Pastor Adeboye says Nigeria will continue to experience insecurity, unemployment

...Until corruption is tackled in the real sense.

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye has attributed the rising spate of insecurity across Nigeria to increase in corruption and government half-hearted approach toward anti-graft campaign.

Adeboye spoke last week at the Special Prayer for All Military, Paramilitary and the families by the National Headquarters, Throne of Grace, RCCG, Ebute-Metta, Lagos.

Tagged: “Our strength and shield,” the service attracted military personnel, police officers, Lagos State Traffic Management personnel and operatives of Nigeria Customs.

According to him, insecurity in thrives because of widespread corruption where looters and thefts are rewarded, stating “it is not really about the rising cases of unemployment among youths as the cause of insecurity but corruption.”

 

He noted that except Nigeria tackled corruption in the real sense, it will continue to experience insecurity, unemployment and all kinds of vices.

Adeboye appeals to Nigerians

Adeboye, who spoke through the Assistant General Overseer of RCCG on Administration and Personnel, Pastor Johnson Odesola, said employment results from a situation where a few privileged elites sit on the commonwealth of Nigerians.

He said: “When what is supposed to be our national cake, what is supposed to create employment, some people stand on it.

“So, the situation is not really about unemployment, the challenge is that whether we lack of willingness to tackle corruption.”

He lamented Nigerians have spoken so much about corruption without doing anything about it.

Adeboye lamented that the situation where politicians defect and their sins as well as corruption practices are forgiven was not helpful.

According to him: “Four years ago, it was not as worst as this and if we fail to do something drastic, it will get worse.

“If you find out that someone is been prosecuted for corrupt cases, relieve the persons of his or her position and let the individual be properly prosecuted and if they are found guilty, let them face the wrath of the law and if they are innocent, they can be are re-absolved back into the government.”

Adeboye charged the newly appointed Ministers to leverage on new technologies, civilisation and advancement in the discharge of their responsibilities.

He said that South Korea was poorer than Nigeria at independence but has taken tourism as a major source of income with which it was creating wealth for the masses.

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He warned ministers against bench marking their achievements with past administrations, noting that it is “only in Africa and Nigeria where we talk about past governance, they talk back instead of talking forward.”