By Abubakar Yunusa
Organization of African Instituted Churches (OAIC) Nigeria region President,and Prelate, Elder Israel Akinadewo, on Wednesday appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the current administration, adding that everything would be alright come next year.
He said that somebody like me would not support giving household #8000 naira, again the money may not even get to the right places, even though it gets to the right places, it would not erk the economy.
Elder Israel stated while addressing journalists in Abuja said “let be patient for the next one year and see the cycle effect of these policies.”
We want an environment or economy that would work for the benefit of future generations and there is no doubt that we would feel the pains now , but the policy is the right policies the way I am seeing it.
There’s no doubt that we would feel the pains now if the policy is right, the way I am seeing it is naira conditional cash to 12 million households in Nigeria.
“The amount of money could be used to purchase a lot of big transport vehicles that can reduce the cost of transportation because sharing the money would not solve any problem.
He said the increase in fuel now is not by government, base on what we have seen,the price is already determined by the availability which is supply and demand, if the demands happened to be lower than the supply, automatically the prices would go down that is why I said it require a bit of patience and not rushing to criticize the government .
Speaking on Riverine areas in terms of flooding in which climate change has made it possible for smallholders farmers to achieve their objectives.
He noted that this is imperative for a perfect faith organization like OAIC and we inform them that the majority of smallholder Farmers are members of various churches and they feed their families.
“We have been praying but then we can’t just fold our arms and not take proactive steps is what we are doing now in terms of bringing to fore challenges being faced by smallholder farmers. “
While we pray we also need to look at the technical part of climate change, we can look at that holistically to eradicate problems being faced by farmers.
On his part, OAIC International, General Secretary ,Rev. Nicta Lubaale said climate change as well as other issues are impacting on the work of smallholder farmers.
“We want to deepen our understanding of the causes and impact of climate change on smallholder farmers . We also want to deepen our understanding on government public policy all over Africa in relation to climate changes adaptation for smallholders farmers.”
