We are not going to see the end of protest soon until…Father Kukah

Catholic Archbishop, Father Mathew Hassan Kukah has said the mayhem being unleashed in many parts of Nigeria may not end so soon until President Mohammadu Buhari realises that we have a major crisis and shows a sense of revulsion.

Kukah was speaking in an interview on Channels Television monitored by Church Times on October 21

He said, “We have a president that seems to be almost unwilling to respond to the kind of reflexes that is required in a democracy and a president that he does not listen to wise counsel. Time is not on our side. You can’t kill people on the streets of Nigeria and 24 hours later the president has still not spoken.

“This culture of I don’t care has matured to a point in which we keep seeing corpses on our roads and nothing has changed. This is why what young people are doing has so much significance. Let the truth be told, we are not going to see the end of this so soon unless the president wakes up to the fact that we have a major crisis in our hands.”

Kukah who is a member of the National Peace Committee expressed shock that despite the bloodletting in the country and the loss of lives “There has been no national broadcast, no show of empathy, nobody has lost his job. You don’t get a sense that somehow there is genuine concern and empathy over the situation on the ground. What we are doing is simply escalating the emotion of people”

He said there is nothing that could be done, no matter the goodwill of the person without the input of the president

He added, “So far it is quite troubling that the president is sending a message of being unshaken, untouched and unconcern.

“Everybody who is holding a weapon does so at his behest. He has a responsibility for the beginning of that bullet to the end. He is purely responsible for what happened (referring to the killings in Lekki). There is no evidence that the president is calling anybody to order, there is no reason for now that people are not being held accountable for what has happened in the last 24 hours. There is no sense of revulsion.”