Reverend Father Vitus Vaishima Borogo was killed on June 25, 2022 while his brother, CY Borogo, was kidnapped by his abductors.
Meanwhile, Catholic priests of the Kaduna Archdiocese embarked on a peaceful protest after the funeral mass of the slain priest.
The priests carried placards with inscriptions such as ‘we are priests and not terrorists’, ‘government should secure Nigerians’, ‘anyone who kill lost his/her right to life’, ‘justice must be served’ , ‘do we still have a government?’ among others.
The Catholic Archbishop of Kaduna Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Man-Oso Ndagoso, lamented that Nigerians were held prisoners in their own country because of persistent attacks and killings in the country.
Ndagoso said Nigerians were traumatised at the stage of loosing hope, adding that some Nigerians had no reason to live again because of the way things were going on in the land.
According to him, it is so painful that within one year the church has buried three priests who died in the hands of bandits, adding that the most painful one was the of the late Rev. Father Aketeh whose burial took place last three weeks without his corpse.
The cleric said, “Over my 60 years of age, we have not seen it this bad as it is now. Even during the civil war, it was not bad as it is now. Something is wrong with leadership of this country. We live in confusion in this country.
“We no longer have tears in our eyes because the source of our tears have dried up because of constant crying. We have also lost our voices because when you talk, nobody listens. You cry, nobody hears your cry but we will not loose hope. One day, God will wipe our tears.”
Ndagoso also advised that government should recruit young people who are willing to safeguard this country, adding that there were so many millions of young men who are willing to defend their land.
“Any politician who can not secure Nigerians should not be vying for any political position. It is better the person withdraw from the race,” he added.
Also speaking, the Vice Chairman of the Indigenous Priests of Kaduna, Rev. Father Joseph Gandu, called on the government to secure lives and property of Nigerians.
This, he said, remained the responsibility of any government.
Gandu noted that nobody had any right to kill, saying that human lives were sacred.
