you were not voted into complain_ says bishop Kukah to President Buhari

Bishop Matthew Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto diocese, wants President Muhammadu Buhari to stop castigating the previous government and start working towards solving the problems in the country.



THE CABLE reports that speaking at the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) in Ondo state, Kukah said, ''Sending people to prison will only be useful if it puts bread on the table of people''.

''I still believe that unless we get to the root cause of poverty, inequality, which is really the evidence and symptom of corruption; you can talk of fighting corruption all the rest of your life, and very little is going to happen.

''The previous government didn’t only do bad things; it did a lot of good things. And I think the business of government is not our business; our business is: if the previous government did badly, that is why we voted a new government.

''We didn’t vote a government to complain about yesterday. If we wanted yesterday, the new government would not be there. It is really about taking responsibility. No matter how much you praise or abuse Jonathan, he is not the president of Nigeria. I think that people must understand, you take power to solve problems, not to agonise.''

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