Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah Matthew Hassan Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, is not just a religious leader, he is also a social critic, and a moral crusader. Kukah is courageous, bold, fearless and outspoken. He is never given to semantics, nor to pretences. He tells truth to power, and says things as he sees them, without colouration, without painting of words, not minding whose ox is to be gored. Matthew Kukah is a stormy petrel, he is a Socratic gadfly. For more than two decades, Kukah has been in the public space, pricking the conscience of Nigerians. In his sermons on the pulpits, in his several public lectures, his numerous interviews on radio and television, and articles on pages of newspapers and magazines, Matthew Kukah always bares his mind, attacking and criticizing the injustices in Nigerian society.