Jonathan Should’ve Thought Of Something Important Than National Conference – CATHOLIC BISHOP

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Public Affairs commentator and Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah has declared that the proposed National Conference scheduled to begin next month will not achieve any tangible result for the people of Nigeria.

The outspoken cleric, who spoke to Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, monitored in Abuja, noted that the proposed conference would not be an avenue to genuinely discuss the problems confronting the country, saying
it would rather be a place for political gossip, even as he accused President Goodluck Jonathan of inviting mostly politicians to the conference.

Bishop Kukah said that worsening living conditions of many Nigerians does not
necessarily require the convocation of a national conference for them to be addressed and therefore accused the president of governing the country without conscience. He also decried the current political situation in Nigeria.

According to him, “The entire landscape is riddled with all kinds of characters some with criminal records, who come into politics simply because it is the only way they can earn a living”.

He said that Mr. Jonathan should have presented the idea of the national conference as one of his campaign manifestos before the 2011 presidential elections.

“Jonathan should have thought of something important than proposing national conference that had drawn divergent views”, the cleric maintained.

Speaking on the occasion of the signing of Tripartite Partnership Agreement among the American Specialist Hospital Limited, GE Healthcare (USA) and Edifice Capital (France) for the $73 million American Specialist Hospital for Women and Children. Bishop Matthew Kukah, has described the N7billion earmarked for the proposed national conference as a waste of resources. Kukah insisted that the exercise would not result in any fundamental difference in the condition of the country, describing it further as another forum for political noise-making.

Bishop Kukah, who was Secretary of the National Political Reform Conference in 2005 said, N932 million was proposed by President Olusegun Obasanjo for the conference. Reacting to the N7billion proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan for the conference in an interview with journalists in Abuja, Kukah said, “N7 billion is just pocket money, it is chicken fee by Nigerian standard, considering how much money have been stolen from this country.

“Frankly, even if they are going to commit N10 billion for people to stay in hotels in Nigeria, the money is not the issue, building a nation is a serious matter,” he said.

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Lol. Now thats one point blank opinion there. The government only give lip-service solutions to the problem of the country and that is why things keep getting worse despite all the whole furray! This same CONFAB quick-fix solution has been done in the government of previous regime and has yielded nothing meanngful. so i guess Bishop kukah is talking from experience and not mincing words

In your own opinion, what do you think the government should have done to solve the common problems of her citizens, other than this CONFAB that has been planned to do a mere "dicussion" of the nation's unity.