By Onwa Ekor
As the second session of the 12th synod of the Anglican communion, Diocese of Calabar holds, the Bishop, Rt. Rev. Nneoyi Egbe, says the Nigerian nation is dead.
Briefing newsmen at St. Jude’s Anglican Church, Eke Effiong Nta, in Calabar, Monday, the Bishop pointed out that notwithstanding all the talking, the nation and her people are being pushed towards total burial.
“The laws are not working, the leadership is on inoculation against reality, institutions are dead because the establishing laws have been jettisoned, people have pocketed government and institutions, there is no food for the common Nigerian who equally cannot move about freely and easily anymore.
“The outlook is bleaker than is imagined, there is no sector of our national life that has not been taken over by this scourge of death,” Egbe said.
According to him, even as the Church engages in prayer believing that Lord Jesus Christ can and will give life back to the nation, there is need to repent and drop the determination to self destruct.
He stressed the need for Nigerians to destroy what is currently viewed as the constitution and embrace a proper, national and true one, adding that, the surreptitious preference for one religion or tribe over others in the country, should be dropped.
The clergyman advocated for true federalism and a halt to the so-called Nigerian factor which accommodates the “get rich quick and at all cost” syndrome.
Egbe also sued for the promotion of nationalism and patriotism through emphasis on residence, rather than place of origin, including the restoration of justice as an emergency issue.
The Bishop further called for a truly independent electoral body where the INEC chairman should not be a political appointee but “emerge from a college to be made of religious and traditional leaders from across the nation.”
The Anglican Bishop who called for the strengthening and tightening of the nation’s borders to allow only people with the required mentality and a progressively productive culture to enter the country, questioned the claim that much of the terror attacks are carried out by non Nigerians.
He rhetorically asked, “should we not know who has entered or lives the country as well as what such people do?”
