Don’t be part of problems, Archbishop tells Nigerians

The Archbishop of Onitsha Archdiocese, Most Rev.(Dr.), Valerian Okeke, has called on Nigerians to be part of solution instead of being part of the problems of the country.

Speaking while delivering Easter message at the Basilica of Most Holy Trinity, Onitsha, Anambra State, Archbishop Okeke said ” I urge you all to be part of solution. The president, priests, small boys, old women, children and parents should be solution not problem of Nigeria”.

He said the president is the father of all in the country and therefore everybody looks up to him for protection and to provide for them but if he fails in this responsibility, then he has failed in being part of the solution.

In the same vein, he said, law enforcement agents who are selective in the enforcement of the law, have become disorderly law enforcement agents.

The Archbishop said the same thing was applicable to Ministers of God, who carry false witnesses, “extorting, laying the load they cannot bear on the people. You are not part of solution”.

He said Easter is a solution, when Christ made sacrifice for the mankind. “We call for sacrifice from all for the good of all” he said.

Earlier in his homily when he visited Onitsha Prisons as part

of his part of Easter celebration with the inmates said they should bear in mind that there was no hopeless situation with God.

“You should have hope in God who knows you. Be a new man. Everybody has given up until God raised Christ” the Archbishop told the inmates.

He said inspite of the hopeless situation when Christ was in the grave, Mary Magdalene unlike some of us today went to see Christ in the grave before she was told that Christ has risen.

He stressed that God rewards goodness, saying “don’t expect the beneficiaries of your goodness to reward you. Continue doing good if you want God to reward you”.

The highlights of the mass, was the confirmation of 13 persons out whom 11 were inmates of the prisons.

The Archbishop as usual donated toiletries, biscuits, noodles, cheese bon, eight bags of rice (cooked), one live cow and one slaughtered and Easter cake.