WHERE IS OUR PASTORS?
by Lugard Ekhator on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 12:41pm

Fellow Nigerians, it is very sad and disturbing at this critical moment of our collective push, for a better standard of life of the Nigerian populace, the silence of our so called Daddy GOs, Bishops, Pastors and their co-travellers.

The Nigerian masses are in the Streets, protesting the painful and arbitrary increase of Petrol price, by President Goodluck Jonathan, in the name of removing Oil Subsidy, a ploy to hike the pump price of Petrol because, there is nothing like oil subsidy in the first place.

The whole concept is an imagination of the privileged few, as led by President Jonathan, to continually traumatise the lives of the ordinary Nigerians, relying on our long and debasing sense of speaking against injustice and corruption, which do culminate in holding our leaders responsible for their actions.

A duty call beckons on all citizens of Nigeria, to protect the future of our children, and our Pastors are playing hide and seek with our collective and patriotic sense, especially the Christian Communities. This is so annoying; remembering the many overtures and encomiums the so called Pastors has poured on the Jonathan's government.

Charity they say begins at home. If as a fellow Christian, seeing the danger our Pastors are plunging us into and refused to speak against it, it then means that, I accepted their biased sense of judgement.

Looking at the way and manner our Pastors preached and presented the candidacy of Goodluck Jonathan, as the MESSIAH that has come to rescue Nigeria, from the brink of collapse, during the electioneering period, all because, Jonathan was termed a Christian, you will be annoyed seeing them becoming DUMB now.

During the elections, our Pastors preached, mobilised and voted Jonathan sentimentally, throwing caution to the wind. A call that was strictly followed by the gullible Christians especially, from the Southern parts of Nigeria. Even the high percentage of the results that Jonathan scored in the North, was propelled by the Christians, who were not voting for a candidate but for RELIGION.

The lesson that has been learned so far from the Jonathan's inability to put a permanent solution to the menace of the Boko Haram sect, and his willingness to purposely inflicts pains and hardship on the Nigerian populace is a bitter one, which every living Christian today, who voted for Jonathan during the elections never wanted nor pray to happen.

In the midst of a terrible INSECURITY in the land, the Jonathan administration went ahead to present a new YEAR package of hardship to Nigerians, while announcing a 116% increase in the price of PMS (Petrol), from N65 a litre to a whopping N141 a litre.

Any Pastor with his/her moral senses, that sees this day light killing by the Jonathan's government and kept quiet is nothing but, a false Pastor. In fact, such a Pastor is a demon personified.

Now, it is very true that, some of our Pastors are political contractors to the Jonathan's government. After all, they sang his praises and directed their churches and members to vote for nobody else except Jonathan.

Now that, their calculations or idea of a true leader has been defeated, through the vexatious and chronics policies of the Jonathan's administrations, they choose to rather bury their heads in shame.

I therefore DARE any Pastor, to counter my claims here, over their suddenly silence, since President Jonathan announced the new fuel price on January 1, 2012. Even if I have no CONTRETE evidence to support my claims, it is a known fact that, Jonathan's overwhelming results in the South is a direct justification of my claims.

Therefore, Pastors, if you are for us, LEAD your churches and congregations to the Streets and register your rejection of this DEADLY and anti people’s policy of President Jonathan.

Prove to us that, Jonathan has erred with this introduction of new fuel price and then, WE will know that, we are not hearing the voice of Jacob and feeling the hair of Esau.

A word is enough for the wise. Good day our Pastors!

i can see no one wants to talk here, is it that people fear and worship these men of "God" or they just don't know what to say?

What do you want them to do for you and Nigeria?, that you can't ask God directly for.

ronkebp:

What do you want them to do for you and Nigeria?, that you can't ask God directly for.

WHEN IT'S TIME FOR TITHE AND OFFERINGS, THEY DO THE COLLECTING ON EARTH AND THEY CLAIM TO REPRESENT GOD ON EARTH, BUT WHEN IT'S TIME TO FIGHT FOR THE MASSES, YOU SAY I SHOULD ASK GOD TO COME DOWN AND MATCH WITH US? SMH!!!

^^^^ So you want them to carry placard to march and protest abi? Tithe and offering has nothing to do with the subsidy, nobody is forced to pay tithes, whoever does that is following Gods injunctions and obeying God personally.

^^^

no one says they should carry placards but why is most of them not talking at all? either for or against? why? if the lives of their members become worse, won't it affect them?

yes, they force people to give tithe and offerings because they love to quote Malachi like a national anthem every Sunday, threatening us with locus and canker-worm if we don't pay tithe.

if you don'y give tithes, you're a sinner in their books!

Thank God one of them is already talking, seems he heard some of us.

It’ll trigger serious violence – Okonkwo

JANUARY 9, 2012 BY SIMON UTEBOR 3 COMMENTS

The Presiding Bishop, The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, Dr. Mike Okonkwo, has faulted the Federal Government on the removal of subsidy on petroleum products.

Okonkwo, at a news conference in Lagos on Saturday, warned that if the subsidy issue was not carefully handled by the government, it would trigger violence of monumental dimension.

The cleric, therefore, advised the government to put the subsidy removal on hold until Nigerians were properly educated on the issue.

He also said removing subsidy at a time Nigeria was facing a rising wave of insecurity was ill-timed and wrong.

He noted that the abrupt manner in which the subsidy removal was carried out offended the sensibilities of Nigerians who desired a fairer deal from the government.

The cleric said, “There is need for caution at this stage. We cannot afford to drag Nigeria back to the stone age because the government has failed to discuss the issue with the people.

“I agree that the breakdown of infrastructure did not start with the Goodluck Jonathan administration. However, Jonathan should go back to the drawing table. This is because Nigerians do not understand the subsidy situation very well. Therefore, the government should put the issue of subsidy on hold until there is proper education.”

Okonkwo urged Jonathan to ensure that the refineries were made to work and those frustrating the functioning of the refineries were brought to book.

He said Nigerians could only have faith in the Federal Government only when those involved in corrupt practices were arrested and prosecuted.

He said the system of shielding sacred cows who had frustrated the functioning of the country’s refineries was a big problem that needed to be tackled if Nigeria must develop.

Okonkwo asked the states and Federal Government to slash the salaries and allowances of government functionaries.

He urged the government to deal with the threat posed by Boko Haram decisively.

http://www.punchng.com/news/itll-trigger-serious-violence-okonkwo/

http://www.punchng.com/news/arrest-fraudsters-in-oil-industry-okonkwo-tells-jonathan/

Arrest fraudsters in oil industry, Okonkwo tells Jonathan

January 7, 2012 3 Comments
The Presiding Bishop, The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, Dr. Mike Okonkwo, has urged the Federal Government to arrest the people who are instrumental to or culpable in the alleged rot in the petroleum industry.

Okonkwo, in a statement on Thursday, said the government should make the culprits refund their loot.

He stated that the FG should use the proceeds to rehabilitate refineries and provide other infrastructure, rather than burdening Nigerians through subsidy removal.

He urged Jonathan to provide infrastructure and make the refineries functional.

According to him, it will be difficult for Nigerians to agree with Jonathan when the necessary amenities that will cushion the hard effects of the subsidy removal have not been provided.

He said, “Whether fuel subsidy removal is good or not is not the issue now. With the position the country is, we should not add more problems to Nigerians because its (subsidy) removal has made fuel price to go up and other commodities have sky-rocketed and nothing goes up in Nigerian and comes down.

“The government should first of all clean the oil sector, if need be, arrest those that have stolen our money and make them pay for it. Then use the money to repair our roads, put infrastructure in place and cushion the hard effects of fuel subsidy withdrawal.

“We will then begin to talk of fuel subsidy. But as long as those things are not put in place and one is making promises, Nigerians will not listen.”

The truth is just because they are not sleeping on the highways to disapprove of the subsidy wahala, does not mean they are in full support, how many places can you as aperson be at a time so you would not know what their efforts are, even, prayers are more effective than any protest.

^^ go back to what i wrote, read again and then respond. who said they should be on the street sleeping on the ground? i said speak out not the silence we have seen so far from most of them!

How can they criticize the government when they are one and the same thing? The import privileges they enjoy plus maybe free parking for their planes is enough for them not to care plus they are all rich and can't be part of the 99%.

wetu:


2Ti 2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

abeg interpret o.