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REPLY TO CHURCH LEADERS ACCEPTING TO JOIN THE QUEST FOR PEACE AND UNITY THE CATALYST FOR STATE AND NATIONAL GROWTH. We all are affected and cannot afford to behave like it does not concern us. I hate pretenders and sycophants continuously fanning the flame of disunity and violence when the state suffers . My position has always been projecting the benefits of peace than their wrongs for none of them or any incoming Governor is perfect, including the writer . Our generation cannot continue to show indifference to the expectations of good patriotism devoid of any selfish immediate gratification. Echoing it is their business is a defeatist approach to the issue. The color of our State in the coming months should be a reflection of our unity more than our division. The argument that democracy upholds the divergence of thoughts and political ideologies is not at variance with the writers position as long as the core element or rather essence ; ... For the people, is not suffocated by our individualized interest . Generally, the purpose of democracy irrespective of schools of politics should be making the lives of the people better by the people involved in both choosing and administering Governance. Development is and has always been the child of peace and unity. Nothing is built well when one builds and the other member of the family destroys. Abia is our new family, so small that we need to work together for our growth. No Governor can do it alone. Against all odds, participation, participation, participation is all I call on our generation to do for our future is now in our hands. Where politicians for ages have been bedeviled and the career heavily stigmatized especially by the church does not motivate any new entrant with a desire to make a lasting change. Sincerely, the church community which we all represent has failed our people in Governance. Little wonder the biblical scripture the children of the world has become wiser than the children of the kingdom constantly and loudly echoes in my mind . The church has misconstrued the WORLD in the go ye into the world and preach the truth as merely geographical rather than including the following ; the entertainment WORLD, the economic WORLD, the social WORLD as well as the political WORLD. How can your voice be heard by a targeted audience if you are too far from them. Fathers of sociology like August Comte, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber have always advocated for participatory observation ie getting the seats of your pants dirty as the best approach in finding the truth in cognitive sociology. I seem to fully agree with them, that the only way to make an impact is by participation, that way one locates the problems easily and proffers a direct solution. The church should participate in politics. The in God we trust foundation of the Great America was laid down by the Church who were involved in politics. The society of America stands on that foundation up till now. The silence of the church in Governance is deafening, we have become so heavenly conscious that we suddenly become earthly irrelevant . Yet He asked us to subdue the earth, multiply and take charge . When we say thy kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven I wonder how much of its significance that we realize, He intended when He taught us that prayer. In His kingdom, his children are in charge not distant observers. It is time we got into Governing WORLD to preach the truth. It is a command that the church has been reluctant to obey. We were not just saved to go to heaven but to first be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. The church is my immediate constituency which has failed Abia State and Nigeria because of our holier than thou attitude to politics. We have been consumed by fear that we cannot make a sufficient positive impact, but this is not true. In 1993/94 the church under the Joint Campus Christain Fellowship ( JCCF), decided to support me and others for the University of Calabar Student Union Government elections and we became a formidable force that no one could stop. This model could work again, remember David asked .... Shall I pursue, if I pursue shall I over take and if I pursue and over take, shall I possession my possession? And the answer yes to all his questions. Let the church arise in Abia State, let the church arise in Nigeria for the earnest expectation of the creatures awaits the manifestation of the sons of God. Bar. Benjamin O. Kalu
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:48:41 +0000

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