By Yusuf Boluwatife
Archbishop of Okigwe Archdioceses of Methodist Church Nigeria, His Grace, Most Rev Livinus Onuagha has cried out in the state of the Nation declaring it as only existing in name as unity has totally disappeared, he said this at St Andrew’s Church Awada Obosi, Anambra State when priests from the Onitsha Diocese organized a reception in his honour for the new elevation.
He said, “Nigeria had been divided, adding that experts had already pronounced it so.
Quoting literary legend, Chinua Achebe, he said that those who were supposed to hold Nigeria together had put knife to what held the country together leading things to fall apart and the centre could not hold again.
“Must President Muhammadu Buhari be told to protect Nigerians? What did he take as his oath of office? Banditry is now a great trade in Nigeria.
“Look at the massacre in Jos and the President keeps quiet only for the security operatives to react when the youths decided to defend the people. Human lives have become nothing in Nigeria. And you cannot advise the Federal Government because the man in charge and his people have a mindset.”
The Archbishop wondered what the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) was waiting for before it could rise to the occasion to say no to what he described as the holocaust sweeping across the country.
”Christian leaders are keeping quiet. What is the CAN doing? If all the religious leaders could come out en mass whether Catholic, Pentecostal, Anglican and whatever denomination, indeed all church leaders and stage a nationwide protest for the whole world to hear them, that would be a good step in the right direction, ” he said.
The Archbishop said his support for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu hinged on the fact that Kanu, as he described him, is the Moses of the present generation of the Igbo.
“Let them let us go because it is even to their advantage because we will be exporting a lot of things to them as we are highly enterprising.
“Our Governors keep quiet because they get peanuts from the centre. The economy of the South East can receive a boom if railway lines are built crisscrossing the major cities in the zone.
“The Nigerian military has been compromised. How can bandits swoop on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), kill three Christian military officers and escape just like that? People are being killed like rats every day and you want me to be happy as a religious leader. No. That is too bad, ”
Source: Sunday Sun
