What are your perceptions on the state of Nigeria vis-a-vis the programme to be held by Deeper Life Bible Church this weekend?
As you all know that the country is about to celebrate its independence anniversary and you know that the country has gone through quite a lot since independence and at this juncture we know the challenges facing our country and everybody is thinking of what do we do. I think that the government is doing its best to get the problem solved, but it appears that as we are making some efforts, other problems are cropping up.
By the grace of God, the security situation in the country is improving but then suddenly we woke up to see the natural disaster of flood affecting some states and quite a number of people have been displaced. As it is happening for the nation, so it is happening for individuals; as we are coming out of one situation, we are entering another one and people feel they are in a state of insecurity, panic and hopelessness. People are not sure of the future, what are we going to do, how are we going to secure the future of our children, family and individuals?
This time we are focusing on divine connection to full freedom, fruitfulness and security so that we can connect with our God. We remember that God created this world and we want to rediscover that purpose and have intimate connection with Him in such a way that our present problem should be taken care of. And we can look at the future with real courage and we know that our God will not leave us alone. He is going to do something. This time I have been preparing and waiting on the Lord, there is going to be a great breakthrough for everyone.
The N5000 note proposed by the CBN has been temporarily suspended by the presidency and Nigerians are saying that they don’t want the proposed denomination at this particular time, what is your advice to the government on this issue?
What I will say is that in a democratic setting, the government should listen to the voices of the people and whatever the government is doing or any agency of the government supposes to solve the problems of the people and to relieve the people.
If the people say that a particular policy is not in their favour, if there is no any personal agenda, we will want to suspend such policy and discard it, so that the people that elected us there will know that we really care for them, it is not that we just want to push this through whether the people are comfortable with the decision or not, so I will say that the leadership should listen to the people being led.
There is a bill on capital punishment for terrorists, as a man of God, do you believe that capital punishment should be meted out to terrorists or life imprisonment?
What I will say is that we should dialogue more to see how we can resolve our problems, I believe when the lawmakers put in efforts to see how to resolve this problem of insecurity, it will take us a real understanding before we can find the lasting solution. What we need to do is to reason together and see whether the proposals are going to solve the problem or not.
The country will shortly be marking its 52nd independence anniversary and has gotten so much wrong. What do you think is the problem and how can the nation achieve its founding dream?
Our problem can be generally zeroed down to people’s problem. What I mean by this is that the leaders we elect; the people we put in places of power and positions matters a lot. So I will say first of all the electorate should now begin to see how we elect the right people into places of authority and decision-making. If we can resolve that, I think a lot of our problems will be solved.
Many times the people with money have also the gap of communication, they can talk if they have money and also they can talk, they get into this places of authority but if we begin to say what kind of country are we looking forward to that we want and then who are the people that can lead us to this place where we want to be. I think if we elect people based on what they can deliver rather than what they just say they can deliver looking at their track record and what they have been before being elected. I think it will be part of the solution to the problem.
What is your message to our leaders?
My message for our leaders is number one to take heart and to look at the future with a mindset of believing. Sometimes when problem overwhelm us and we are not able to settle down and look with focus and determination, we might be so shaken that we are wondering whether if there is a future for our country.
To start with, we know that there is a God in heaven, we know that God has appointed for us whoever He deemed fit in this particular place at this point in time, so that we look onto God and take heart and make use of all the resources that God has given us: the manpower, the wisdom, the fortitude and everything to make sure that we proffer solution to our problems through wisdom of God.
So my message to our leaders will be to remain focused, knowing that this time that God has put them there we are going to find solution to the problem we have and make sure that the lives of the people are well secured and catered for.
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