Abuja, 09 April, 2024 / 8:35 pm (ACI Africa).
Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Nigeria’s Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja has decried bad governance in the West African nation, characterized with vices such as self-gratification, indifference to citizens’ needs, and extravagance, among other social ills.
In his Sunday, April 7 homily at the Church of Annunciation, Arab Road, Kubwa of his Metropolitan See, Archbishop Kaigama challenged the international community to shift attention from supporting war, homosexuality, and abortion to confronting Nigeria’s “insensitive leaders”.
“Powerful nations seem to provide more support for the war, easier services for abortion, zealously promoting the rights of same-sex couples, but weakly responding to the issues of poverty, hunger, and disease and a host of anomalies,” he lamented.
The Nigerian Catholic Archbishop said he considered it a better intervention for the “powerful nations” to weigh in on the challenge of bad governance in Africa.
He said, “I imagine that the international community can put pressure on insensitive leaders who corruptly enrich themselves and provide no social security for their people, leave youths largely unemployed, and spend so much on governance.”
