Cardinal Onaiyekan and arrogance of ignorancne

A s young students of St. Augustine’s College Kabba, between the late 1980s and early 1990s, a certain Bishop John Onaiyekan, Bishop of Abuja Diocese, was one of our most revered role models, along with other eminent Catholic clergymen and prominent sons and daughters of Kabba town, Kogi State, such as Bishop Joseph Ajomo and Bishop Aloysius Makozi as well as Air Vice Marshal Femi John Femi, then Chief of Air Staff, Architect Stephen Olurunfemi [Steve Ben], businessman and politician, Ambassador Joseph Lewu, Nigeria’s then ambassador to the Republic of Brazil, and Col. Bello Fadile, among many others. Every week, during the morning general assembly, our principal, Mr. Ikenazor. from Ihia...