Baptist Church Decries Hardship, Corrupt Electoral Process

The Baptist Church has expressed worry over what it described as the unbearable high cost of living in the country.

Regarding the ongoing processes leading to the next year’s general election, the church said that what happened recently during the party primaries leaves a very bad taste.

President, FCT Baptist Conference, Rev. Dogara Raphael Gwana, who disclosed while addressing journalists in Abuja as part of the opening of the 7th annual session of the church conference, said the Nigerian market and economy are practically at the rooftops with both the rich and the poor all crying.

According to him, “the cost of living in Nigeria today has become nearly unbearable. All facets of the Nigerian market and economy are practically at the rooftops. Everyone, both the rich and the poor, are crying. This is so because the Nigerian society is a consuming society not a producing one,” he said.

Gwana said that it was regrettable that Nigerians at the moment are depending on importation for virtually everything they consume in this country.

He said, “The governments at the state levels don’t put in any efforts in establishing factories or reviving the ones that have gone moribund. All they do is to queue to Abuja every month to receive their allocation of the national cake. Although the federal government has invested heavily into the local rice production, yet the price of even the local rice produced in-country is still at the rooftops.

“Foodstuff, transportation and other daily needs of the common man are completely unbearable. While the church prays for government to be guided and helped by God, the government should show deliberate commitment and interest in the rescue of the country and the support of the common man,” he said.