By Dayo Johnson, Akure

OVER 180 bishops, laity and Clergy of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) converged on Akure, the Ondo State capital from Monday to Thursday last week to seek the face of God over the challenges of insurgency and kidnapping in the country.

Primate of the church, Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh said the only way out of the current spate of terrorism is “to look up to Jesus in simple faith and obedience.”

Speaking at the Cathedral Church of Saint David, Diocese of Akure, the venue of meeting of the church standing committee titled; “Look and live”, Okoh expressed worries over “the poisonous serpent of insurgency and kidnapping ravaging the country”, lamenting that “these people kill, maim and destroy without the slightest qualms and most times in very crude and dastardly manner.

“In their wicked operations, children and women are not spared. They are kidnapped and subjected to forced labour and sex slavery. The most worrisome aspect of this development is the kind of sponsorship they enjoy and their rate of recruitment of new members with ease.

“This world is truly bitten by the poisonous serpents, and like Israel in the desert, is sick and need divine intervention urgently. We must resist this wind of false doctrine, corruption, transgender and sexual immorality in all its forms blowing around the world,” he stated.

The host bishop, Simeon Borokini said the meeting is of spiritual benefit to the diocese as a way forward for the propagation of the gospel.

The Archbishop of Ondo Province, Most Rev. Latunji Lasebikan said the problem with Nigeria “is not in the resources we are endowed with but in their management”, noting that the managers of “our resources have done injustice to our destiny”.

Gov. Olusegun Mimiko, a special guest at the meeting, noted that the challenge of terrorism facing the country was not beyond the power of God, praying God to uphold the country and make it great.