Clergy Charges Govt On Corruption

A Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Geoffrey  Aguigwo,  has  joined other Nigerians to  charge the Federal Government to take the fight against corruption very seriously in order to move the country forward both politically and economically.

  Rev. Fr. Aguigwo, who is the Priest in charge of Sacred Heart Parish, Uwani, in the Enugu Diocese expressed, regret that  lack of prudent management of  the nation’s resources has remained the major obstacle hindering the development of the country.

  Making his feelings known in a chat with newsmen at the parish House, Fr. Aguigwo said: “one thing   I am certain about is that  Nigeria  has tremendous  human and material  resources. But the problem is lack of prudent management of these God-given resources by the political leaders.”

   He further stated that successive administrations in the country failed to use the abundant resources to transform the nation, saying that rather, they kept  on amassing wealth to the detriment of the masses who gave them the mandate  to serve.

  “It is quite unfortunate that despite the abundant natural resources   Nigeria is endowed with, its citizenry have continued to wallow in abject poverty occasioned by unpopular and anti human government programmes and policies”,  he said.

He thus urged government at all levels in the country to  begin  to have a rethink over such progrmmes  that always  put the masses in perpetual suffering.

     “Some time ago, while  speaking  with a family friend in Germany, he said to me, ‘yes, we don’t have natural resources but we have the most important thing which is prudent management of our resources.’

    According to him :  “our socio  economic  woes   is as a result of bad leadership”, hence he advised  those at the helm of the  nation’s  affairs  to always realise that no matter the amount of wealth one acquires here on earth, “it is vanity upon vanity”

  Aguigwo therefore,  expressed dismay over the manner in which  some public office holders “loot public funds to the detriment of the common man”, especially those at the rural communities.

      “Our leadership in Nigeria is porous and  that is why some of the  leaders don’t articulate programmes and policies capable of turning around the sorry condition of the citizenry”,  he said, pointing out that what the leaders are always after is just their own personal interest.

  “When politicians are canvassing for votes, they will  promise the people  haven and earth, but immediately they are voted into power, they will start showing the electorate the other side of their colour”,  he continued.