Cardinal and Catholic archbishop of Abuja, John Onaiyekan, says clerics who incite church members to violence should be arrested.

Onaiyekan said this while speaking at a workshop on ‘Preventing Violent Extremism in Nigeria’, organised by Club De Madrid in collaboration on Tuesday

“There is enough in the law in Nigeria to curb reckless speaking, if somebody stands up on his pulpit in church and start inciting his members to go and kill others, he has committed a crime under the Nigerian Law, he should be arrested, which is not happening,” Onaiyekan said.

“They would say if you touch religious leaders there would be backlash. Let the backlash come for goodness sake, so that we can get out of all this mess.”