Prelate of the Methodist Church, Nigeria, Rev. Chukwuemeka Uche yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to fulfill his campaign promises to Nigerians.
Rev. Uche ascribed the increasing youth restiveness, kidnapping and other vices to unemployment.
The cleric said getting the nation’s young ones employed could save them from crimes.
The prelate, who spoke in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when he visited Governor Ibikunle Amosun, named agriculture as one area of the economy that could help solve youths’ idleness.
Rev. Uche, who said he was in the state on an apostolic visit, appealed to the governor to return all Methodist schools to the mission.
According to him, the church has been in the vanguard of educating Nigerians for a very long time.
He also appealed to the governor to compensate churches affected by the ongoing construction work in the state.
Amosun promised to revisit the issue of transfer of schools to missions and also shared the Prelate’s submission that unemployment could be tackled through agriculture.
The governor solicited prayers from the church, saying the government and the country “cannot have too much prayers as it was prayers that made the last election peaceful against all evil predictions.”