Abuja, 19 March, 2024 / 5:25 pm (ACI Africa).
The vice of corruption is pervasive and widespread in the West African nation of Nigeria, with perpetrators hell bent on diverting what “belongs to all” to themselves, Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of the country’s Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja has said.
In his Sunday, March 17 homily at Sts. Peter and Paul Nyanya Parish of his Metropolitan See, Archbishop Kaigama said corruption in Nigeria is happening with wild abandon, and that perpetrators, with dead consciences, “rationalize sin”.
“The degree of rot and blatant misuse of public resources of this great country is because many have allowed their conscience to die,” Archbishop Kaigama said, adding that perpetrators of corruption in Nigerian do not “pay attention to the voice of God”.
Perpetrators of corruption no longer see any wrong in the vice, he lamented, adding that they “rationalize sin and criminally take for themselves what belongs to all.”
Referring to the Gospel Reading for the Fifth Sunday of Lent in which Jesus uses the example of a grain of wheat dying to produce much more grain to explain how His ministry will bear fruit through His death and resurrection, providing a new basis for faith, Archbishop Kaigama urged Nigerians to embrace self sacrifice and be “patriotic citizens”.
