Killings: Security Agencies Acting Script Approved By Buhari –Catholic Bishops

BY MUSA SIMON REEF, ABUJA – The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria on Friday said the failure by security agencies to tackle the mass killings in the country is in line with a script approved by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Reacting to separate attacks on two churches in Benue that led to the killing of two Catholic priests and 25 persons, the Catholic Bishops said, “Since the President, who appointed the heads of the nation’s security agencies has refused to caution them even in the face of the chaos and barbarity into which our country has been plunged, we are left with no choice but to conclude that they are acting a script that he approves of. If the President cannot keep our country safe, then he automatically loses the trust of the citizens.”
In a communiqué, entitled, ‘When will this barbarism end?,’ and signed by its President, Most Rev. Augustine Akubeze, and Secretary, Most Rev. Camillus Umoh, the bishops lamented that the increasing attacks by the suspected herdsmen had turned the country into a massive graveyard.
“We are sad. We are angry. We feel totally exposed and most vulnerable. Faced with these dark clouds of fear and anxiety, our people are daily being told by some to defend themselves.
Lamenting that all appeals to the President to tackle the security challenges have fallen on deaf ears, the Bishops said, “He should no longer continue to preside over the killing fields and mass graveyard that our country has become. Repeated calls from us and many other Nigerians on the President to take very drastic and urgent steps to reverse this ugly tragedy that threatens the foundation of our collective existence and unity as a nation have fallen on deaf ears.”