A total of 75 Bishops are expected to attend the 2018 Catholic Bishops Conference in Sokoto beginning on September 6.
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Rev. Father Lawrence Emehel of the Justice, Development and Peace Centre, who represented Kukah, disclosed this to the newsmen in Sokoto.
“I think I was one of the first people to raise the issue of amnesty about five years ago, I know how much we were vilified,” he said.
The road walk, which was tagged: “End Human Trafficking Now,” is in collaboration with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Sokoto Zonal Office.
Kukah spoke in Sokoto at the end of a road-work organised by the diocesan Justice, Development and Peace Commission in collaboration with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Sokoto zonal office.
The same politics plays out in other African countries. In Kenya, John Githongo, their once-upon-a-time anti-corruption czar, in a book on him, the author, Michela Wrong complains that what prevails in Kenyan politics is the syndrome of “it-is-our-turn-to-eat.” In that country, the emergent politics is not even just about what to eat, it is about ego, elite contestation, dynastic rivalry and power. Wrong is right in many ways. That drama has been played out in the recent elections in Kenya but here in Nigeria, we have also been dealing with the same crisis since independence.
Bishop Kukah was apt, precise, direct, sincere, coordinated and articulate at the said event. He confirmed what has always been there but we shy away from. We don’t talk about it, so we don’t get labeled as a rebel or radical