He also called on faith-based communities to proffer solutions to the challenges confronting Nigeria and the world in general.
Speaking at the 45th anniversary of the Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC), yesterday, in Abuja, Okoh stated that the Church now has an opportunity to bring its prophetic voice to the table, especially in the midst of hardship, insecurity and other challenges.
According to the CAN boss, the Church needs to give good moral leadership, some sense of direction to the country and continue to raise her voice to promote inclusiveness in a world that is becoming extremely selfish.
He said: “We need to ensure a sense of community, promote sacredness of family and resist every attempt to bring in strange cultures, defend marriage between a man and his female wife, promote the sanctity of life because life is sacred and nobody has the right to take another’s life. We must be the hope and encouragement the broken world needs now.”
Okoh urged Christians elected into political positions to know that they were put there to serve and bring the desired change in the country, and not see it as an opportunity to enrich themselves and their family members or cut their own part of the national cake.
He added: “The desired change will come; our condition will not remain the way we find it at this moment. The Lord will do a new thing. Positive changes are happening in our organisation, the OAIC. Ours is a favoured generation that will not be abandoned by God. We are celebrating the Lord that will not allow his chosen ones to remain in suffering and poverty.”
