The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese,
Most Rev. Matthew Kukah, has said nothing was wrong with the agitation
for Biafra by members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the
Sovereign State of Biafra.
Kukah, who said this on Friday night at
the convocation lecture of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun
State, added that the pro-Biafra agitators were exercising the freedom
of expression.
The clergyman advised the Federal
Government to partner with the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu,
saying the government should seek to do business with him because of his
charisma.
The bishop further said no Nigerian
politician could mobilise a huge number of supporters like Kanu without
paying them, saying the government did not need to hound this kind of
person but to partner with him.
Kukah said: “This country cannot
continue this way. MASSOB has right to demand Biafra since we have
freedom of expression. The problem of Nigeria should not be with Kanu
but should be with who let the door open.
“The President of Nigeria or any
governor, unless he pays, cannot bring the number of people that Kanu
brought out. The anxiety of Nigeria should be that a young man who can
bring out such great number of people is worth doing business with.”
The cleric also bemoaned the state of
Nigerian universities. He said the management as well as lecturers
should be blamed if some students failed to graduate.
Kukah stated that students had a say in
the promotion of their lecturers in some universities but that was not
the case in the nation’s varsities.
“Elsewhere, students have a say in the
promotion of their teachers but here in Nigeria, too many evils are
being committed. We need a generation of lawyers and judges who can bend
the arc of justice in favour of the poor,” he added.
In his opening remarks, the
Vice-Chancellor of the OAU, Prof. Bamitale Omole, said the university
remained the best in the country, saying many feats had been achieved
since he assumed office
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