Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, yesterday, took the Buhari administration to task over the committee it set up to identify grazing routes across the country, saying the Federal Government has no such routes anywhere.
Falana spoke on a day Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Diocese of Sokoto of the Catholic Church said it was difficult to take in the things happening in Nigeria.
On his part, Supreme Court Justice Chima Nweze lamented that the nation is bitterly divided on religious, ethnic and ideological lines.
The eminent Nigerians spoke at the inauguration of the Old Seminarians Association of Nigeria of the Catholic Church.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives, Chinedu Akubueze, who’s the Chairman of the association, said they were going to explore the diverse membership to solve many socio-political challenges facing the country.
Delivering his key note address, Nweze, who’s a member of the association, urged the Church and the Priests to always contribute to the national discourse in the best interest of the country and the people.
Speaking on the topic, “Age Quid Agis: the Route to National Cohesion and Integration, the concept of Good Neighbour”, he said: “Nigeria is, highly, divided along ethnic, religious, political and ideological lines. This division comes with serious suspicion, distrust, and hatred among the diverse citizens. Efforts towards national integration as national interest and project in Nigeria is challenged by corruption, baseless party politics and worse of all, insecurity.
“The country, in the face of these challenges, requires that its citizens think beyond their differences to propel the nation into maximising its potentials towards the actualization of greatness. It should be noted that without love encapsulated in good neighbourliness being imbibed by the citizens, the different components that make up the country will persist as dividing factors among the people.
“In my humble view, emboldened by the mandate of the dogmatic Constitution, the Nigerian Church should now espouse what a theologian once called ‘the evangelisation of human structures’. That is a new approach which should confront the injustices ravaging the economic, social and political lives of the people.
The question now is: how can the Nigerian Church achieve this without embarking on political activism? As we noted elsewhere, political philosophers have identified corrupt political leadership as the ultimate albatross of political life in Nigeria.
Exactly sir… It should not be allowed
If he badly needs to give them a place to graze… He should give them his own personal land… After all they are his family
Grazing route should not be a most for all state
That’s good