The people and youths of Asarama community in Andoni local government area of Rivers State have resorted to seek for God’s intervention in the lingering intra-communal clash and cult related attacks which has resulted in the killings of several innocent indigenes of the community.
Youths of the community popularly known as Asacity, under the aegis of Asarama Concerned Youths ACY, comprising youths from all the warring families and houses have in recognition of their future and what fortunes owns ahead for them resolved to sheath all kind of swords to pursue peace when they gathered in their numbers to seek the presence of God.
The prayer session organized by the youths which began in Port Harcourt with fasting and later in the community was targeted at restoring peace in the community since efforts to nip it by human factors seems failing.
A youth leader loyal to the Asuk’s faction who never wanted his name on print while commending the organizers of the programme for the unity and peace of the community said it is indeed a step in the right direction for the youths who are tomorrow leaders to come together for the peace of their father land.
According to him, the youth body which does not segregate or select membership, hence Asarama community is concerned, is without the presence and attendance of the cult members.
The source said, though the chieftaincy crisis rocking the community is worrisome but the most dreaded circumstance was the untimely elimination of the youths among whom were the innocent future leaders.
However, he gave the name of the leaders of Asarama Concerned Youths who are pioneering the burden of ensuring peace in the land to include Mr. Ezekiel Otugwung Abadi and pastor Brown Jeremiah.
Meanwhile, it was also gathered that a section of the community is opposed to the chairman of the peace negotiating committee constituted by the executive chairman of the local government, Hon. Orom Nte Ereforokuma penultimate week.
The faction is worried as it alleges fears of uncertainty, positing that the committee may not work in the interest of all in the community as its chairman, HRH, N.L.A Iraron Edeh-Obolo II is identified as a close ally and friend of a prominent and influential chief Sobere Etete-Owoh of another faction in the community.
On whether they have formally registered their disagreement to the executive chairman, the source’s answer was no but that they have only hope in God and so watching how the processes would look like. The peace process is however ongoing as at press time on the angle of the youth wing of Asarama.
The visioner and initiator of the peace move, Ezekiel Otogwung Abadi in a telephone chat with, The Newswriter, reveals that the theme of the ongoing fasting and prayer at the community is tagged “O God, heal our land” saying that numerous pastors are on hand leading the people to the alter of grace.
It could be recalled that, The Newswriter, had earlier reported the fears of an opposition group in the community who sought for the appointment of men of God as peace brokers, since they may be mindful of their calling in the act of looking for a lasting peace.
As if that fear was not enough to drive home the needed peace, the chairman had gone ahead to use the traditional class to pursue the desired peace in the land, the community is worried.
Can this peace be achieved with the traditional class other that the religions or spiritual intervention, the people wondered. ###
Bishop Nwator Blames Evil in Nigeria on Faith Abandonment…Prays For God’s Intervention
The Int’l Integrity Bishops College & Faithful Ministers World Network has kicked off their 12th monthly integrity seminar on Wednesday, 18th Sept., 2013 at the Nigeria House of Peace, 8 Amadi Street, off Tombia Rd, GRA 1 Port Harcourt, with members of the group praying for God’s radical intervention over the increasing evil in Nigeria.
Decrying the high rate of wickedness, insecurity, immorality and abomination engulfing the country, president/founder of the group, Archbishop Dr (Amb) Friday O. Nwator JP,OON, in a brief exhortation before the prayers, lamented that Nigeria had gone astray.
Referring to Ezekiel 1, 2&3 and Isaiah 1: 1-9, Archbishop Nwator regretted that although God, through the early missionaries and the oil boom of the 1970s nourished Nigeria, the nation’s leadership and citizenry have left God, hence the ongoing evil in the country.
He expressed anger that evil has so much taken hold in Nigeria that God’s anointed servants such as pastors, bishops and archbishops are now the target of criminals, especially kidnappers.
Urging the group to pray for God’s intervention, Archbishop Nwator assured them that God would hear their prayers since they constitute the remnant that still seek the face of God in the midst of the high rate of evil.
He recalled how God answered their prayer when they decreed that last year’s flood should stop, sending a rainbow to confirm His covenant with Noah and also how God, in answer to their prayer, saved Rivers State and Nigeria from total chaos at the height of the political crisis and thanked God for sustaining the seminar for the past one year.
Thereafter, Bishops James Bassey and Musa Usman Katsina, on Archbishop Nwator’s directive, led the congregation in a fire-racking, spirit-filled prayer that shook the entire church auditorium.
Archbishop Nwator later thanked the members for attending and urged them to invite others for the Thursday and Friday sessions.
