Sokoto, 03 July, 2023 / 9:45 pm (ACI Africa).
Nigeria’s Federal Government needs to facilitate Christians’ acquisition of land for building places of worship, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Nigeria’s Sokoto Diocese has said.
Speaking to journalists after celebrating Holy Mass for the opening of the 119 Nigerian Airforce (NAF) Composite Group Catholic Chaplaincy in Sokoto State, Bishop Kukah said government establishments in Africa’s most populous country have been breaching the law on religious freedom.
“You will believe that in some parts of this country where there is such federal government presence, people are unnecessarily nervous about giving Christians land to build their church,” the Bishop said Sunday, July 2.
He said, “Nigerians should not be begging for this section of the law to be enforced.”
“We are not even asking the Federal Government to give us money to build these Churches (Protestants and Catholics), in some places, but all we are saying is that they should give us the land and we will go ahead and build our Church.”
