'Leave Fuel Subsidy Removal For Now, Concentrate on Boko Haram' - Bishop Kukah
BISHOP MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH’S THOUGHTS ON THE STATE OF THE NATION. Excerpts: The posture of the Federal Government of Nigeria in refusing to engage the populace with regard to the fuel subsidy issue is unacceptable, because the citizens must have a say in how they are governed in every democracy. Dividends of democracy cannot only be measured by the number of infrastructure a particular administration is able to give to its citizens but by the level of fundamental rights of the citizens. Democracy is not about infrastructure. If is measured by infrastructure then South Africa should have continued under apartheid because, most of the infrastructure in South Africa was put in place by the apartheid regime in that country. So also is Germany, if democracy were about infrastructure, the Germans should apologize to Adolf Hitler because Hitler developed Germany. Good governance goes beyond infrastructure, any system of government that denies its citizens a say is courting trouble for the...