Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto has cried out.

He said; “Nigeria cannot go on the way it is as people have become so traumatised by horrible news that they have become comfortable in this swamp of evil.”

“Life goes on in the country as if the ongoing atrocities are normal.”

“We have become experts at burying the dead, but refuse to ask why the killings continue. We cannot overstate the reality. It is clear that neither politics nor economic models can fix the country.”

“The political class is in a state of inebriation with the drug of power and loot.”

“The federal government has told us it is not ready to publicise the names of those funding Boko Haram. We cannot go on like this.”

“We know that this road is dangerous, it is rocky, it is treacherous, it takes lives, but it is all too familiar. The bodies and the emotions of men and women are irretrievably broken.”

“Our people, fleeing their homes after over ten years have now turned refugee camps into their habitats. Our identity as citizens is being traded for the status of migrants and refugees.”

“I am shocked at how the civic space in Nigeria is slowly closing, with citizens losing ordinary freedoms to the crippling hands of totalitarianism.”