Quit if you can’t secure lives – Onaiyekan to govt

Aformer Archbishop of the Catholic Church, Abuja Diocese, Archbishop John Onaiyekan, has asked federal government officials to leave the stage if they can no longer protect the lives of people in the country.

Onaiyekan stated this while speaking with journalists in Minna after the ordination of the Auxillary Bishop of Minna Diocese.

He noted that it is wrong for the government to talk about dialogue with the bandits, saying the government should stop pretending that they are the ones ruling as non-state actors have taken over the country.

The Archbishop insisted that government has no excuse for the continuous insecurity that is bedevilling parts of the country and that if definite steps are not taken, there will be a revolt that would be dangerous to the people.

According to him, “The fact remains that we are not where we should be. We should not be living in a country where we are always with our hearts in our mouth when we are moving from one place to another. We should not be living in a country where the children cannot study in schools and where bandits can come and cart away students and their teachers into the bush and sit there and boast for dialogue.

“This has nothing to do with APC or PDP, it is not political and we have also seen that it has nothing to do with Islam or Christianity, not even with our ethnic differences. We have a gang of criminals that are almost taking over our country and the government should either do it or allow others to do it,” he said.