A renowned cleric and Minister-in-charge of God of Fire Global Evangelical Ministries (GOFGEM), Evangelist Peter Kolajo has sent a warning signal to politicians and those in the positions of authority to refrain from feeding on the people's common wealth.
Kolajo said corruption would not have had a place in Nigeria and other parts of the world if the leadership positions are used to impact on the people and the society rather than wealth aggrandizement and insatiable appetite for wealth accumulation.
The spiritual man of God gave the admonition during a special prayer session ending the 7-day Christian Inter-denominational Prayers session in Osogbo, Osun state capital.
The prayer session according to the cleric's media aide, Mr. Gbemi Jesuleke, was aimed to redefine Nigeria and set her citizens to the path of socio-economic and political redemption.
The clergyman bemoaned on the way and manner at which the nation's resources were being managed over the years by the people at the helms of affairs,noting that a nation like Nigeria deserves no sufferings in view of her God-given abundant endownments.
He attributed corruption, kidnapping, ritualism, insurgency among other societal vices to resultant effects of ungodliness characterized with many Nigerians.
The spiritual man of God opined that Nigeria as a country, having being blessed economically, politically and intellectually, does not deserve her present position among her peers in the world.
He called on those in government to see power and governance as responsibility and service to humanity, rather than using such coveted positions to enrich oneself and amass unearned emoluments.
According to Evangelist Kolajo, a nation grows only when her citizens do the needful in the management of their socie-economic and political resources.
He submitted that for a nation like Nigeria to develop, thus all hands must be on deck to amend her past, adjust her presence and redefine her future for the betterment and success of all.
Lamenting on the proliferation of corruption in Nigeria, Kolajo said "it is lugubrious that a nation like Nigeria could still be battling with such immoral acts in spite her years of independence'".
"Though insurgency, kidnapping, robbery and ritualism seemed to be the major challenges confronting the corporate existence of Nigeria, but in actual sense, corruption had endemically smashed us at the face.
'If we know the damage the syndrome of care-free attitude on corruption has caused our nation, then we will not hesitate to nip it in the bud and as well stem the tide of other challenges bedeviling our corporate existence.
'Hence, the call to reposition our country to the path of greatness could only be actualized if those in the positions of authority who are the managers of our common wealth refrain from any act that could jeopardize our collective dream and goal.
'It is time for every household to champion the cause on nation building, national growth and development, while no effort must be spared to attain positive change on Nigeria's rebirth.
'Though we need the spiritual intervention particularly on our attitudes to government and governance, as this will bring a radical change of heart to those who believe that the only channel to amass wealth is to live on public treasury", Kolajo stressed.
While urging people to return to God, Evangelist Kolajo said the devil and his cohorts have attacked the simplest social stratum vis-a-vis the family unit, thereby rendering every unit of the larger society ineffective and unproductive to good things.
The cleric whose message was underppined on scriptural references taken from Gen 12 where God called Abraham to the unknown in a bid to raise godly generations and transfer the baton of righteousness and holiness in this perverse world, called on all states of the nation to replicate the same gesture.
He added, "The foundation of Nigeria is faulty and crooked because we have left God out of our dealings, hence the geometric rise in injustice, corruption, kidnappings, ethnic bigotry and other menaces which makes God unhappy about our predicaments".
"We need to refocus onto God from the family unit to the larger society and abolishing every idolatry act that has cast darkness upon the glory of every Nigerian.
"Every corrupt politician, evil office holder, fraudster, racketeer, ritualist and false-men-of-God should caution, beware and repent because the book of great judgment is opened upon anyone henceforth perpetrating the vices of the devil".
