Social critic and aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has said Nigerians should disregard the counsel of Pastor Enock Adeboye of the Redeemed Christ Church of God who said they should pray for the naira to gain strength.
Omokri, who is also a pastor, said what Nigerians need to do is to work with all their combined strength to shore up the purchasing power of the nation’s currency.
Adeboye some days ago had called on Nigerians to go spiritual to salvage the naira that daily loses value as against other major currencies worldwide.
But Omokri in a lengthy note to the General Overseer of the RCCG appealed to him to use his influence as leader of a very huge church for members to work instead of using all their productive hours to pray which would not change anything.
His note read in full, “Thank you for your call. We love you and honour your contribution to the growth of the church. However, I again beg to differ. The Naira situation is not something we should PRAY about with all our strength. Rather, it is a situation that requires us to WORK with all our combined strengths.
Other nations with high-value currencies did not achieve that feat via prayers. They got there through hard work and sound economic policies. And many of them, like China and Japan, are non-praying, non-tithing, non-Christian nations. That is why in China, a Chinese man who was asked, ‘Do you know Christ?’ responded with, ‘No. But if you show me, I will produce a copy!’ It sounds funny, but it goes to the root of their economic success.
Prayers are for things we cannot do ourselves. If we live by the Godly principle of ‘you reap what you sow’, then we would not need to pray for things that we have not sown.
Nigeria has the largest church auditorium on Earth. The current world record holder actually broke the record set by another Nigerian church. Perhaps if we also had the world’s largest manufacturing plants instead of just the globe’s largest church auditorium, we would not be in this fix.
You have millions of members under your influence as the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. If you want the Naira to rise, tell your members to switch from Airtel and MTN to Glo. Tell them to eat Dangote spaghetti and other staples. And encourage them to drive Innoson vehicles.
Then, reduce your church activities. RCCG members attend church almost daily. Pick only one or two days. And then tell your members to go to work at their jobs or businesses on the other days.
Finally, use your considerable influence to counsel your members and other Nigerians not to see the rainy season as ‘weather for two’, but instead use it to go to the farms and cultivate what we eat so that Nigeria can reduce her $5 billion annual food import bill.
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If millions of RCCG members implement such a directive, Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product will explode.
But to rely on prayer alone is both unscriptural and unscientific. We must remember that God promised to “bless all the work of your hands” in Deuteronomy 28:12. Prayer is not work. It is faith. And, James 2:17 says, “Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”
Thanks again, sir, and may God bless you.”