Ortom Supports Kukah Against Buhari On Killing Of Nigerian Christians

While calling on the federal government to go after criminal Fulani herdsmen, bandits and kidnappers, Ortom recalled how President Buhari back in February 2015 as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), while delivering a speech at Chatham House in London, stated that“Boko Haram has sadly put Nigeria on the terrorism map, killing more than 13,000 of our nationals.” “The President went on to announce to the world on that occasion that apart from the civil war era, Nigeria had never been more insecure in the country’s history.

“If a man who was seeking to govern the country could reel out such scary statistics, why will his aides now launch media attacks on a clergyman who is only advocating peace and is drawing the attention of the global community to the plight of helpless Nigerians.” “However, Kukah is not to blame for the ranking of Nigeria as the 8th least peaceful country in Africa and the rating of killer herdsmen as the 4th deadliest terror group in the world by the Global Terrorism Index.

“I expected the Presidency to rather be worried that Nigeria is ranked as the most terrorized nation in Africa with an average of over 2,000 deaths per year on account of terrorism,”he said.

The Catholic leader told the US Congress that extremists, bandits, Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram were targeting many schools in the North especially, Christian ones and are“indoctrinating the children..

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