APPLY WISDOM TO SURVIVING PRESENT DAYS ECONOMIC CRUNCH, SAYS CLERIC

By David Okpala/Stella Okpala

The Vicar, St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Akpo, Rev. Fr. Innocent Chinazaekpere Uwakwe, has called on Nigerians to be merciful to one another, emphasizing it as requisite to surviving present day’s challenges facing the country.

He said this in a homily during Mass to commemorate 2026 Divine Mercy Sunday celebration, at the Church, in Aguata LGA, on April 12.

The cleric said, “Going is tough in Nigeria, so bad that some families find it difficult to have even a meal for whole day. Some others struggle to have but unbalanced meal, as such subject their selves to hospital want.

“On the other hand, it is common knowledge that some people have more than enough for their selves. Surprisingly, it is being wasted in their various houses.

“The early Christians shared what they had with each other in accordance to everyone’s need and that made their coexistence better, survivals outnumbered casualties.”

According to him, we need to apply such wisdom today. It is not out of place to enroll the downtrodden into Anambra State Health Insurance Scheme(ASHIA) or its equivalent elsewhere. It is to make them have access to medicare. This and some other amenities to making life better to the downtrodden out of mercy, establishes meeting up the condition at which God shows mercy.

He made reference to Matthew Chapter 5:7 which says, “Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy”(KJV).
Nigeria shall be great again. Let us work together to living to tell stories of this hardship,” he passionately pleaded.

David and Stella are of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State