{"id":354847,"date":"2021-05-21T15:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=354847"},"modified":"2021-05-21T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:31:44","slug":"mbaka-dont-truncate-peace-in-enugu-ohanaeze-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=354847","title":{"rendered":"Mbaka: Don\u2019t truncate peace in Enugu – Ohanaeze warns"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has again waded into the one-month suspension slammed on the Charismatic Enugu priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka.
\nMbaka\u2019s Adoration Ministry, Enugu Nigeria, AMEN, is currently under lock and key as he served the 30 days ban placed on him by the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Bishop Calistus Onaga.
\nIn a statement obtained by DAILY POST on Thursday, OYC said the current ordeal of Fr. Mbaka could work against the entrenched peace in the Coal City State.
\nMazi Okwu Nnabuike, President-General of OYC said in the statement that recent happenings around the priest have vindicated its warnings.
\nHe said, \u201cWhen we raised the alarm that Fr. Mbaka was missing, many people dismissed it, but it turned out to be true. We had also made it public that identified persons were after Fr. Mbaka and the target are the Ministry\u2019s assets. This has also come to be exposed with all we are seeing now on social media, involving one Princess from Abia State.
\n\u201cIt has become imperative that we again caution all the actors in this saga to leave Fr. Mbaka alone. The Priest does not just belong to the Catholic Church but millions of people who benefit from his spiritual and charity works.
\n\u201cWe have it on record that over 30,000 Nigerians are currently benefiting from Fr. Mbaka\u2019s charity, even as those who benefit from the spiritual work at the Adoration ground are at their countless millions.
\n\u201cThis is not a man to be treated in this manner. We have enough issues already to contend with and more should not be added. Enugu State is known as the most peaceful State in Nigeria and few individuals with selfish interests should not be allowed to truncate that peace.
\n\u201cShould the angry youths be forced to troop to the streets in protest, no one knows the extent it can go. The ENDSARS saga should not be forgotten in a hurry.\u201d
\n\u201cWe are, therefore, calling on the Bishop to let go of Mbaka and allow him continue with his ministry; this is the only thing that will assuage the angry feelings of the youths.
\n\u201cSo many Catholic priests were killed in Enugu State and beyond but Bishop Onaga has never called for an atonement prayer. It\u2019s disheartening to see Bishop Onaga call for prayer because a Hotel at the Bishop\u2019s court was tampered with while the people were searching for their father, having gotten the link that the Bishop\u2019s Court was his last point of call.
\n\u201cWe urge the Bishop to stop acting on the script of Princess and her cohorts. All of them should know that he who lives in a glass house should not throw stones,\u201d he cautioned.
\n(Daily Post)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has again waded into the one-month suspension slammed on the Charismatic Enugu priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka. Mbaka\u2019s Adoration Ministry, Enugu Nigeria, AMEN, is currently under lock and key as he served the 30 days ban placed on him by the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Bishop Calistus Onaga. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2677],"tags":[6023,9547,714],"class_list":["post-354847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religious","tag-kanu","tag-mbaka","tag-ohanaeze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/354848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}