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From Jude Chinedu, Enugu
The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (RPCN) has asked President Bola Tinubu to muster political will and courage and end the worsening security situation in Nigeria.
The church stated this a communiqué at the end of its 4th General Assembly meeting on Sunday at the All Saints RPCN Parish, Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
In the communiqué signed by the Moderator-General of the Church, Rt. Rev. Chima Uduma and the Secretary-General, Rev. Cornelius Eke, the church said the rising insecurity had “continued to manifest in a spate of kidnappings, armed banditry, cultism, armed robbery, marauding of unknown gunmen, and menace of ethnic separatists.”
The church also appealed to the federal government to hasten action on the release of the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles promised by the administration for intra and inter-state transport to ease transport difficulties of the masses occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal.
On the 2023 election tribunals and appeal tribunals, the church expressed the need for the judges at all levels to be unbiased and deliver just judgments “in order to forestall miscarriage of justice, bearing in mind that God is a just God that judges all men according to how they judge others”.
They congratulated the Federal and Ebonyi State Governments on their 63rd and 27th anniversaries respectively, and particularly commended Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Francis Nwifuru for approving and releasing funds for payment of pensioners’ arrears of gratuity in the state, and for recruiting medical doctors, paramedical officers and civil servants in the state.
They, however, advised that the recruitment exercise should follow due process in order not to truncate the good intentions of government, even as pensioners who had sacrificed their all in the service of the land should not be left to suffer in penury.
The church further called on Ebonyi State government to do all in its powers to end communal clashes in the state while urging the citizens of the state to imbibe the spirit of living in peace with their immediate and far neighbours.
The RPCN, then commended the N35,000 salary award for federal civil servants recently pronounced by President Tinubu, but said the gesture was inadequate when compared to similar awards to the executive class, the legislators and the judicial officers and considering the prevailing economic situation in the country.
They also called on state governments and the private sector to implement the same in their establishments.
The communiqué noted with satisfaction, the growth and expansion of RPCN in the country through its aggressive evangelism, church planting and soul winning, including its planned measures to contribute to the nation’s economic development and curbing of unemployment through its proposed industrial and agricultural ventures soon to kick off.
