By Joy Ude
The General Supretendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, William Kumuyi, on Saturday urged Nigerians to pay sacrifices for one another as change agents and not to be self centred.
Kumuyi gave the advise during a Global Men’s Conference Organised by the Change Makers International (CMI), in Port Harcourt.
The Six-day conference was with the theme is,”Driving positive change and social impact”.
Kumuyi who is the Convener of the CMI initiative, spoke about refreshing and refining change makers.
He stated that when refreshing comes in a man’s life, he sees something a fresh and look at something refreshing.
According to him, when a man allows God to mol…
[3:46 pm, 20/08/2024] Precious NAN: Kumuyi calls on Nigerians to shun bribery, corruption for a better nation
By Ihuaku Ogu
Port Harcourt, Aug.19, 2024
The General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry,William Kumuyi, has called on Nigerians to reject bribery and corruption, embrace honestly, transparency and accountability to achieve a better nation.
Kumuyi made the call on Sunday night in Port Harcourt during a Global Men’s Conference organised by the Change Makers International(CMI).
Kumuyi who is the Founder and the Convener of CMI spoke on “Promises in the part of a strategic change maker”with the reference from phillipians 3 :14 to 16.
Kumuyi said that a positive change maker has rewards,and protection from God which no man can stop.
“There is a purpose in a man’s life and nobody can silence it. Purpose of heart, we must know what we are doing and why we are doing it because there is a prize to pay at the end.
A change maker has purpose and mission to achieve positive growth in his family, community, his work place and his country.
“A change maker is a model, he has priority and virtue, he has a proficiency and visibility as a change mentor as seen in Daniel 5:8.
“Change is the right direction for our country Nigeria now.
We have to focus on being a change model otherwise or communities and the society will collapse.
“Let us say in our local churches, our mosques and our communities that we must stand against corruption, God will deliver us like he delivered Daniel in the lions den.
“The change we war is against corruption, against embezzlement, against bad governance, against pollution, against wrong doing, against darkness and evil in the society.
“If anybody in position that thinks he is rich, offers you money to support corruption or evil, do not compromise rather say no to that offer, tell him or her that you are a change maker”.
“If you want to be a change maker, you must not dance the music of corruption rather be on the side of God because God is higher than thay corrupt man or woman, so refuse corruption or evil doing God’s will protect you from their arrows and persecutions.
“Criticism should not move us rather wer have to keep moving, knowing that we are in the hand of God and they cannot destroy us.
“As proficiency and visibility of a change mentor,we should look at the future, we should not be the ones to kill our dreams, if we kill or dreams we will not succeed but anyone that want to kill our dreams cannot as long as we have not killed or own dreams because dreamers do not die.
“The dream of a change nation is hanging on us, so we must make sure we achieve the change as a country, “Kumuyi said.
Earlier, Prof. Ibraham Suberu, a Lecturer University of Port Harcourt, Department of Religious and Cultural Studies,who spoke on “Handing down sound legacies and values to the up coming generation”said that things had fallen apart in the society.
Suberu said that the conference was directed to humans so Nigerians should see it that they were directly spoken to for a change.
He said that Legacy is good values parents and society lives behind for their children, family amongst others, but not dubious legacies.
“We have moral decades,we have distrust,family disunity, greed, selfishness and valueless, this is why Prophet Mohammed in Koran said that a time will come when killers will be asked why they killed.
“If parents don’t imbibe the culture from our forefathers to our children, they will not have values and legacies to pass on to their own generation.
“Koran 13:11 says that Allah will not change the value of the nation except they decide change themselves,we have to follow the legacies left by our forefathers which are dignity and honour.
“We have to imbibe in our children commercial responsibility and solidarity, we have to teach them respect for authorities to elders, how to preserve our cultural heritage, hardworking and self sufficiency,Justice and fairnes, spirituality and religion,” he said.
He urged parents to strengthen family units, and be role models to their children.
“Let them honour the value of families, let your children discuss the ethical values with you as their parents, there should be inter generational bonding, bond your children with their grand parents and elders,”he said.
Suberu appealed to government and teachers to inculcate in curriculum values to teach the children on how to embrace cultural values and religious Inclusiveness.
He also urged the media and content creators to promote positive media contents.