I HAVE QUESTIONS FOR MY CHRISTIAN LEADERS IN NIGERIA My questions are as follows: 1. Does Christianity support that #2.6trillion fuel subsidy should be stolen in a year that only #245 billion Naira was appropriated for same? 2. Does Christianity support that N32 billion police pension scam should be buried? 3. Does Christianity support the industrial scale theft of crude oil worth about $2 billion monthly? 4. Does Christianity support N53 billion NCC spectrum scale racket? 5. Does Christianity support the millions of barrels of oil worth $1.6 billion being stolen through signature forgery monthly, according to minister Aganga? 6. Does Christianity support bullet proof car scandal involving the former minister of aviation Stella Odauh? 7. Does Christianity support spending a whooping #400 billion on amnesty programme sending Nigerian youths abroad to learn crafts and other skills, without realizing that it would have made more sense establishing vocational centers in the Niger Delta. I mean do we have an idea how many vocational centers that could have been established with that amount of money; which would have trained and continue to re-train people from Niger Delta and possibly from other parts of Nigeria? 8. Does Christianity support #1.7 trillion ($20 billion) heist in the NNPC where the money was spent by the co-operation without appropriation? 9. Does Christianity support the excess crude oil account being depleted everyday without evidence of what it is being used for? 10. Does Christianity support that NNPC should not be audited? 11. Does Christianity support the kind of money we spend in running government in Nigeria, where it cost on the average a billion naira to maintain one legislator, ten billion to maintain a minister of petroleum and mind blowing sum to maintain a president? I mean does it support a situation where less than 10,000 people in the name of leadership consume the nation’s wealth, while ordinary workers earn 18,000 minimum wages. And; 12. Does Christianity condone blood suckers? If our answer is no, then there is something wrong with the kind of Christianity we are practicing in Nigeria. And if the answer is no, why are we not speaking out? Why the conspiracy of silence? As a Christian one of the things i was thought in my early years is that the church is the ground and pillar of truth. With this knowledge i grew up abhorring stealing and many other vices that i see amongst young men of my age. But it appears i was lied to. Because considering the kind of support corrupt and blood thirsty politicians receive from church leaders today, i am almost convinced i was being deceived into believing those virtues of truth and honesty. There is conspiracy of silence amongst the religious church leaders even in the face of unimaginable sufferings that their congregants are going through in the hands of Nigerian political leadership. Although we are being made to understand that church leaders have a way of advising the political leadership without blowing their trumpet. But why should there be double standards in the preaching of truth? How can church leaders be preaching truth to this corrupt behemoth only in the secret? Why should they tell us the truth to our faces in the open congregations every Sunday but cannot tell our leaders the truth to their face and to our hearing? Does it mean they are trying to say the truth in a manner not to jeopardize their personal interest? Or have they become afraid of those who can kill the body but are not able to kill the body and the soul? Believe me, i am not about to stop being a Christian because i know Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith will not tolerate the mess going on amongst us. The Jesus i know will not tolerate those who loot their society and bring untold hardship on the people. My Jesus will not hand over microphone to a politician who is looting the nation’s treasury and causing untold hardship in the land to come and preach to the saints of God. The Jesus i know will only give them the opportunity to repent if they are sincere. He will not be found hobnobbing and sharing money with those who loot their country blind and send women and young children to their early grave. With all these killings and lootings going on, it will be tantamount to hypocrisy and outright wickedness for the church leaders to continue to keep quiet or to continue to pretend that all is well with Nigeria. Should church leaders continue to support the evil leadership simply because these men claim to be of Christian faith or because they claim to be ruling on behalf of Christians? I am not preaching self righteousness, but i believe that there are virtues that the church is known for and which we must stand up and defend before it becomes late.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:35:34 +0000
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