ofala:
Just one question: did Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka lie when he said Nigeria is being misruled at the moment?

At wat of our history has Nigeria not been MISRULED? Nonsense talk. If na BABA dey rule una fit make kpre?

temitemi1:
The man should stop his spiritual drama jaree n face what God ask him to do which is redemption of souls n nt a campaign manager for apc. Who knows if God truely calld him self. GEJ till 2019!!!

you are a fool.. don't screw ya self

Whatever.

What if after all the whole noise,campaign,GEJ still win?

This so called reverend father is a disgrace to his priesthood office. A priest promoting anarchy and strife contrary to scripture. The Bible admonish us to pray for those in authority so that we can live a peaceful and quite life. I've never heard Muslim clerics speak against Abacha or Babangida during their draconian reign . Can this man point the roads, airports, seaports, rail lines or power lines constructed by Buhari or IBB that GEJ destroyed in the South East. I decree by the unction of the Holy Ghost if Mbaka is a fake priest, let God exposed him by fire in Jesus name. If he is called and chosen by God, may his priesthood be replaced like that of Judas Iscariot in Jesus name(Amen).

customized13:
APC is trying everything they can to get to ndigbo, they need southeast if they want to win the election.

Its a pity mbaka is now a tool for political manipulation.

You don't think SW, NW, NE, some of SS votes are enough to win. I sorry for SE, they are not pitching their tent with wisdom.

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This is nothing but, tale by the fireside. Journalism at its lowest level. Mushroom journalism, shame, shame, shame and leadership expect us to believe this folktale.

Things would have been better in Nigeria if only 10% of our priests were this courageous.

Bravo to the truth and Bravo to priest Mbaka.


Nigeria must rise again.

Buhari/ Osinbajo 2015

customized13:
by explaining why fr mbaka made those comments.

PDP should not be playing defensive.

What were his explanations
If I may ask..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UR5g69sx9E

some so called men of God are becoming smfin else, dis is time for prayers. nt politics. i keep wondering catholic faith is like muslim faith.dey all fink same way and dats why gboko pple attacked dem severally

Being Honest as a man of God is simply the right thing to do.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a man of God speaking about the state of things in the country. In fact, nothing is better than a man of God discussing things that are negatively affecting the entire country (including the members of the church).

This is an example of a true leader; the man has done nothing but displayed a magnificent leadership role (which isn't too common in Nigeria). For this reason I can understand why some of us here (pin-heads) refuse to see the light. We've been robbed, financially and also mentally. therefore, some of us may never see till the end of time.

Instead of pointing fingers at Mbaka, you people should advise your president to step down and avoid embarrassment.

Leadership newspaper blowing lies since 1960.

ofala:
Just one question: did Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka lie when he said Nigeria is being misruled at the moment?

NOoooo
NOOOOOO
Noooooo

Truth at its peck

myhoodlink:
It's no longer news that the Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria has been fighting President GEJ and Pastor Ayo. God will vindicate His people. God on our side, victory is sure. God bless President GEJ.

why should God bless GEJ ..what has he done for an ordinary citizen of this country ..the only thing he could have done is to provide electricity ..if he had done the needful ...he will not need to campaign ..and there will be no buhari or APC ..so GEJ till no more forever

arsetalks:
Did you watch the video? If you did, how is that jumping into politics? Does the fact that he is a priest mean he doesn't have the right to air his voice on issues that will end up affecting him, his family and the people GOD put in his charge?

I guess the truth is bitter. One would have expected you PDP asslickers to go the extra mile of refuting each of the man's allegation.

Go on, do it, prove his allegations false. I challenge you to do it.

my humble question is why is the Fr singing hossana and fighting the same person in a space of on month? considering his past regarding politics, he always get it wrong. at least we are all familiar with the chimaroke story. is better he keep to his calling. am so touched with the rain of abuse on him, even from pastors and rev frs

FG owes 70,000 workers three-month salaries
DECEMBER 30, 2014 BY FRIDAY OLOKOR, JUDE OWUAMANAM, OLUFEMI ATOYEBI, FEMI MAKINDE, SUCCESS NWOGU, STEPHEN UKA AND DANIEL GBABO
Coordinating Minister for the economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
No fewer than 70,000 civil servants in 30 Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government have yet to receive their three months’ salaries.
The Secretary-General of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, Mr. Alade Lawal, made this known just as investigations by The PUNCH revealed that states like Osun, Oyo, Benue and Plateau are owing their workers between three and four months’ salaries.
Prominent among the ministries listed by Lawal during an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja on Monday are Education, Works, Labour and Productivity, Mines and Power.
He said, “About eight MDAs have been owing workers their salaries from October. The number rose to 11 in November and in December, hit 30, including departments and agencies.”
Asked what was responsible for the increase in the number of MDAs indebted to their workers, Lawal said some government officials involved in salary payments were engaged in a game of deceit.
He said, “They are telling us that some of the MDAs are involved in expenditure items different from salaries. They said they were spending on items not related to salaries. But that is not supposed to be the fault of the workers.
“There should be synergy in government whereby they have to work in tandem with the Budget Office and Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation. They know what they are doing, they are muddling up the whole exercise and suffering workers unnecessarily.”
He said the government had no tangible reason for not paying the workers, having promised to do so before December 24.
“As of December 22, they promised us that before Wednesday, December 24, these payments would be made. But as I am talking to you now, affected workers have not been paid.
“The Ministry of Works alone has about 26,000 workers. If you add them together, they can’t be less than 70,000 workers that are affected.
“We have been liaising with our people. But you know, this is a festive period and it has affected some of the trade union actions we intended taking. The promise that they made last week which they also told the press that they would pay before Christmas, we thought they were serious about it. But latest developments indicate that they are deceiving us.”
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had in a statement by her Special Adviser on Communication, Mr. Paul Nwabuikwu, on December 22 promised that the salary arrears of civil servants in MDAs would be paid before Christmas.
The PUNCH gathered on Monday that civil servants in states like Osun, Oyo, Benue, Plateau and Abia had a bleak Christmas as they are being owed between two and four-month salaries.
In Osun State for instance, the Chairman of state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr. Saka Adesiyan, told one of our correspondents in Osogbo that workers were being owed October, November and December salaries.
The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Mr. Boye Abolarin, also confirmed that secondary school teachers were being owed October, November and December salaries.
Abolarin said that workers were subjected to hardship while politicians were feeding fat especially during the Yuletide.
Governor Rauf Aregbesola, however, blamed the development on the dwindling monthly allocations to the state.
Aregbesola, in a statement made available to our correspondent by his media aide, Semiu Okanlawon, said, “Either at the federal or at the state level, where is it that workers are being paid as and when due?
“We thought this situation will not last long. That was why we used our strategic reserve to augment salaries for one year. All our savings were spent on augmentation of salaries.”
In Oyo, the state NLC Chairman, Basiru Alli, said that the November and December salaries of some workers were being awaited.
He said, “I will not say that government in the state is owing us, it is actually delaying payment of workers salaries. As of now, not all workers have been paid November salaries. Some are still waiting for theirs. We do not know when the December salary will come.”
Asked what efforts the NLC was making to ensure all the workers got paid, Alli said that they were told by the government that dwindling allocations from the Federal Government were responsible.
“We hold consultations with the government from time to time and what we were told the last time was that it was not a deliberate attempt to delay the salaries but due to dwindling allocations, the state had to manage its resources.”
But the Special Adviser to Governor Abiola Ajimobi on Media, Dr. Festus Adedayo, said that all workers had been paid November salaries.
He said, “The state government is passionate about staff welfare. We are handicapped by the dwindling allocations from the Federal Government. We have a wage bill of N4.9bn but the allocation we have this month was N2.9bn. Last month, the state got N3.1bn from the Federal Government. We are working hard to ensure workers are paid the December salaries.”
The situation in Benue State is not better as the government is also currently owing three months’ salaries.
Before the Yuletide, the government owed workers five months’ salaries but it paid two months’ salaries at different intervals.
A civil servant, who pleaded anonymity told The PUNCH that a day to Christmas, some of his colleagues received alert for one month salary while on Monday, others received alert for their second salary payment.
The civil servant explained that they could not enjoy the Yuletide due to the debts they had incurred.
He said, “What the state government paid to us was used to settle debts .
“Mind you, we from the mainstream civil service are not on any industrial action but the state is currently owing us three month-salaries. I can tell you that the situation is worse for lecturers as they have been on half salaries for five months.”
Investigations by The PUNCH in Abia State indicated that while civil servants in the ministries had received their November and December salaries, their counterparts in the parastatals were being owed some months .
The Chairman, NLC in the state, Sylvanus Eye, said workers in the parastatals had not been paid November and December salaries.
He added that teachers as well as council workers were also being owed arrears of two months.
The state leadership of NLC had about three weeks ago picketed the office of the Accountant General over the salary arrears of the parastatal workers and for allegedly witholding check- off dues of the union.
When contacted, the Accountant General, Gabriel Onyendilefu, said that “the function of payment is dependent on available cash”.
He explained that in the past five months, the state’s allocations from the federation accounts had been dwindling following the constant fall in the price of crude oil.
In Kogi State, local governments’ workers complained that they only received half of their salaries for October and November.
They alleged that they still had some backlogs of salaries that were not fully paid.
A source, who pleaded anonymity, said the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, had informed them that they would receive alert of their December payment on Tuesday(today).
The NLC Chairman, Plateau State chapter, Mr. Jibrin Bancir, told one of our correspondents that the government was owing many workers four months arrears of salaries and leave grants.
The worst hit are local government workers who have not been paid for about seven months.
Meanwhile, the NLC has directed its state chapters to furnish it with actual state of affairs in connection with the salary arrears.
Noting that it was criminal for any government to owe workers their salaries, the NLC said it would take a firm decision in a couple of days on the issue.
The General Secretary of the congress, Mr. Peter Ozo-Eson, stated this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Ilorin on Monday.
He said, “We have not taken a firm decision on what to do until we get actual information on which state, what is owed, how many months and the actual amount from all the state councils. We hope that within a couple of days, these reports would have got to us and we would take a firm position on them.
“We would rely on the reports that we get from our state chapters. We are asking our state to advise us on salary payments and if there are debts. Based on that we are going to collate take appropriate actions in relation to getting those salaries paid.
“We condemn any state government that is owing arrears of salaries because the workers must be the first to be paid before they start spending on any other issue.”
Ozo-Eson said it was worrisome that even the Federal Government was owing some categories of its workers for about three months.
He lamented that some state chapters of the NLC did not give the national body a report on time that their members were being owed.
He stated that payment of workers’ salaries should be made a priority.
The NLC secretary said, “For us, it is criminal for any government not to pay workers’ salaries, accumulate them over months while the governors and other political office holders take their own salaries. Such is criminal. We are also aware that even the Federal Government is owing some categories of civil servants their salaries for over three months.
“This is extremely unacceptable. Whatever is the reason for that! In the case of the Federal Government, they try to explain it in terms of problems with migration to IPPIS system.We think whatever is the logic, those salaries and arrears need to be paid immediately.
“On state governments that are owing, unfortunately some of the NLC chapters did not bring it to our notice early enough for us to know that salaries are owed. If you owe a worker salary for a month, you have no moral obligation to expect workers to come and render any service.
“So to hear that there are states and large number of them that are owing workers for two or three months is completely unacceptable.”
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arsetalks:
How do you know what he was saying was not ordained by GOD?

How do you know GOD did not call him? Because he spoke against your pay master?

And you know God called him because he spoke for your paymaster