Catholic Church urges Tinubu to boost food production, reduce inflation

Remembers victims of stampede

Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Most Revd Ignatius Kaigama, has said the stampede that occurred during the Church’s yearly Christmas items distribution, where 10 people lost their lives and 11 others were injured, was never as a result of negligence.

According to Kaigama, the Catholic Church is the world’s largest non-governmental body providing healthcare services with its over 100,000 charity and healthcare centres, which include hospitals and dispensaries, care homes for people with leprosy, homes for the elderly or the chronically ill, and people with disability, among others.
 
The cleric stated that poverty robs people of their dignity and that individual action and political decisions must be geared towards the good of the poor. He said: “It was because they were hungry that they came and their hunger is not the fault of the Catholic Church. The large crowd outside the church premises created pressure and panic. This led to a struggle as individuals scrambled to gain entry through the church gate, which resulted in the fatalities and injuries.”