The Archbishop of the Province of Niger and Bishop of the Diocese of Awka, Anglican Communion, Most Rev. Alexander Ibezim, mentioned on Saturday that poverty and starvation are main threats to the nation’s peace and unity.
Ibezim mentioned this whereas delivering the Archbishop’s Cost throughout the 2nd Session of the thirteenth Synod of the Diocese of Awka, Anglican Communion, in Awka.
He, due to this fact, urged the authorities to make concerted efforts to ameliorate the financial and safety challenges confronted by the populace.
He mentioned that it was unlucky that, regardless of the efforts of the federal authorities, the costs of foodstuffs and different important objects had continued to rise.
Ibezim described the financial insurance policies of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration as one bereft of the mandatory values for the financial system and referred to as on Mr President to overtake his financial insurance policies.
He appealed to President Tinubu to declare a state of emergency on poverty and starvation within the nation.
He additionally referred to as for the discharge of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained chief of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB.
“The pains confronted by Nigerians are compounded by the weakening naira because of the foreign exchange trade scenario and will increase within the pump worth of gas, cooking gasoline, kerosene and electrical energy tariffs.
“Time is now for the management of the nation to avert the looming hazard. Nigeria is quickly on the way in which to financial and political perdition, Could God assist our nation, Nigeria.
“The reality stays that injustice units again a nation and as soon as an ideology about injustice is imbibed in a folks, no quantity of power can quell it until justice is finished,” he mentioned.
