Abuja, 30 July, 2024 / 3:49 pm (ACI Africa).
The political class in the West African nation “must” reconsider their lifestyle that serves their personal interests and begin availing resources to the wider public, Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of the country’s Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja has said.
“Our leaders must move away from hoarding public resources for personal gain,” Archbishop Kaigama said in his Sunday, July 28 homily at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Galadima, Gwarinpa, of his Metropolitan See.
In Nigeria, he said, “There is the cry of hunger, poverty, joblessness, and insecurity in the land.”
“We pray that our leaders will be compassionate to hear the cry of the people,” the Nigerian Catholic Bishop said in his homily on the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time.
Drawing inspiration from the Readings of the day, including Elisha’s decision to avail what was meant for him to the needy people in the first reading and that of the lad, who availed his five loaves of bread and two fish to Jesus in the Gospel reading, he called upon Nigeria’s political leaders to “learn from Elisha and Jesus who were moved with compassion to provide for their people and not their families or friends alone.”
