Enugu
cleric, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka in an open statement to President Muhammadu Buhari
accusing him of inflicting pains, suffering, and massive deaths on Nigerians.
OneNigeriaBlog recalls
that Mbaka, the director Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria, AMEN, had before
the 2015 general election predicted that former President Jonathan would be
roundly defeated in the polls.
He had in the message
entitled “From Goodluck to Badluck”, accused Jonathan of running the economy
aground.
Soon after Buhari was
sworn-in as President, Mbaka visited him at the Presidential villa where they
met behind closed doors. He had also in another message while President Buhari
was away on medical trip, stated that some persons were blocking him from
having access to the President.
However, in one of his
latest messages released to his congregation, the Roman Catholic priest
maintained that with the way things were going, Buhari would be rejected by
Nigerians in 2019.
He slammed the
President for occupying himself with trivial issues like the emergency of
Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu as the Senate President and the Deputy
respectively, while the country was on fire.
The full message
below:
“The issue is that
Mbaka is speaking as the Spirit leads him; there is hunger everywhere; my job
is to tell leaders the truth, the landlords are crying, the tenants are
lamenting, sellers are crying, buyers are lamenting; there is hunger on the
streets (onye obuna na ajazi eze) people are talking harshly, there is a
channel called Aljazera, (ndi an aja-eze), many students are being rusticated
out of school because they cannot pay school fees; the fees are being hiked.
Proprietors are distressed, many companies are winding up; the economy is
relaxed, Nigeria is being attacked ferociously and you are the citizens as well
as the members of the church.
“So, when you are
being attacked, the church is being attacked, that’s why I can’t keep quiet
when things are going wrong. I am telling the President to look around him and
know those who are advising him rightly and those who are telling him that
there is no trouble; the President should know that there is trouble; if things
continue like this, in the next election, nobody will vote for him.
“Whether they like it
or not, I am giving the raw truth; if the President should have somebody like
me and he cannot be talking with me, then there is a problem; there is a
problem somewhere; somebody who can advise you without asking for anything and
he is representing the poor masses in the country and he won’t tell you lies;
he will praise you when you are doing well and when you are not doing well, he
will look at you in the face and tell you.
“I don’t need the
President; I need God, I need the Holy Spirit, I need Jesus; there is suffering
everywhere, people are suffering. To feed is now a problem, and a hungry man is
an angry man. Hunger and anger will lead to danger.
“So, let him know
whether he can do away with some advisers around him and bring in the people
who are experts in economic revamp; there are people who are experts in that;
let them begin to empower people, people are not empowered, they are still
walking around in vicious circles, planning and planning and planning. Go to
mortuaries, go to mortuaries, there are no spaces. I repeat, myself went to
Annunciation Hospital the other time to see my brother, coming in, there was no
space, the whole mortuary was filled up and they told me it is the same thing
in the Eastern Medical Centre and that if I go to UNTH, there is no space, the
death rate is high.
“People are living in
hope and in hope; the adorers are hoping that things will be well; I’m calming
the situation, when you tell somebody same thing everyday, when will things be
well, when the person is in the grave? Hunger everywhere, many neighbours don’t
eat again, many are being attacked by hunger, hunger is becoming a normal thing
and there are people responsible for this; mortuary and ambulance business is
now the thriving it; many cannot afford drugs; they can’t pay and many are
using it to rob the poor by opening satanic centres to dupe the poor and they
will be giving people fake prophecies, many terrible things are happening in
these centres in the name of churches; these are robbers; people will tell you
lies to take money from you. These are robbers, these are hooligans who are at
work in today’s Nigeria, many are becoming hawkers, who will buy from you, with
what? Even those selling palm oil are adulterating it, even rice, wahala, even
tomatoes, because of the price, people put preservatives and sell poison to
people, I don’t know whether some people now embalm tomatoes, what is
happening? Things are hard, even to change clothes, everyday more pipes are
being blown, the Avengers are at work and up till now, there is no solution.
You know when certain things begin to happen, you begin to ask some questions,
somebody like me will begin to ask – when will this end (nke a kabu ututu),
this is still good morning of it.
“If it continues the
next three months, there will be no money to pay salaries; the vicious effect
is disastrous and when salaries cannot be paid, teachers will come home,
students will stop going to school, there will be more kidnapping, more
hooliganism, more armed robbery, more prostitution, immorality will be on the
hike, so, the President should sit up, there is a red light blinking on the
country, the issue of Saraki and Ekweremadu, nobody wants to listen to such
stories any more, whether Saraki is the President of the Senate or Ekweremadu
is not this or that, the countrymen are tired of such stories.
“We need economic
experts, gurus, sages that are sincere, who can come in and think about our
economic revamp and judicial reformation. How can a case be in court for more
than 10 years? Even if you prosecute all the senators, the matter may linger
till the next 20 years; so what purpose have you achieved? All these noise,
EFCC arrested this and that, after one week, that one is over; people are dying
of hunger; dollar is growing everyday and Naira is falling; Euro is rising
everyday and Naira is collapsing everyday; pound is on the hike everyday, on a
mega level and Naira is dwindling on a higher level, before you know it, people
will begin to lose hope and it will affect their faith in God, because they
will begin to lose faith and ask God where are you? That is where it affects me
because it affects the faith of the people. The Bible says if the foundation is
destroyed, what can the just do? The Bible says the just man shall live by
faith, that is my simple logic, when shall this end?
“These Avengers
phenomenon, I did something that if the leaders of today are wise, the problem
could have been averted. By the gift of the Holy Spirit, His sagacity, I was
proactive; that time they have not started bombing; I made a lot of effort; I
won’t tell you what I spent so that the President will not suffer what he is
about to suffer. Like I told you, this is just the good morning of it, very
soon, people who are quiet will begin to talk, when somebody like me will bring
my cheque and all the money I have in my account will finish in school fees,
hospital bills, is it were well with these peole will they be coming to me. I
am receiving the pain and shock drastically.
“The quantum of
charity we are doing in the ministry is telling the level of poverty that is in
the atmosphere. To eat is now a problem, people no longer say give us these
days our daily bread but give us this day our daily bread, man must eat to
survive, people are not even talking about jobs any more, graduates are
everywhere, those who are making now are those who are selling dollars.”
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