In reaction to President Muhammadu Buhari Democracy Day speech/address to the nation, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, said the church was dissatisfied with the President remarks on the killer herdsmen and frowned at it.
In a message issued by Director, Social Communications at the Catholic
Secretariat of Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Chris Anyanwu, the Catholic Bishops described the president’s passing reference to the killer herdsmen as vague and evasive.
They said the Catholic community in Nigeria expected to hear that the killer herdsmen and their sponsors had been arrested and were being prepared for prosecution.
The Bishops charged the President to demonstrate to the church through
concrete actions that he had the capacity to secure every citizen, irrespective of religious inclination, by the prompt arrest of the killer herdsmen.
The Bishops said: “It is unacceptable to the church that President Muhammadu Buhari simply made a vague reference to the killer herdsmen in his Democracy Day speech.
“We find his promise to bring the killer herdsmen to full wrath of the law as evasive and the Catholic Church is not comfortable with that. We had hoped to hear him tell the nation that the murderous herdsmen have been arrested and being made ready for prosecution.”