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| Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah |
As raw & as straightforward as you can get the truth, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah dished it out today at the platform.
"An intellectually lazy nation looks up to a messiah they don't know what he looks like to rescue them. We require a collective courage to say we can't continue like this."
"Our leaders would have good motives but too many good people doing bad things are what brought us here and We have a culture that predisposes even the best leaders to corruption. Prayer has become a substitute for us, by not doing anything."
"We live in a system where we believe our level of prosperity is a signal of God's Blessing that is why corruption thrives here."
The danger for any Country is when we fail to Learn and unlearn. The greatest sin in the world is the sin of indifference!
Kukah who described the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as a ‘defining moment’ said “good governance is not about good men, good women or bad men, bad women”
He cited the case of prosperous China, where most of it citizens don’t attend church or mosque.
The Bishop regretted that “if you go back to history, every group that staged a coup always say they took power because of corruption, but in the end we come out worse”
Kukah who said the anti corruption crusade of Buhari must be supported, and that a moral benchmark must be set asked ” if corruption is so evil why are we, at peace with it, why is it like the MTN slogan, corruption, everywhere you go”
The cleric blamed the broken system and weak institutions for rot saying ‘if you take a Nigerian president to be US president, he won’t be able to steal $50,000, in his whole term, but if you bring the British prime minister, or US president to run Nigeria, the system would corrupt him”
Other speakers include, Professor Pat Utomi, Professor Pius Adesanmi, US based, Judy Smith and Bolanle-Austeen Peters
Kukah, spoke Thursday at a talk shop organized by the Platform Nigeria in Lagos to mark Nigeria’s independence.
In his speech, he said: "I believe that Buhari is not a new kid in the block, he's been there before... He fought corruption and lost his job - Napoleon said, "it is religion that stops the poor from killing the rich"
"There is no correlation between human goodness and capacity to govern. and "Nigeria is a country where Hypocrisy is worn as a garment of honour"
"There is no correlation between human goodness and capacity to govern. and "Nigeria is a country where Hypocrisy is worn as a garment of honour"
Human goodness, or holiness has no correlation to capacity to govern at any level, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah has said. The cleric contended that what Nigeria needs is not a messiah but men with conscience and political will.
According to him, most of those in political offices tagged leaders are not leaders because there is a distinction between holding office and being a leader.
"Our leaders would have good motives but too many good people doing bad things are what brought us here and We have a culture that predisposes even the best leaders to corruption. Prayer has become a substitute for us, by not doing anything."
"We live in a system where we believe our level of prosperity is a signal of God's Blessing that is why corruption thrives here."
Kukah who described the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as a ‘defining moment’ said “good governance is not about good men, good women or bad men, bad women”
He cited the case of prosperous China, where most of it citizens don’t attend church or mosque.
The Bishop regretted that “if you go back to history, every group that staged a coup always say they took power because of corruption, but in the end we come out worse”
Kukah who said the anti corruption crusade of Buhari must be supported, and that a moral benchmark must be set asked ” if corruption is so evil why are we, at peace with it, why is it like the MTN slogan, corruption, everywhere you go”
The cleric blamed the broken system and weak institutions for rot saying ‘if you take a Nigerian president to be US president, he won’t be able to steal $50,000, in his whole term, but if you bring the British prime minister, or US president to run Nigeria, the system would corrupt him”
Other speakers include, Professor Pat Utomi, Professor Pius Adesanmi, US based, Judy Smith and Bolanle-Austeen Peters
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