Cleric Urges Value Creation Mentality

A Cleric, Rev. Fr. Obi Oguejiofor, has called on Nigerians to imbibe the spirit of value creation for their personal and national development.

Oguejiofor who is a professor of Philosophy, made the call while delivering a lecture at the Faculty of Arts in the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

The lecture was entitled “Credence in the Occult and Social-Economic Dynamics in Nigeria”.

He said that the belief in the occults and paranormal had spread so widely that its negative effect was impairing on national development and productivity.

The cleric advised that people should not attach unnecessary spiritual underpinning to their situations.

“People are credulous these days and that is why people attach spiritual reason or cause to something for everything that happens to them.

“People should know that they are not to believe anything, that is what I call occult thought structure and it is inimical for national development, they should examine circumstances, they should be critical that is why we are rational beings.

“For instance a businessman who is experiencing decline would believe that a neighbour or an enemy has started hunting him instead of meeting a consultant who will advise him on what techniques to apply after identifying the possible cause of the failure,” Oguejiofor said.

The lecturer said that life was practical and should be approached practically, noting that the Christian spirituality encouraged people to give their time to learning skills to create value and wealth.

“Spirituality is a way of life and Christian spirituality supports science, which is why it cannot encourage to fast and pray in order to become an engineer instead of practically learning the process of becoming an engineer.

“For you to have a skill you must learn it, architecture, mechanic, mason, computer, these are practical skills which must be learnt by scientific approach and no spirit will teach you any of these.

“It helps the mentality of value creation which is critical to personal, national growth and development,” he added.