Chairman,Rivers State House of Assembly Committee on Environment, Hon Victoria Nyeche (right), discussing with Divisional Police Officer for Rivers State Environmental Sanitation Authority, SP Rufina Ukadike (left),during the committee’s oversight functions’ visit to the Rivers State Environmental Sanitation Authority, Port Harcourt, recently. With them are Sole Administrator,RSESA, Mr Ade Adeogun (middle) and other personalities. Photo: Chris Monyanaga.
The National Director of
Harvest Time Fellowship of Churches International, Bishop Godswill E.D. Jumbo, has called on the Federal Government to set a time frame to end gas flaring in the country.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen at the end of a one day National Word Conference in Port Harcourt, Bishop Jumbo said that continuous flaring of gas by multinational companies was affecting the Niger Delta and its people.
The cleric also suggested the use of expatriates to handle the issue of pollution, stressing that the conference which was organised by the fellowship was to seek for divine intervention in the affairs of the nation.
According to him, the conference which has the theme: “Where Is The God Of Our Fathers,” is to seek God’s intervention to check the menace of corruption and the Boko Haram insurgency.
He also commended President Goodluck Jonathan and the Chief of Army Staff General Minimah for containing the insurgency.
Speaking on the topic: Community Policing: Why the Church Should Partner with the Police,” the Chairman Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) Rivers State, Mr Young, said that the church can partner with the police to check crime through the provision of equipment to the police.
Mr Young further said that the formation of neighbourhood watch should be part of the responsibilities of churches, stressing that by so doing crime will be drastically reduced in the society.
He decried the poor allocation to the police force, stressing that this situation has underscored the need for churches and other organisations to support the force to check criminality.
Speaking on the theme: “Where is the God of our fathers,” Pastor Frank Opunye of Bible Faith Church said that God of old is also the God of today and charged Christians to always put God in their dealings.