Easter 2022: Nigerians Are Thirsty – CAN Tells FG

Kaduna State Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. John Joseph Hayab, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to quench the thirst of the citizens.

The clergyman in his Easter 2022 message made available to newsmen on Thursday, said Nigerians are hungry and thirsty due to the poor economy of the country, Naija News reports.

Hayab lamented the insecurity challenges being faced in the country and also blamed the state of the nation on poor governance.

Hayab said, “Jesus, in the last days and hours of his agony made many spiritual revelations about life and how to address human, spiritual, and physical needs. Jesus on the cross shared in human pains by saying ‘I am thirsty.’ Indeed, Nigerians, nowadays, can say, like Jesus on the cross of cavalry, that they are thirsty.”

He added, “They are thirsty due to poor economy, thirsty due to bad governance, and thirsty because of insecurity. All the thirst experiences could lead to misery.

“Accordingly, celebrating Jesus’s victory at Easter with a dry throat, dry stomach, and dry lifestyle is because of the failure of the successive administrations, as well as the existing one.”

According to him, the government needs to provide cold water to quench the thirst of Nigerians, saying that people have been crying out loud like Jesus on the cross, that they were thirsty, but, sadly, the leaders do not appear to care.

He wished that Nigerian leaders could learn from the soldiers that policed Jesus on the cross, stressing that when the Lord cried out of thirst, they provided vinegar for succour.

The preacher stressed that the government needs to provide cold water to quench the thirst of Nigerians.

Hayab noted that Nigerians have been crying out loud like Jesus when he was put on the cross, that they are thirsty.

He said: “But, sadly, the leaders do not appear to care. However, there is a lesson that I wish Nigerian leaders could learn from the soldiers that policed Jesus on the cross. When the Lord cried out of thirst, they provided vinegar for succour.”

Hayab insisted that it is disgraceful and disheartening for the government to abandon citizens in pain without showing genuine concern.

The CAN leader, however, appealed to the Nigerian government, both at the various levels, to take concrete steps toward providing palliatives that could quench the thirst of Nigerians and make them have confidence in the affairs of the country.

“The citizens, on their part, should similarly be one another’s keeper by contributing meaningfully to national growth; they should also support to quench the thirst of their neighbours, friends, and the less privileged near them,” said Hayab.