Catholic bishop of Sokoto diocese, Matthew Kukah has said it is only the use of explosives that separates the federal government from Boko Haram terrorists.

Kukah who spoke with Catholic Charity Aid to the Church in Need, in the UK, said the federal government was deploying different strategy to achieve the same aim of Islamic dominance like Boko Haram

According to PUNCH, Kukah spoke on the killing of 10 Christians by the Islamic State West Africa Province on Christmas eve.

He averred that the inability of the federal government end Boko Haram insurgency had given the group the leeway to operate as it is doing currently.

“The only difference between the government and Boko Haram is (that) Boko Haram is holding a bomb,” Kukah was quoted as saying.

“They are using the levers of power to secure the supremacy of Islam, which then gives more weight to the idea that it can be achieved by violence. With the situation in Nigeria, it is hard to see the moral basis they have to defeat Boko Haram.

“They have created the conditions to make it possible for Boko Haram to behave the way they are behaving.

“If they have countries where everybody is Muslim in power, then you give vent to the idea that Islam should be supreme,” he added