Rt. Rev. Msgr. (Dr.) John Aniagwu is the parish priest of St. Leo’s Catholic Church, Ikeja and the Vicar - General of the Metropolitan See of Lagos Archdiocese.
Rt. Rev. Msgr. John Aniagwu is the parish priest of St. Leo’s Catholic Church, Ikeja and the Vicar – General of the Metropolitan See of Lagos Archdiocese. In this interview with OBIRE ONAKEMU, he speaks on the state of the nation, lamenting the escalating assault on the church, especially the Catholic Church, and declaring that Catholic priests have become an endangered species with the recent murder of Rev. Fr.
I really can’t explain why we have a persistent attack on the Catholic Church in particular. A few months ago, that was last year, one of our priests was killed in Kaduna State. And a few days ago, Rev. Fr. Isaac Achi was martyred in Niger State. We have really lost count of Catholic priests that were killed in cold blood in this country since last year January till date.
That will create a lot of chaos in the country; it will lead to a state of complete anarchy and there will be an unprecedented escalation of violence. Rather, what I would ask for is that we should have state police. Let every state has its own police to provide security in it’s area. If we have state police and the state police in every state are sufficiently equipped, there will be no need for individuals to carry arms. The state police will take care of that.
If only the right leaders are in place in these past seven years, everybody would have been taken care of and brought on board. There will be no discrimination against certain sections of the country. The kind of references that come out of the current leaders about certain sections of the country is very toxic, very toxic for that matter. When leaders will be saying terrible things about certain sections of the country that they are supposed to be governing.
Now, if only we want ASUU to put an end to this incessant crises in the sector, the country must decide to fund our education to the tune of at least 20 per cent of our annual budget and not the current pittance that they are giving to education –5 per cent, 6 per cent, 7 per cent. You cannot have a good education with that kind of funding. If we don’t fund education, we are going to remain perpetually backward and underdeveloped.
I don’t have any advice for them; they can do what they like. I am only advising the electorate to go there and vote sensibly.
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