Catholic bishop of Sokoto diocese Matthew Kukah on Monday lamented the state of the country during a speech at the opening of the 61st annual general conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
The conference, which is beig held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, had Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike and his Sokoto State counterpart Aminu Tambuwal among others in attendance.
In his keynote address, Kukah said, “They (youths) cannot protest; if you carry a laptop, you are labelled a yahoo boy. The sign that Nigerian youths are tired is the heavy traffic to other countries. Now, there is internal hostility between the young and the old.”
Kukah denied being against the Buhari administration, adding that he is only exercising his freedom of expression and “speaking his mind.”
“I do not know any other country that amends its constitution more frequently than Nigeria, and starts all over again; so much that talking about constitutional amendment attracts derision.
“The US in hundreds of years has amended their constitution only 27 times. Yet, our problems seem tied to our constitution; its inability to solve problems that confront the nation,” he said.
