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Tackle corruption harder, CAN urges govt

The Oyo State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged the government to put in stricter measures against corruption in all areas.

Its chairman, Apostle Joshua Akinyemiju, advised in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Ibadan.

Akinyemiju urged the government to look at diversifying the economy by boosting agriculture, ensuring a stable market system, improving the electricity supply, and maintaining the political will to block wastage.

He emphasised that laws must be enforced to punish defaulters severely, irrespective of position or status.
“There should be no sacred cow. These leaders go to Dubai, Singapore, China, and more, but they failed to copy what those countries do and replicate it here.
“That attitude should change, they need to do away with selfishness, insensitivity and insincerity. Having done all of these and more, leadership must have the fear of God.

“They must know that the day of judgement will come when everyone will give an account before his/her creator,” he said.

He cited 2 Chronicles 7:14 – “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”.

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The chairman added, “We must continue to hammer on the need for leaders and followers to turn from their wicked ways if we want peace in the land. God bless Nigeria.”

Also, the pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Jesus Place, Ibadan, Francis Oghuma, urged citizens to endure the hardship of this time as it was momentarily in the place of weeding the economy.

“As Christians, we must be ready to make sacrifices, living for a while in self-denial, enduring a worthwhile harvest, while making selflessness a watchword.

“We must discourage wasteful spending, overloaded weddings, burials, and the likes must be seen as economic saboteurs and a draining pipe to economic redundancy,” he said.

Oghuma enjoined the government to create an enabling environment for citizens and strategically take headlong to deal with “our green economic drainages monsters – electricity.

He called for a government emergency declaration on the alternative solar power system by subsidising solar sources to make it more affordable for the citizens.

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