Kukah says Nigeria’s leaders are religious hypocrites

‎Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah has described some of the country’s leaders as religious hypocrites.

‎Kukah spoke in a sermon titled, ‘‎A nation in search its soul’ which he delivered at vigil mass for Archbishop Peter Yariyock Jatau at St. Joseph’s Catholic Cathedral in Kaduna.‎

He noted that Nigerians have been complaining that the country is full of churches and mosques but cannot find the values of the religions in their leaders.‎

“We sin at home by stealing the nation’s resources but we seek repentance and forgiveness in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem in the guise of lesser or higher pilgrimages.‎

“Our nation has become one huge wasteland, huge debris of the deceit, lies, treachery, double dealing and duplicity.

“Nigerian politicians have turned our politics into a huge trojan horse, a hoax, a hall of guile and dissimulation,” he said.

Kukah warned that general frustration was on the rise and evident in domestic violence and inter-communal conflicts.‎

“A combination of all these has turned us unto a nation at war with itself,” he observed.