Servant of God and President of
the Omega Fire Ministries worldwide (OFM), Apostle (Prof.) Johnson Suleman, was
at his latest humanitarian best on Sunday, 10th of December, 2017, as he
dazzled with the sum of four million naira, 13 stranded Nigerians who recently
escaped from slavery in Libya.
Suleman who runs ‘Touch Of
Love’, an independent gift-giving scheme that seeks to provide material
assistance to needy people across nations of the world including emergency
funds and in-kind gifts, had called out and blessed the 14 Nigerians midway
into the Sunday service.
Voicing his views on the sorry
state of leadership in Nigeria, which he believes regularly aids the exodus of
promising Nigerians into less blessed countries, the ‘Oracle of God’, as
Suleman is fondly addressed, counseled the nation’s leadership at all levels to
ensure that the nation’s systems work in order to convince the youths that they
have a future in their country.”
His words:
“I heard some people saying that
they didn’t know why Nigerians are running to Europe and America. See, if
Nigeria is good, nobody will leave. The only problem Nigeria has is that our
system is not working. If you go to Europe or America, it’s not as if there is
no poverty there; there is poverty, the only benefit is that they are the
systems that work. You are paying for light, it is working, you are paying for
anything, it is working. In Nigeria, you pay for everything, nothing works! So,
how do you expect people to stay where they feel they don’t have a future?”
“Check the list of ministers in
our government, there is no young person. How then do they focus on the youths
when they are all old? They are the same set that has always been in power.
They are recycling power. Also, we have a system now that say they are fighting
corruption, I say they are not fighting corruption; they are only recovering
stolen money. Corruption is the perversion of due process. It is corruption,
when you empower people from your own states at the detriment of other parts of
the country. Recovering money is not fighting corruption.”
“In as much as I do not support
this get-rich-quick syndrome, I will continue to say that we must make Nigeria
work. I overheard that even in the deportation camp there is some cartel being
run by Nigerians. Can you imagine that? Nigerians selling Nigerians into
slavery! That tells you that we are the problem of ourselves. If you go to
American an American will tell you that I’m from America, if you go to London,
a Londoner will tell you that I’m from London, if you go to India, an Indian
will tell you that I’m from India, but if you go to Nigeria, a Nigerian will
tell you I’m Ibo, I’m Yoruba, I’m Hausa! We are so tribal conscious. So, we are
the problem of ourselves. How can Nigerians be slaughtered in Libya and a
Nigerian is the head of the cartel! You are selling your brothers and sisters
and you think you are going to enjoy that money? We love strangers we don’t
love ourselves.”
“Think of places like Shoprite
and others like it, if they were owned by Nigerians few Nigerians will
patronize them. But because they are owned by foreigners we all queue up to buy
from them. If DSTV was owned by a Nigerian , Nigerians won’t subscribe to it.
You will begin to hear something like, oh, he is not from my tribe; he is Ibo,
I’m Yoruba. We hire White coach to coach Nigerian footballers and we make his
conditions very favourable. When we hire a Nigerian coach, we don’t pay his
salary for months, thereby killing his morale yet we cry that we lose matches.
Speaking to the deportees,
Apostle Suleman urges them not to regret or cry they ever ventured outside
Nigeria for greener pastures but to put the experience behind them and rejoice
that they are back home alive. The shame, declares the servant of God, is on
the government that cannot take care of its own.
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