Bishop Chukwuma wants Buhari to halt economic decline

Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, Reverend Emmanuel Chukwuma yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to save the country from total collapse and further economic deterioration and decline by implementation policies and programmes that will improve the welfare of the people.

Reviewing the state of the nation in an address he delivered at the second session of the sixteenth Synod of the Enugu Diocese, held at Church of Resurrection Power, New haven, Enugu, Chukwuma, who is also the Bishop of Enugu Diocese (Anglican Communion), insisted that Nigerians have been exposed to much sufferings by the activities of the administration, adding that the euphoria that greeted the ‘change mantra’ has fast given way for despair and blurred future.

“The people are suffering, there is increase in prices of everything, yet there is no increase in salary of workers. The leadership has lived very comfortable in Aso Rock and impoverishing Nigerians by the day. They increased fuel price and prices of other things without palliatives. Everything is gradually turning upside down. That is why you see too much agitation by Niger Delta Avengers and MASSOB. Herdsmen on the other hand are killing Nigerians anyhow and our leadership does not feel concerned. That is why I said this government is corrupt, because it is only a corrupt government that will look the other way while the people wallow in poverty and hunger,” Chukwuma said.

Warning that there was a limit to what the people would tolerate, Chukwuma also deplored the return of militancy in the Niger Delta.