Catholic Bishop Decries High-Level Corruption, Killings, Kidnappings In Nigeria

Catholic Bishops on Sunday lamented the high-level corruption in Nigeria and asked the government to enhance the economy and address poverty.

The Bishops also noted the mindless bloodletting and kidnapping in Imo State and other parts of the country.

President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, decried Nigeria’s situation while delivering a sermon at a thanksgiving Mass, held at Maria Assumpta Cathedral, Owerri, in honour of the 2024 Armed Forces Remembrance Day and Governor Hope Uzodimma’s re-election.

Ugorji said: “Corruption is a worrisome vice in our public life. It has gone beyond scale and measure. Corruption is a very complex reality involving moral rottenness, defilement, and loss of integrity.

“It spans a very wide spectrum, ranging from bribery, embezzlement, inflation of bills, abuse of office, nepotism to the looting of public property, cultism, impersonation, false declaration, examination malpractice, alteration of date of birth, ghost worker syndrome, quackery, and manipulation.”

“Corruption is corrosive, polluting, debasing, and infectious. Already contaminated, the lives of most of our people, young and old, are deeply steeped in corruption,” he added.