President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Reverend Luicius Ugorji, has decried Nigeria\u2019s endless borrowing of humongous sums of money by the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, decrying that they are funding the anachronistic, unconscionable, wasteful and anti-people personal lifestyles of public office holders.<\/p>\n
Ugorji, who is also the Archbishop of Owerri Metropolitan, spoke while delivering a homily during his pastoral visit to St. Patrick\u2019s Catholic Parish, Okwu Uratta, Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State, regretted that Nigerians are yet to be told what the savings from the removal of the fuel subsidy had been used for.<\/p>\n
According to the leader of Nigerian Catholic Bishops: \u201cThe seemingly endless practice of borrowing humongous sums of money to fund the personal interests of the country\u2019s public office holders is becoming worrisome.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow come we are still borrowing to fund the wasteful activities of our leaders? Why must we borrow to fund the purchase of vehicles for public office holders? This is anachronistic, unconscionable, wasteful and anti-people.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the inception of the present federal administration, we were given reasons for the removal of fuel subsidy. We were told, among other things, that oil subsidy was stopped with a view to making life and living better.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been trying to endure the accompanying pain and excruciating hardship for nearly seven months, but where are we today?<\/p>\n
\u201cHas anyone been bold enough to tell Nigerians how much has so far been saved and the use it was put into, for overall public good?<\/p>\n
\u201cOur roads, public schools, and healthcare centers, are anything but good. We are still grappling with hyper-inflation, hopeless public power supply, a sick economic environment, corruption, insecurity and a lot more.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerians are crying over the nation\u2019s economic realities. It appears that the future is dark and bleak. Our young ones now want to leave this country in search of greener pastures.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not safe on our highways. And we are equally not safe at home. What type of life is this?\u201d<\/p>\n
Archbishop Ugorji also noted that corruption has remained high, and that even the electoral process has not been immune from the debilitating corrupt practices that has held the country hostage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe moment money gets into certain hands, wrong things are done. The police look the other way,\u00a0 while electoral figures are altered and fake results announced.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is also the issue of tribalism, nepotism and ethnocentrism. We all saw what the immediate past president did. We endured and prayed for better times after him. The question is: Are we better today?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must change our attitude. Nigeria still needs people that will save us from our current rot. We must change our favourable disposition for corruption, indiscipline, armed robbery, kidnapping, wasteful expenditures, and irresponsible waste of precious human lives in our country,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Reverend Luicius Ugorji, has decried Nigeria\u2019s endless borrowing of humongous sums of money by the administration of President Bola Ahmed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n