Despite holding power for all these years, the north is still the poorest part of the country – Kuka

Excerpt of Bishop Matthew Kukah’s speech at the burial of Bishop Bagobiri in Southern Kaduna

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war (Ps. 120:7) ‘….For most of you here in the audience, you may recall that the last time I stood before a huge gathering of this nature to undertake the same assignment was at the funeral of the late Sir, Patrick Yakowa, and Governor of Kaduna State on December 21st, 2012.

I am told that till date, members of the Kaduna mafia have not been able to live down the contents of the sermon. Yet, then as now, they did not dispute the evidence I presented.

Today, that Kaduna has become an open sore of injury and pain that it is the most divided and volatile state in Nigeria is the result of the seeds of disunity sowed in the corrosive legacy of the policies of exclusion that the mafia sowed. We are sadly still not out of…