Nsukka, 26 February, 2021 / 5:25 pm (ACI Africa).
The Bishop of Nigeria’s Nsukka Diocese has faulted the government for what seems to be a back-and-forth engagement with bandits in the West African country at a time that other countries are fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
In his Sunday, February 21 homily at St. Theresa Cathedral of Nsukka Diocese, Bishop Godfrey Onah also expressed concerns about the laxity in the implementation of COVID-19 safety precautions.
“Every country in the world is making plans about protecting its citizens through vaccination. The Nigerian government is busy protecting cows and governors are defending the rights of bandits to carry arms,” Bishop Onah said.
Bishop Onah added, “Whereas governments are curtailing their budgets in order to attack this disease, our own government is busy throwing bombs in Eastern Nigeria.”
“While other people are protecting children, our government is begging bandits to release hundreds of children who were taken from schools," the Nigerian Bishop said, making reference to multiple cases of school abductions in Africa’s most populous nation.