital with full occupancy.
“Our individual hearts are broken. Our family dreams are broken. Homes are broken. Churches, Mosques, and infrastructure are broken. Our educational system is broken. Our children’s lives and future are broken. Our politics is broken. Our economy is broken. Our energy system is broken. Our security system is broken. Our Roads and Rails are broken. Only corruption is alive and well.
“The greatest challenge for Nigeria is not even the 2023 elections. It is the prospect for the reconciliation of our people. Here, the Buhari administration sadly has divided our people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, and region, in a way that we have never…
