Cleric Wants FG To Curtail Importation Of Foreign Cultures

Apparently worried by the nagging security challenges ravaging the nation,  a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, Rev father Francis Egbebu has called on the Federal Government to initiate the necessary mechanism that would curb unbridled importation and consumption of western values and cultures by youths in the country.
“Insecurity is not a comfortable situation and we need thorough orientation and also train our children on core Christian values. We can still tackle it and amend our ways through our various families, teachers  and parents and not just emulating all that  the western world  are doing and the government should be more proactive in tackling insecurity in the land”.
According to him, because we have abandoned our core values in preference to western cultures and tradition in our quest to meet up with the more advanced nations in growth and development, the result is the brazen exposure of the youths to all forms of evils such as banditry, kidnapping, cold blooded murder, abduction of school children, ritual killings among other vices thereby exposing us as people alien to the teachings of Christ.
The priest stated in his homily at a requiem mass in honour of Pa Lazarus Josiah Ejiobi Nwadike-father of a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Imo State -Ogubundu Nwadike held at the St. Patrick’s Catholic Parish Umuola Amaigbo in the Nwangele Council area of the State.
Egbebu, who is the parish  priest of the  Holy Rosary Catholic Parish Agbaja warned  that unless Christians begin to seek the face of  God, do the right things at the right time and in good intention, the myriads of problems engulfing the nation  would continue to  defy solutions.
He extolled the Late Pa Lazarus Josiah Ejiobi Nwadike as a devout Christian of no mean repute who laboured to bring up his children in the ways of the Lord, with legacies worthy of emulation and enjoined the children not to deviate.
In a family oration, Ogubundi Nwadike a former publicity secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state inter-alia extolled his departed father as community leader, a bold courageous man who stood for truth and justice, loved and cared for all around him.
“Though not a saint or a holy person, he was a great counselor and teacher of good life, good character and good conduct obviously for that, he was loved by the people in every society that he found himself and settled in”, he stated.

By: Joe Nwachukwu, Owerri