President of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Pastor Abraham Akinosun, has called on President Mohammadu Buhari to find solution to the growing army of unemployed youths, address nepotism in his government and tackle the menace of corruption in the country.
He made the call in his New Year message recently, the Church Times, a publication of the church stated.
Akinosun stated that the priority of government at all levels in Nigeria should be to lift people out of poverty.
He said: “The federal government should deliberately create jobs for the army of unemployed youth. It is not glorifying at all that our country is said to be the poverty capital of the world. Everything should be done to rein in the youths who are now engaged in all kinds of means other than honest to make a living, back to the path of rectitude,” Akinosun stated.
He also urged the federal government to do everything within his power to bring an end to terrorism in the country. While noting that government had repeatedly said Boko haram had been nipped in the bud, he said the experience in the last few days is to the contrary.
The CAC president stated, “Only on Christmas day, the so called ISIS West Africa, a breakaway faction of Boko Haram fed the world to a gruesome detail of its unjustified execution of Christians in its captivity. Though President Buhari appealed to Nigerians not to allow the senseless extremists divide us. But I am of the view that the president should go beyond appeal and go all out to destroy the extremists. They should be completely annihilated this year.”
He also urged President Buhari to embrace pluralism in his government adding that, “A situation where the National Security Council is said to be composed of 98% of people from one part of the country and all of them belonging to the same faith does not do justice to our heterogeneity as a nation.”
The CAC president also warned against further loans if the loans are not for functional use in terms of creating jobs and developing our economy. “I will support the loan, if the government intends to spend the loan to start income-yielding projects that would further create employment for our teaming army of unemployed, I support the loan proposal. Our experience in the past was that the loans taken were not spent on any specific projects. It therefore became a burden. But if the President can guarantee us that the proposed loan would be spent on specified projects that would yield income and easily pay itself, I support it wholeheartedly,” he said.
