Dr. Reuben Abati, the former Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity has waded into the ongoing crisis between Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka and the Catholic Church advising the Catholic Church to transfer him to the Boko Haram headquarters in Sambisa forest.
Dr. Abati who said this in response to the reaction of the Rev. Father to his transfer to a new parish where he will act as the assistant priest said this in his latest aticle titled “Mbaka: Priest, politician or renegade?”.
In the article, Abati wondered why Mbaka whose lamentation goes thus; “I’m going to suffer because I have no place to put my head. I am going to suffer because I have no place to keep the Adoration Ministry’s assets…The Adoration Ministry is passing through suffering right now even though I’ve accepted that it is the will of God. Is the will of God through suffering? It is a mega suffering. “The quantum of the assets of the Adoration Ministry is the only thing I am bothered about for now. Where am I going to keep them? I am going to stay in one small room that has only one small bed, one small table, little toilet and bathroom. So where am I going to keep all the Adoration assets?” was complaining bitterly about his transfer instead of abiding peacefully by the decision of higher authorities.
Abati continued that the Priest’s lamentation was as though he was sentenced to a jail term, further describing Mbaka as an all- round entrepreneur in church garments.
He said; “Mbaka’s transfer to a smaller parish should remind him of the essence of his priestly vows: humility, simplicity, obedience, sacrifice, as well as commitment to the good of the church rather than individual heroism, values which can truly make him a priest in the Order of Melchizedek.
“Let him therefore, suffer if he must, and let his suffering be a blessing upon the poor and the Church, and if he as much as whimpers again, let him be posted post-haste to Sambisa forest, where the poor are in urgent need of miracles.”