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.
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