Nsukka, 12 April, 2022 / 10:20 am (ACI Africa).
The Nigerian constitution is not working because it has been crafted by leaders who do not have the people’s interest at heart, the Bishop of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Nsukka has said, and concluded that the West African nation “is founded on a lie”.
In his Sunday, April 10 homily, Bishop Godfrey Igwebuike Onah said that Nigeria’s constitution was “deliberately made not to work” and that the country’s lawmakers are not doing anything to turn the situation around.
“Common Nigerians know that our nation is founded on a lie. And a nation founded on a lie is built on sand. The lie is in the constitution and we as common Nigerians did not make that constitution. It was deliberately made not to work,” Bishop Onah said in his homily on Palm Sunday.
The Nigerian Bishop added, “The people are saying ‘this constitution is not working; let us bring up a good constitution before this country is set ablaze. It is already burning.’ But the few selfish people don’t care.”
The Catholic Bishop who has been at the helm of Nigeria’s Nsukka Diocese since his Episcopal Ordination in July 2013 said that the assumption that the same people who cheered Jesus in his entry to Jerusalem are the ones that wanted Christ dead may be wrong.