Anambra market leader decries excessive suffering, says leaders are insensitive

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By Alphonsus Nweze, Onitsha

Prominent Anambra market leader and president of Building Materials International Market, Ogidi, a suburb of Onitsha, Chief Jude Nwankwo, has decried the high level of suffering and hardship among people n the country.

Speaking during the end of the year prayer at the market by the Anambra State Markets Evangelism Coordinators Committee (ANSMECC), he said the suffering being encountered by the people is too much, the type he has never seen since he was born.

He said if life is difficult for him as an average businessman, how much would the poorest of the poor in the society has been affected.

Stressing that life has not been easy, the President lamented that our leaders are Insensitive to the sufferings of people in the country, saying, “if you tell them, they will tell you it be well. When shall it be well”.

He however thanked God that the poverty and lack that have been the lots of Nigerians leading to many deaths did not severely affect traders in his market.

The President said through their careful empowerment of their members they eliminated poverty in the market, expressing joy that many in the market have now become property owners.

He also expressed happiness about the absence of court case in the Market as was the case in the past, announcing the installation of transformer in their Estate and that the New Estate would be shared, staring with those who paid in
March and April.

High points of the ocassion was an award given to Sir Mike Aguiyi, the chairman who started the building materials project.
Others who received awards of role models were Sir Christian Okafor,former chairman and the wife, Chief Sylvester Okafor and the wife, Uzoma Onyemachi and the wife among who were adjudged couples of the year. They were gitfted with household appliances.

Ten new patrons and patronesses were also named and recognised at the ocassion, with charge that their duty was to checkmate the excesses and redirect the executive.

Earlier in his sermon, the Anglican Bishop of Oji River in Enugu State, Rt.Rev. Iyke Egbonu,has asked the traders to return back to God through his son Jesus Christ.

The Bishop who was the guest speaker charged them to desist from idol worship which has become a common trend among youths these days on the ground that “the church is a scam from white people”.

Bishop Egbonu attributed the sufferings and pestilences witnessed in the world today to human beings created by God abandoning Him for quick riches and fleshly lusts.