Lockdown: ‘Church leaders should provide food for their members’

The Managing Director of an Abuja-based Christian magazine, Exploits, Bro. Chris Agada, had called on Church leaders and rich Christians all over the country to give succor to their members, in order to cope with the lockdown order given by President Muhammadu Buhari in the fight against the spread of coronavirus.

Agada said church leaders should support the efforts of the government, by mapping out strategies to provide food and other needs for their members.

According to him, many Nigerians are working in the informal sector, and locking them at their various homes without palliative measures, may lead to chaos and anarchy.

“Many of them would tell you that instead of hunger to kill me and their family at home, it is better to go out and die of coronavirus,” he said.

Agada said, the only way out of the crisis is for church leaders, as well as rich Christians to as a matter of urgency map out strategies of bringing succor to their church members and other less- privileged Christians, by providing foods directly to them.

“Keeping Nigerians at home for the next 14 days without providing palliative measures, might lead to unimaginable catastrophe, which might be deadlier than the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said.