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From Uchenna Inya, Abakaliki
The Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria, Rev. Oliver Ali Aba, has attributed the hunger, hardship and other problems nigerians are passing through to insecurity.
Aba said there would not have been hunger in the land without insecurity.
He stated this in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, during his pastoral visit to the Methodist Archdiocese of the state.
He lamented that insecurity has brought sorrow and pain in some states of the federation including Benue and Plateau.
“Today, Benue people can no longer go to farm. Plateau people can no longer go to farm. Nigerians can no longer have confidence to go to farm and because we cannot go to farm, we can’t grow any crop for us to depend on.
“And that is why we have what they call hunger and starvation, which is bringing about higher inflation to our society. Benue per se as a case study was seen as the food basket of the nation. But there is no food in that basket, it is only blood that is flowing through that basket and it is not going to help the society of Nigeria.”
The Prelate said the people of the country have been tolerating the security challenges including killings, banditry, kidnapping among others.
He said the people of the country can overcome the challenges if they resolve to do so.
“It is a matter of saying enough is enough. When the leaders are blowing trumpets from two sides of their lips, one side is good, the other side is evil. It doesn’t help this nation. Let’s call it a spade a spade.
“If all the leaders join hands together to say the issue of bandits, kidnapping among other things should be over, it will be over within a week.
“Politicians are gaining from these problems. And so, they do not want it to stop. They felt that it is part of their own way of getting money from the federal government.
“The Federal Government does not want to put itself in shame, they will go and raise money quietly and pay ransom to them. But the more we raise money giving to bandits, the more trouble will arise because they have seen it as a business, a lucrative business that they want to make out of it,” Aba stated.
