Cardinal Onaiyekan Reacts To Plateau Massacre

Cardinal John Onaiyekan

Catholic Archbishop of Abuja John Cardinal Onaiyekan has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to fish out and prosecute the perpetrators of the Plateau massacre.

Scores were left dead last week after suspected herdsmen attacked some communities in Plateau state.

Speaking on the development, the clergyman noted that the leadership of the country has failed as no one believes them anymore.

“Two hundred people dying is too many in a country that claims not to be at war. Nobody else in the world will believe that such a thing can happen without a government knowing who they [perpetrators] are,” he told Sun News.

“And I do hope that our rulers know that nobody believes them anymore. Nobody believes them anymore, because it’s not possible that 200 people would be massacred with nobody seeing them, no one arrested or nobody called to order. It saddens my heart. Now, this is a very typical case.

“Whether those killed were Christians or Muslims, that’s not the issue. That 200 human lives were destroyed is the point here. Similarly, I don’t really care about identities of those who are killing; but whoever they are, they should be stopped and they should be prosecuted.

“Nigeria, we’ve turned elections into crisis. Nigerians don’t know, for example, that in other countries you wake up in the morning, you go and vote and go back to work – even government officials.

“Schools keep running; teachers just leave classrooms and move to election centres and go back to class. No police sirens, no soldiers everywhere.”

 

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