Ibekimi Oriamaja Reports
Rt Rev Victor Okporu, the ANGLICAN Bishop of the Western Izon Diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bendel, has bemoaned the painful and crushing insecurity that now exists in the nation.
He also criticized the nation’s enormous debt load.
Speaking at the second session of the fifth synod of the Diocese at St. Barnabas Anglican Church in Sagbama, Bayelsa State, Okporu remarked that the government had fallen short of its fundamental and constitutional obligations to safeguard the lives and property of its inhabitants.
The cleric declared: “The situation in our beloved Nigeria is quite alarming. What should we say about the country’s rising violence and the slow deterioration of our once-progressive civilization into a state of near anarchy?
“killings of innocent Nigerians by killer herders, bandits, Boko-Haram, and terrorists of all stripes, including known and unidentified gunmen, are callous and vicious.
“The story is the same sad lamentation of insecurity, economic problems, decadence in education, corruption that is unmatched anywhere, nepotism, injustice at all levels, sign signaling terrible governance and even failed state, from the North to the South, East to the West.
“Insecurity in Nigeria was a significant issue for earlier governments, but the Buhari-led government assured Nigerians in 2015 that it would be eradicated. However, with only nine months left in his eight years and two terms in office, instability has tragically taken on a remarkable scope.
“It is quite alarming today that it has become a nightmare to travel by road in Nigeria as such travels are at the risk of the undertaker.”
