ABAKALIKI DIOCESE: CALL EVIL BY ITS NAME AND IT WILL FLEE!
Evil unchecked grows like tumor!
One of the things that make up history is not always things that happened, but certain things that OBSTINATELY refused to happen. These things become so integral in the chronological build up on the advancement of such community or otherwise! Nigeria is a house that has raged for 49years without any honest move to save it. The church is the most sacred institution that commands our respect as the custodian of truth whilst preaching the message of Jesus. Implanting Jesus in our national chaos is the last wish of the poor devout christain who just died of hunger. When human elements tend to whittle down our reverence for the church, the onus falls on our sinful selves to address these issues. The trouble with Abakaliki Diocese has become subject of our small talks the same way as weather is to the English, yet, aligning Abakaliki Diocese on the path of self redemption is a battle for the soul of Ebonyi State and Nigeria. If the church rise up to their true responsibility today, our problems as a nation will become history.
Brethren, we live a clime that falsehood and treachery has been sown as seeds, to speak the truth is an anomie. Whoelse will speak the truth? Papa Chinenye is weighed down by the ordeals of training her children before he joins his ancestors, lest he leave a burden for Mama Chinenye. Chinenye, may end up not graduating if she doesn’t bribe her lectureres or sleep with them. If she yields to their immodest demands, she graduates and gets work in the bank where corporate prostitution is order of the day. In all categories of people mentioned, the sacrifice of ventilating the truth falls on the man who has taken the vow of poverty, celibacy and obedience. And on the cross Jesus said to her mother, weep not for me but for yourself and children. Weep for Abakaliki Diocese and for our faith! The greatest thing that God can do for a being is to grant you His mercies to profess christainity. But, the peculiarity of His love for us is that we as catholics share in His grace and salvation. To speak of a church that can tame our national excessess is to speak of the inexhaustible theological vibrations in the catholic church. While theology is not a common discourse for the laity, it presupposes to state that the initiated within the craft know that redefining theology within our national contraption is the surest way to tell our flock that the message of Jesus is not novel. At 49years of Nigeria, over 70% of the faithfuls who donate generously at offerings and collections for various church projects and at whose expense we live large can hardly fend for daily morsel. The rise in crime and hypertension is an iota into the world of nightmares that confront the average Nigerian.
As the camps in the presbyterium increase by day and night taking different virulent shapes and gathering momentum, an inescapable implosion looms that will either make or mar our beloved Diocese. Until there’s a refrain from the pride and prejudice that has dominated the franchise called Abakaliki Diocese for decades, we run a risk of an upsurge in the form of a rebellion that will emanate from the axis of uncultured men who cannot put their grouse in paper, to whom violence is the best language. A society in which the church is lost, is INDEED lost!
The Nameless Parish at Mile 50 has been sustained against all odds to stand because it was designed to serve as an image laundering zone for the ‘Lords’ of Mile 50. The evil in the modus operandi of Nameless Parish is that it has all the trappings of a Parish, but yet it is not one. Today, Nameless Parish has evolved into a PR zone for Bishop Okoro with Obuna as the presiding prelate.
As the crises in the Diocese continue to attract a volley of write-ups and a flurry of public altercations, i hope the no 1 diplomat of the Diocese needs no Nostardamus to tell him that the Birnam wood has begun gathering and when it gets to Dunsinane, oooh what a pity!
All in all, pity a Diocese full of priests but empty of courage. Pity a priest whose garb typifies him as wolf under sheep clothing. Pity the priest that feeds large at the expense of the starving masses. Pity the Diocese that acclaims the bully as a hero and deems the glittering conqueror bountiful... Pity the Diocese whose Bishop is a fox and Secretary, a juggler and; whose art is the art of scheming and conspiracy. Pity the Diocese whose strongmen are yet in the cradle. Pity the Diocese divided into fragments and each fragment deeming itself powerful!
Has the church lost her garb of moral upbringing to hapless faithfuls that flock the altar to seek freedom from the oppressed. The church and the state form an irreplaceable synergy for a better society, today’s ritual is that of less moral government and the church clothing that frail. Wither the mind that believes that the promise made by our God through the faith of our father Abraham will manifest in us when our guide hovers for vagaries of theirs. Where is their pride? Until we are able to raise a hybrid of priests and Nigerians ready to pay the price of truth, our nightmares abound!
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