President of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Rev. Stephen Baba Panya has said that President Bola Tinubu’s appointment of service chiefs is a deliberate efforts aimed at carrying every section along.
Panya who is also the Vice President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) state this in an interview with journalists on Sunday in Kaduna shortly after a Thanksgiving service, by Rev. Yunusa Madu, the immediate past General Secretary of ECWA.
He also condemned the killings in communities in Plateau state and security agencies to go after the perpetrators.
“I want to say that so far so good, the President is making deliberate efforts to make sure that appointment of security chiefs are not lopsided and one sided.
“That is a very good start.
We are praying that the lord will continue to guide and lead him and see him through the challenges facing Nigeria…”Panya said.
He however said Nigerians were watching to see how things will unfold.
“We are watching to see as things unfold more and more. “You don’t too speak early on things, you wait and see before you speak at the time God want you to speak”, he said.
On removal of fuel subsidy, the CAN Vice President maintained that the problem with fuel subsidy was the corruption associated with it.
“The problem is not with the removal of fuel subsidy. The problem is with the corruption that is associated with the fuel subsidy.
“Let me tell you that every country subsidises one thing or the other for its citizens.
In this country, it is only right that the government subsidises something for the general benefits of the people which is fuel.
“However, the problem of corruption associated with subsidy made nonsense of it. “There is no way anybody can say such corrupt subsidy should continue.
“Whether this is the right time to do it or not, we leave it to the leadership.
“But we are praying that no matter what happened with the removal of subsidy, God will work things out for good for citizens of this country”, the ECWA President
Panya urged the government to plough back the gains of the subsidy removal into projects and programmes that will benefit the people.
The ECWA President also condemned the persistent killings in communities in Plateau state and called on security agencies to fish out the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
“We find no justifiable reasons for the killings in Plateau state.
“We condemned in totality. We are just praying that the story will not continue as before where the killers will not be apprehended and brought to justice.
“If there is no justice being done, this kind of thing will continue.
“So our prayer is that the security organs on the Plateau will up their responsibility and bring those behind the killings to justice”, he said.
