The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has said that, for the sake of Jesus Christ and Mohammed, President Bola Tinubu and his administration should fix Nigeria so that the masses will stop suffering and enjoy the country’s commonwealth.
Father Mbaka, who said on Sunday during a sermon entitled, “Miracle of Open Doors”, warned that the petrol subsidy removal should not mean enriching the governors with billions every month and impoverishing the poor masses.
He said: “I know that all in Aso Rock have two major groups – Christians and Muslims – who are handling Bible and Quran. Either you’re reading the Bible or you’re reading the Quran; can’t you because of Jesus Christ or Muhammed make this country a home worthy of existence.”
As if wondering why the majority of those in Aso Rock (Nigeria’s Seat of Power) purportedly have forgotten their spiritual background, the radical angry Roman Catholic priest quarried: “Why have you forgotten your spiritual origin? Shall we continue like this until when? Is it not time we uncage this country? And Jesus looked up to heaven and said efete (open)! Can’t we open the doors of industrialization and technology? Look at what is happening in Burkinafaso – a small country like one state in Nigeria has gone up to the space to mount technological facilities to take care of the whole county. If you take any pin anywhere in Burkinafaso that technological facilities will locate you.
“The International Monetary Fund, (IMF) have been asking them to come and borrow money and they said no; that they don’t need it. Nigeria is perpetually borrowing and borrowing. Some of you may be blaming the present government not knowing that they have been caged. The money the last government borrowed. I don’t think the present government can finish paying it. Remember when they give you the money, you use what you have as collateral.
“I don’t know how many years oil they will carry before we begin to enjoy our own. What we are passing through now is hunger. Famine time is coming, I told you this many years ago. Don’t sit down in your house, open your door and enter the bush to farm, go out and do something, don’t wait for government to do things for you otherwise, you’re looking for magic, but I am praying for miracle. Miracle and magic are not the same. Miracle is supernaturally organic. Magic is the fake. It could be a product of deception. Look at what the Bible says in book of Isaiah 35, “We shall tell those who are saddened to fear not.” Despite what is happening in the country, I tell you fear not but woe betide those who are perpetuating this over suffering and cronyism, thinking that nothing will happen. And say do you know who I am, I am the minister, Senator, Honourable representing this and that, I am the governor, President.
“I don’t care who you are. Who you are is six feet. In summary, one day all the wealth you have acquired will be somewhere and you can’t lay your hands on any of them. Vanity upon vanity, rubbish!”
The vocal cleric cautioned Nigeria’s federal government against the “looming danger that may erupt” as a result of hardship and suffering meted on Nigerians due to the removal of fuel subsidies.
He advised the federal government to return the fuel subsidy since the removal has caused hardship to the people, emphasising that “nobody can stop the looming protest when it starts.”
He warned those hijacking the economy of Nigeria and causing suffering on the people to beware of the anger of God, adding, “the hammer of God is coming to unlock the key of evil one, no padlock is difficult for hammer of God to shatter it”.
He urged President Bola Ahmed to hire experts to help the federal government provide solution to the economic quagmire to reduce the suffering and hardship in the country. He said that all hands must be on deck to avert the looming danger that would “befall all the leaders irrespective of political party or political position”, stressing that, “once the power of God that’s prophetic begins to roll away from the sanctuary the government will begin to suffer.”
Fuming with fury, Father Mbaka said: “Look at what is happening in the country with buoyant riches of liquid and solid minerals with best ecological weather in the whole world. The demographic structure of the country is wonderful, the quality of children is excellent.
“A country blessed with children of orbit and excellence. In terms of education, Nigerian children are among the best. Our oil is the best in the world. Our trees are wonderful, our land is fertile for any type of crop but look at us importing garri, rice, pencil, matches, soap, toothpaste, importing our own crude oil.
“If you go to filing station the vehicle tank you used to fill with N10k, you can’t fill it with N50k again. And how much will be the salaries of our civil servants by the time they go to school and come back for two weeks? Has their salary not finished? This problem started from the past government, but I believe the present government can do something.
“We can not continue like this. Shall we continue like this? Never, we cannot. I am not blaming anybody, but I am thinking that If they can not provide solution, you look for those who can provide solution. I am not blaming the present government, but I am noticing that there are many square pegs in round holes; people who do not know how to solve problems. Somebody who doesn’t know how to solve maths, you ask him to be a mathematics teacher, you can’t give what you don’t have.
Nigeria in Casket Experience!
Still in his lamentations, Father Mbaka compared the current situation in Nigeria to “a casket experience”, and bemoaned the present sufferings: “Nigeria is ganged up. Nigeria is locked up, Nigeria is in a siege, Nigeria is caged, Nigeria is passing through a casket experience. We need to be unlocked. Our youths are running away and when you run to another country without quality paper, you are there worse than what it ought to be here. Many are languishing having gone out but despite what they are suffering there it is better for them than when they are here.
“Why can’t there be a steady power supply? Why can’t the interest rates for producers and industrialists from the banks be lowered? How can somebody take a loan from the bank and be paying 40℅ interest rates, how? It’s an indirect way of increasing criminality. Its a subtle way of perpetrating anachronisms of kidnapping and insecurity. It’s a matter of who can say it!”
Mortuaries Filled:
The cleric further appealed to the federal government on what to do to ameliorate the hardship occasioned mainly by the sudden petrol subsidy removal.
He said: “I am not talking about protest, but I mean that the present government should sit up or sit down and plan on what to do to ameliorate the suffering of the poor masses. Mortuaries are being filled with people who died out of hopelessness. It’s even affecting the spirituality and morality of our people. People cannot eat. Imagine a parent with six children, how many cups of garri will they eat in a day?
“Some can’t even go to the hospital, if you go to the hospital and drugs are prescribed, how will you eat because it’s after meal that you take drugs? Can you even pay for the hospital bill? Every week the problem is multiplying, our case is becoming amoebic like amoebae, shapeless.
“Look at the wonderful communiqué the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria wrote. We have read them in the church, how will that be promulgated?
“The leaders have the key to open the doors of this suffering and people will be begging to enjoy the wealth of the land. It’s now shameful thing to tell anybody that you’re from Nigeria because our youths are doing anything possible to survive. Man must survive. One of the basic facts is how will I survive. And a time when immorality will become a culture and tradition. That’s what is happening, and it will soon affect the church with the social media trend.
Even Church Leaders:
Father Mbaka also had a few words of advice for the Church Leaders he accused of romancing the “so-called politicians” who are causing hardship for the masses.
He said: “The church leaders should prepare to give their faithful what to eat. The time for that is fast approaching because some of our church leaders are romancing unhealthy with the so-called politicians that you can’t look at their face and tell them that what they’re doing is wrong.
“That the cost of oil in Nigeria is becoming something else we can’t imagine, and somebody is telling us is because the subsidy is removed and that is why. If the removal of the subsidy will bring hardship to us, let them put it back. If subsidy means that governors should be enriching themselves in billions every month and the poor masses are suffering and dying, let them put back the subsidy because the danger of it is coming.
“I have been silent on it and once the power of God that prophetic begins to roll away from the sanctuary, the government will begin to suffer. We can not continue like this. The doors must open. Look at, the door to foreign country opens and the doors to enter Nigeria closed. How many Americans are coming to invest here, how many new companies are rising in Nigeria, and even local investors are closing down.
“What you buy today, go back and price it tomorrow. Economic instability as a result if demonic inflation. Church has never had it this way in this country. The cars that have been climbing the hills have failed breaks and everybody should begin to call on his own God
“I believe there are gurus in this country that can come together and bring solution irrespective of party they are in because when what will happen, happens, nobody will tell anybody to protest or not to protest. “It will be a problem beyond party or whatever. Some of us who are not political, even though, being constantly misunderstood; if I am saying the truth, they will misunderstand Mbaka. This is what I have been crying for over the years, that a time is coming, and that time has come now.
“The question I am asking is: How will our parents feed their children morning, afternoon and night? We are not talking about school fees, house rent, not even the fuel whatever because we can trek to wherever we used to enter the motor to. It’s a matter of leaving very early in the morning.
“We are going back to our roots, those who used to eat only noddles are now looking for other things to help them eat. Back to the roots. Are you going to the village, do you have a house in the village? Is the farm safe? We need a miracle of God to open the door of healing.”
