Anglican Primate Cautions on Kidnapping, Zoning

From Nigeria-

As the nation continues to grapple with the controversial issue of zoning of political offices and the menace of rampant kidnapping, the Primate of the Anglican Communion (Church of Nigeria), Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, has cautioned politicians and other stakeholders to handle the situations with calmness so they don't get out hand.

He spoke yesterday in Abuja at a press conference to address issues of urgent national importance and the position of the church on homosexuality. According to the Primate, “the church is saddened by the apparent breakdown of law and order in Aba and the country; how criminals have virtually shut down social and economic life in the area through violence, brigandage and kidnapping of the high, middle and low class people in quest fro money”.

“We are baffled that, we have now set out on another war, against ourselves, this is self-destruction. If what I saw in Aba is anything to go by, and the wave of wanton destruction is not curbed, the communities will be completely ruined”.
On the zoning controversy, the Clergyman said, “the clamour in the PDP house over zoning is an in-house affair, it has to be done with civility, you cannot say you want to cause trouble, zoning is a PDP affair, it is not a national affair, it is not written in our constitution that all parties should follow zoning”, Okoh maintained.

The Primate while lampooning the members of the House of Representatives on the recent crisis that rocked the house called on the citizens to show increased awareness in the political programmes that had been put forward so that we can act as our own Policemen in order to checkmate irregularities in all our national life.

Okoh also took time to sound a note of warning on the issue of homosexuality, saying that, “the issue at stake of human sexuality is not an Anglican prerogative and it is by no means limited to the Anglican circle as it is clearly shown all over the world as it concern same sex marriage, paedophilia and all sexual pervasions should be roundly condemned by all who accept the authority of scripture over human life.

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