FUEL SUBSIDY: Clerics Seek For Divine Intervention To Reduce Hardship

By Fidelis Ugbomeh.

Worried about the aftermath of the fuel subsidy removal the General Overseer Christ Apostolic Church Oworonshoki, Pastor Ojo Oluwasegun, has prayed for divine intervention to guide our leaders towards introducing measures that will ameliorate the present hardship.

Oluwasegun made this remark yesterday at Adiyan in Ogun state at the first anniversary celebration and Thanksgiving service of Christ Came to Save and Deliverance Ministry.

Deacon Jonathan Ikhafia and Pastor Elizabeth Ikhafia

Although the federal government announced doling out N5billion naira intervention fund to each state and federal capital territory for procurement of palliatives to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal, he enjoined leaders at all levels to ensure that the less privileged benefit from the gesture.

The pastor, Christ Came to Save and Deliverance Ministry Deacon Jonathan Ikhafia enjoined the leaders to surrender themselves to God and not to see anybody as enemy.

He admonished the leaders to be prayerful, eschew wickedness and prayer of compromise.

In her own remarks, Pastor Elizabeth Ikhafia called on the Ogun state government to repair the Adiyan/gasoline road so as to make the road motorable.

She stated further that many residents of Adiyan area of Ogun state now abandoned there vehicles at home due to the bad state of the road.

The event was attended by Pastors and members of Christ Came to Save and Deliverance Ministry as well as Elder Idode A.E. Chairman Governing Board, Dental Registration Board of Nigeria, Ikoyi, Lagos.

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