FG Hits Kukah, Don’t Use Your Position To Divide Nigerians

The Federal Government on Friday flayed comments by Bishop Matthew Kukah in which he compared the administration to Boko Haram advising that he should use his high ecclesiastical office to work for religious harmony in Nigeria.

The minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in a statement urged Kukah that he should not indulge in actions that are capable of dividing the country along religious lines.

Mohammed in the statement issued by Mr. Segun Adeyemi, special assistant to the president on media, (office of the minister of information), quoted the minister as saying that Kukah’s statement was a disservice to the men and women in uniform who are daily battling the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists to keep all Nigerians safe.

The Minister reiterated the federal government’s position that the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists do not subscribe to any religion, irrespective of their pretense to such, but are driven by their primitive propensity to kill mindlessly and destroy without restrain, irrespective of their victims’ creed, gender or tribe.

”To now attribute the actions of these mad bunch to an orchestrated and systematic plan to elevate one religion over the other or decimate adherents of a particular religion is not only unfortunate but divisive, incendiary and insensitive,” he said.

Alhaji Mohammed appealed to religious leaders to be more circumspect in their comments, especially on religious issues, because of the deeply emotive nature of religion and the tendency for it to be exploited for political gains by naysayers.

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