*Insists political solution not possible without divine works at the background
By Toby Chuks
The Convener of Divine Illumination Service On Africa, Prophet Theo Rays has hailed the leadership style of the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu describing the current Ohaneze leadership as ideal for Ndigbo.
Speaking during a visit to the Ohaneze President General, Rays said he is impressed with the way the Ohaneze boss opened his ear to listen and gather views, ideas, opinions and vision from the people, noting that such open door policy is key to good leadership.
The Prophet who spoke while presenting a written vision on how to address the challenges facing Ndigbo titled “Ndigbo on the throes of Worsening African System: Time to seek divine intervention with big thinking and big work” to the President General observed that giving a listening ear to their subject paves the way for gathering intelligent expert views, ideas, knowledge and vision required for good decisions and being strategically effective in actions.
He told the Ohaneze boss that the problems facing Ndigbo are traceable to worsening system of things in Africa and the way out for Ndigbo is to seek divine intervention so as to be in a better position to overcome the negative impact of the African system.
He argued that political solution cannot be achieved without the backing of divine works because politics on its separate part is a problem going by the kinds of people involved in it and the kinds of things they they do with it.
He said: “politics is a room of bad things including lying and cheating, fighting and killing, so ordinarily you cannot use politics to solve problems without filtering it. More so, people carry their personal bad characters, bad behavior and bad habit as wicked minds, stingy hands, haters of others, habits of lavish lifestyle, womanizers and being unfriendly temperamental among other negative habits into political office plus lack of good ideas and knowledge, lack of experience, exposure and capacity, lack of intellectual and spiritual consciousness and that is why divine intervention is needed to deal with political problems ahead of the interest in political solution
He added “We have a system where people lack intellectual and spiritual services. Intellectual and spiritual services are very important but we don’t have them enough. The implication is that Africa lack the scope to find meanings and reasons, give reason and meaning and to make intelligent gathering, to make finding and discoveries, to explore, enhance and advance things. Take Enugu Ezike my country home as a case in point. In Enugu Ezike we inherited endowment of economic trees mostly Palm trees but no government has ever considered it right enough to explore, enhance and advance palm produce in Enugu Ezike. We have similar cases everywhere in Igboland”
He blamed the worsening system of Africa to what he described as misplaced position of God by religious denominations including Christian denominations who hold the impression that it is the duty of political leadership (government) to solve all problems facing the people. He observed that God is number one in service to humanity because with God all things are possible but unfortunately God has been lowered lowered to fourth position ahead of money, political leadership/government and school education via religious practice among the people.
Ha cried out that placing money, political leadership/government and school education ahead of God is very wrong and harmful and the earlier the religious denominations particularly Christians retrace their steps to give God the rightful position as number one in service the better. “Churches are building University and that is wrong. Church is to use divine means to change lives ahead of secular means. The purpose of Jesus Christ is to use divine means to make the secular means better. God can change anybody and use the person to do anything without school education. I am not saying school education is wrong but we cannot place it ahead of God
He revealed to the President General that the problems facing Africa in general and Ndigbo in particular is mainly caused by division of purpose and targets between government and religious organizations noting that “we have a situation where government is working for security, food production, road construction, payment of workers, facing poverty among other things while religious organizations are facing other projects entirely and that is not good towards finding lasting solution to challenges facing a people” he added
In response, the Ohaneze boss commended his efforts toward contributing to the wellbeing of Ndigbo and promised to look into the written vision he presented along with his Executives.
