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  • ‘The altar is not a place to attack fellow preachers’ – Pastor Oyeleke

    ‘The altar is not a place to attack fellow preachers’ – Pastor Oyeleke

    Pastor David Oyeleke has cautioned fellow preachers against misusing the pulpit.

    He emphasised that the pulpit should be dedicated to delivering spiritual messages and guiding congregations, not for personal self-promotion or undermining other preachers’ contributions.

    He further highlighted that the pulpit is a sacred space intended for uplifting and unifying the faith community.

    Oyeleke urged preachers to focus on their spiritual responsibilities and respect their peers’ efforts, fostering an environment of mutual support and collaboration.

    He made these remarks on Wednesday, August 7, during his teaching on “Cleansing All The House of The Lord” at the 48th International Convention of The Apostolic Church Nigeria, LAWNA Territory, themed “We Must All Appear Before the Judgment Seat of Christ.”

    He said: “The altar is not a place for cooking, it is not a place for refreshment, it is not a place to hold family or community meetings, It is not a place to demonstrate diabolic prowess.

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    “The altar is not a place for partiality. It is not a place for preachers to be attacking one another, you are defiling the temple of God.”

    He further stressed that the church should not be turned into a multipurpose hall for reception and after-party celebrations.

    “The church of God should not be used as a multipurpose hall, it is a house of God, it is a Bethel, it is a house of reverence and it is a house of prayer. Let the awesomeness be retained.

    “It should not be used as a reception. It should not be used as a place to eat after any ceremony, because it is evil,” he said.

  • Unbidden offering on the altar of vultures

    An Ivy League education without ethics makes a trust fund ‘baby’ an expensive toy without batteries. Substandard education makes the middling youth even worse. It moulds him into a broken toy without appeal. They are both disposable but they enjoy patronage anyway – by the ones Wole Soyinka eloquently described as the wasted generation.

    The Nigerian youth is a breed with all the personality of a paper cup. Thus like paper cups, we are used and disposed by men and women unfit to be elders. Yet whatever callousness we are forced to endure, our elders are not to blame. They should not be blamed, for we made ourselves unbidden offering on the altar of vultures.

    It is the malady of this age that the youth are too busy preaching that they have no time left to learn. In Nigeria, we are too busy dumbing down that we barely have time left to grow. It is a sad manifestation of stunted growth that we evolve into foetal adults and spend the rest of our lives seeking the comfort of debilitating “life boats.”

    It is even more disheartening to see us adopt as a favourite past time, the pillorying of our elders and the rapacious ruling class. Many a Nigerian youth love to prophesy the worst about our fatherland thus it is never surprising to hear the average youth pronounce with emphatic pessimism thus: “This country is doomed” or “Nigeria is finished.”

    The Igbo youth laments his persistent marginalization from the scheme of things. He believes Nigeria is skewed to work against him and fellow Igbo because his peers from other ethnic groups are wary of his towering acumen, industry, courage and political savvy.

    The Hausa youth believes he has the right to inexplicably reign supreme and lord it over his peers without resort to merit. And the Yoruba youth, goaded by sentiments of his higher wisdom, towering depth in diplomacy, culture and politics believes that he is entitled to the best the country has to offer, on a platter of gold.

    The contemporary youth frantically perpetuates his sense of victimhood and entitlement. The idea is to keep whining until he gets lucky and corner an immense portion of the proverbial national cake, with minimal exertion and at no cost.

    We used to be regarded as the promising youth, the gifted generation that would rescue Nigeria from the brink of ruin. But that spell of hopefulness has dissipated now. Our “wasted” elders have seen through our noise and bluster. They know we are increasingly handicapped by greed and lack of creed. By creed, I mean a coherent and specific set of goals, a consistent series of norms according to which society is to be remade.

    Since we have learnt to blame the ruling class for everything, what is it that we want from the ruling class? We don’t need their permission to make something of the world where they have failed but we still live our lives seeking their permission to evolve positively and maturely.

    It takes courage and decency to evolve a humane ideology and establish it. We haven’t the courage and the will, and this interferes with our ability to accomplish progressive change. More worrisome are our violent attempts to be radical; eventually they resonate too feebly as a kind of rudderless activism.

    We identify all that is wrong with our society but we are never specific about what must be done to correct them. It is easy to join a picket line and castigate our elders and ruling class for everything that is wrong with our lives but these actions, while they demonstrate frustration, in some instances even heroism, deal generally with symptoms of· our problems and not the solutions.

    All the picket lines in the world would not resolve the maladies of fraudulent and impatient youth, perverted values, greed, racism, disillusionment with scholarship and substandard education.

    A broad wave of disillusionment persist above the silver linings we seek to succeed our darksome clouds. Yet with precision and unfaltering devotion, we work ourselves up into such a state that we can only see the volcanic flare of our destructive acts as glitters of grandeur.

    We have perfected the art of standing on barrel-heads to spout and be seen, while we engage in pursuit and acquisition of mostly unearned wealth and greatness. Eventually, we luxuriate and spread out like a green forest with sour fruits and severed roots.

    Apparently, we suffer a throwback to the 70s – the era that launched a trend in which Nigerians became preoccupied with themselves more than the survival of the nation. Self preservation has become an inexorable obsession of many youths seeking to escape the slow, steady path with its craters of mishap and socio-economic vagaries.

    What Joshua Lubin identifies as the “Me” decade has indeed, recoiled inward rather than concern itself with crucial national issues, like national progress and ethical rebirth. Therefore, popular culture attracts dubious labels such as “narcissistic” and “decadent” from critics and the “wasted” older generation.

    The Nigerian youth has become so self-involved that almost every action and train of thought perpetuated by him serves as an instrumental resource to situate this generation in historical context, as perfect illustration of the much-hackneyed and over-exploited “Lost Generation.”

    Our inordinate quest for self-fulfillment further establishes us as the worst that could possibly happen to a heavily endowed nation like Nigeria.

    But we aren’t actually so bad. If we could look inwards to summon latent will and channel it towards the rejuvenation of outdated mores of morality and simple decencies, our lot could change for better.

    Yet some gothic rabble would read this and consider it “Pollyannaish.” To this lot, any enthusiastic lunge at hope or belief in a brighter tomorrow, manifests as blind optimism and a pathetic attempt to be patriotic even while it’s absolutely idiotic to do so.

    They would love to see the nation ruin in order to justify their inordinate cynicism and yearnings about the pointlessness of the Nigerian dream. They continually affirm their ill will and prayers of doom for the nation by tirelessly projecting separation and insurmountable bleakness on the Nigerian state.

    Individually, their contribution towards nation building is virtually non-existent or abysmally low, they are amazingly adept at sowing seeds of doubt and disillusionment amongst their peer and younger generation. But they love to be seen as heroes of truth and the new world.

    These are company to be scorned and avoided by progressive youth.

  • Like unbidden offering on the altar of greed

    We belabour the ‘Nigerian dream.’ We abuse the idea that life will get better, that progress is assured if we keep faith, obey the rules and work hard; that prosperity is guaranteed if we continue to tread the slow, steady path to progress and a prosperous future. And in pursuit of these lofty ideals, we pervert the steady, measured, impartial course of the universe; hacking pliant paths to our dreams, from the crossroads where gluttony cavorts with depravity.

    Eventually, we awaken to a cold, bitter truth: We are being sacrificed. The Nigerian dream we are sold isn’t worth our sacrifice. And the individual dreams we pursue, aren’t worth a smidgen of what we make them out to be. By the time we all struggle to achieve our dreams, Nigeria will be finished. Given that each tribe may finally achieve its dreams of nationhood via secession, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw to mention a few may establish their new nations.

    When we do, the swollen belly of our pride shall become visible to us. When it does, it shall suddenly dawn on us that, all along, we had been blindly acting to a script prepared by career predators from Western nations of Europe, America and our ruling class.

    The truth will become clearer to us we shall hopelessly realize that we are being sacrificed. We will all be sacrificed; some of us much quicker than others. As it is now, so shall it be in our new nations, the Biafran youth, Ijaw youth, Oodua youth and Arewa youth to mention a few, shall become disposable indices in the scheme of things.

    But until then, we will continue to have today and squander it on the altar of racism and greed. Today, it’s impossible to see any offspring of our ruling class engage or become embroiled in the familiar tragedies that mar our lives. It’s always children from the breadlines, struggling middle class and backwaters that are involved. We are the youth divide traditionally required to serve as unthinking muscles and cannon fodder in the ruling class’ blueprint of pillage and destruction.

    The decline of Nigeria is a story of gross injustices by the ruling class to the citizenry. But that is only an aspect of it, the greatest injustice is that meted out by individual citizen to self – the youth particularly. And this predominant malaise often plays out in our corruptibility and disinclination to foster a more humane leadership and society.

    Today, we suffer declining standards of living, stagnant and falling wages that are hardly paid at due time. We suffer curtailment and absolute denial of our basic wages, long-term unemployment, slave labour, escalating crime wave, among other ills.

    We perpetuate gruesome realities of the weakest being crushed decisively and maniacally by the affluent and strong. Together, we perpetuate a story of unbridled sectarian, ethnic and corporate power that has taken our government hostage, overseen the dismantling of our cultural heritage, societal and entrepreneurial values.

    But if the ruling class, in connivance with predatory nations and institutions from the so-called ‘first world’ is responsible for plundering our natural resources and bankrupting the nation, we, the youth, are responsible for even worse atrocities.

    We serve as the tools by which the ruling class and its cohorts overseas plunder and destroy our nation. The virus of political corruption, the perverted belief that only political and material profit matters, has spread to distort our thoughts and understanding of right and wrong. Today, it manifests in endemic proportions plaguing our communities with religious and political terrorism, economic and cyber-terrorism to mention a few.

    The Nigerian society dies a gruesome death because we lay to waste, our youths and we, the latter, by our suicidal actions and thoughts, submit as prey to the predatory ruling class and their cohorts overseas.

    Everyday encounters with gluttonous gangs of struggling youth reveals among other things, that many of us are the same social products as our peer from the aristocratic divide. Conditioned by life’s harshest vicissitudes to survive at all cost, we lay in wait, striving and bidding our time until we are ably positioned and strong enough to serve or rob the rich whose life we earnestly covet and decry.

    A visit to any night club, party, religious organization or office still attests to this fact. Ambitious and upwardly mobile youth from the breadlines or struggling working class families engage in a variety of excesses to the applause of mates yearning to be in their shoes. Either as advance fee fraudsters, bankers, journalists, accountants, secretaries, factory hands or ordinary clerks, youths from the breadlines daily engages in a bitter, desperate struggle to chance on the shortest possible cut to sudden and stupendous wealth.

    We seem beset by a greater and unexplainable fear beyond the fear of poverty amongst other harsh realities of our lives. Fear plays a greater part than hope: we are infinitely buoyed and obsessed with thoughts of the money that we could make or the possessions that might be taken from us or elude us, than of the joy and value that we might add to our own lives and to the future of our fatherland.

    Most of us, like our more privileged peer crave the best of everything without actually sweating for it. And when we do sweat for it, our industry is tainted by vigorous dashes of impatience and duplicity. In our work, we are haunted by jealousy of competitors, and a fleeting interest in the actual work that has to be done. We spend greater time and passion defending unjust privileges that we are desperate to enjoy.

    Such appalling youth constitute a greater segment of the human element expected to salvage Nigeria from eternal ruin and bloodbath. Consequently, our society becomes more rudderless and unstable and vulnerable, on our watch. Now that Nigeria as our fathers, ‘the wasted generation’ made it, and we the youth, aggravate it, have begun to collapse, we withdraw from the possibility of rebirth, and instead choose to exploit the infinite possibilities in our fragility and predicted collapse.

    It’s about time the Nigerian youth started postponing immediate gratification and endure hard sacrifices spurred by conviction that the future can be better than the past. Beyond the politics and inanities of our existing ruling class and political parties, we face far more difficult questions at our moment in history: How do we reconcile reality with promises that have been made to us? How do we make the best of our circumstances at the backdrop of indefensible leadership failure and disillusionment of the citizenry?  How do we evolve and nurture to fruition, a new vision to help us deal with our gruesome realities, even as we chart a promising story of the future? How do we divorce ourselves from the pains and disappointments of the past – particularly those that many of amongst us had no stake in but yet internalize and perpetuate unexplainable miseries thereby?

    How do we redefine “Peace, Unity and Progress” with our lust for “Life, Liberty and Happiness?”  How do we become more humane than we are now?

  • Runaway brides:Why they abandon their grooms at the altar

    Runaway brides:Why they abandon their grooms at the altar

    The lights and drapes glittered as various colours of aso ebi (ceremonial uniform) added aura to the ambience of the church hall. The organ played slowly in the background as the officiating pastor tried to fill the waiting time with some announcements. Soon, it will be time for the bride and groom to walk into the hall to tie the nuptial knot.

    The groom, smartly and expensively dressed, was already within the premises awaiting the arrival of the bride believed to have been held back by the long hours she needed to be fully dressed. After all, it was her day and the people could wait. However, impatience began to set in as minutes turned into hours, with no sign of the bride in sight. The pep talks from the altar began to dry up.

    The bated anxiety soon gave way to confusion as the bride’s mother let out a shout and slumped. Then the gruesome reality dawned on everyone: the bride had absconded.

    The foregoing is reminiscent of the scenario in Ondo town penultimate Saturday when Miss Taiwo Orimoloye failed to show up in her church for her wedding ceremony, leaving not only her husband- to-be but the guests who had come from far and near disappointed and confused. It was learnt that the couple had begun their wedding rites as far back as December last year at the residence of the bride’s parents where members of both families had met for the traditional wedding. There also was the decision made to fix the church wedding for April 9, 2017. On the said day, however, the bride failed to show up, stalling the consummation of the holy matrimony.

    But the Ondo incident was just one in a list of similar ones that had occurred before then. In Delta State on October 29, 2016, for instance, a 41-year-old man identified as Julius got a rude shock when his supposed bride abandoned her martial vows midway into their wedding ceremonies, leaving everyone in shock at the wedding reception in Udu Local Government Area of the state, as she shouted, “I am no longer interested!”

    Although the bewildered husband and the bridal train ran after the bride named Roseline, pleas for her to return to the reception did not yield results. It would later come to light from information offered by a close friend of Roseline that another man who had promised to marry the bride showed up at the reception. “We heard that he had promised to marry the bride, but he later travelled to Lagos and never showed up again,” the friend reportedly said.

    A hilarious dimension to the phenomenon occurred in Akwa Ibom State where a bride reportedly stormed out of the reception on discovering that the husband was not an employee of Chevron, a popular oil exploration company, as he had made her to believe. The incident, it was learnt, occurred in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The relationship, it was gathered, was fostered on the social media and the details didn’t emerge until the wedding day. However, the bride could not go far before the groom and some guests caught up with her and forced her back to the reception venue, according to a Facebook user who broke the story.

    Considering the trauma and pain their action is capable of causing family and friends, what really could make a bride or groom to abscond on their wedding day?

    Prof. Mabayoje Aluko of the Department of Sociology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, said there cannot be a single explanation for the ugly phenomenon. He identified some reasons why a bride may choose to abscond from a wedding. One of them, he said, is the fact that a bride/groom may disappear if there is a negative discovery which portends grave consequences if the marriage contract is signed.

    He also said a runaway incident could occur if one of the parties kept a secret about an important issue from the other for a long time during courtship. Instances can be having a child in school, having a serious health challenge or history of insanity, a drug addict, even HIV/AIDS or unmatchable genotype.

    The don also did not fail to mention spiritual influence, saying that in the last minute, some people would consult spiritualists, astrologers, prophets, star readers and the likes, who may tell them not to go ahead with the marriage.

    “It could be purely a spiritual matter as it could be circumstances which cannot be explained in the ordinary. One of the partners could be under a spell or spiritual attack and then will begin to do things for which he or she may not have ready justification or explanation,” he said.

    Identifying other factors, Prof Aluko also fingered double dating, which he said could make either party to renege on the D-day. He said: “These days, people no longer involve their parents or the family in the selection of a partner. In the past, the parents and members of the family on both sides would do a thorough background check on a would-be suitor and some very vital information would be uncovered. Nowadays, people do it alone and sometimes start dating online with a person they have not met physically.

    “Another factor could be religious differences such as one being a Christian and the other a Muslim. They may not be able to reach an agreement on which religion they will stick to after marriage.”

    Pastor Mrs Tinu Oyenuga, an educationist and member of the clergy, is of the opinion that like deep waters, there are many warring thoughts on the minds of people who make last-minute moves that could leave mouths agape.

    Citing lack of genuine counselling of intending couples as one reason why such could happen, she stated: “Irrespective of faith, age, prosperity, intending couples should go through at least three months of marital counselling. Anxieties and doubts would have been discerned by experienced counsellors and couples could be advised to defer marriage until issues are resolved. In most runaway bride or groom cases, significant persons in these people’s lives are so absorbed with preparations that they are blind to failing emotions.”

    A relationship coach, Mrs Adetutu Bola-Adesanya, said a bride/groom may walk out of a wedding at the final minute owing to revenge, which might be because of a past hurt or lack of interest. She did not fail to mention spiritual influence, taking into cognizance African culture and traditions.

    What’s psychology got to do with it?

    Since marriage is an affair attached to emotions, it will not be out of place to explore the state of the mind in dissecting the runaway bride/groom phenomenon. The factors which stood out from the psychological perspectives are stress and mental health.

    Mr Femi Agberotimi, a practising clinical psychologist at the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital (LAUTECH), is of the view that since marriage is one of life’s major events that lead to a long term/permanent change in an individual’s status and self-concept, the preparations and ceremony can lead to a high tendency of stress and negative emotions.

    “It is therefore not surprising when some individuals respond to stress in a way that reflects a significant change in their thinking, mood and behaviour. More often than not, however, such responses that could range from irritability to discontinuing/running away from wedding are distressing to significant other people in the life of the bride or the groom.

    “Similarly, some people take decisions that are considered irrational, such as running away on wedding day because of their prevailing mental state at the time of the event. Such people may have history of mental illness or suffering from a particular psychological dysfunction that is either undetected or untreated because of poor health care behaviour.”

    Agberotimi added that people with certain deficiencies like non-assertiveness, poor problem-solving skills, maladaptive personality traits like high neuroticism, personality disorder like borderline or avoidant, are known to cause distress to self or others as a result of their deficiencies, which negatively impact their thinking, mood and behaviour.

    He said: “From another perspective, some people with healthy and functioning mental state can as well take decisions like running away from a wedding because of their sense of freedom of will. This set of people may have been in a relationship because of pressure and suddenly realise a greater risk such relationship poses to their freedom of will and mental wellbeing. Such could make a drastic decision at the last minute in a quest to finding meaning

  • Wole Oladiyun’s daughter set for altar

    Wole Oladiyun’s daughter set for altar

    The General Overseer of Christ Livingspring Apostolic Ministry (CLAM), Pastor Wole Oladiyun, must no doubt have derived immense spiritual satisfaction in the church’s annual solution night which took place a few days ago. But the real reason for his jubilant mood at the moment is the fact that he is about to be made a proud father. His daughter, Ayomide Oladiyun, is set for marriage.

    The 24-year-old amiable young girl attended Dansol High School before proceeding to Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State. Ayomide is a perfect blend of beauty and brain. She also bagged a master’s degree from Coventry University in the United Kingdom in 2013. She is currently the CE0 of Mimi Cakes, a highly patronised confectionery outfit located at Omole Phase One, Lagos.

    The beautiful look-alike of her adorable mother is set to wed in December and plans are in top gear to ensure it turns out a grand ceremony. Already, invitation cards have been sent out by the two families of Pastor Wole Oladiyun and Pastor Ayodeji Oke. The wedding ceremony will take place at CLAM church on Saturday 26th December, 2015 with a grand reception afterwards at CLAM Event Centre, Omole Phase 1, Lagos.

    The groom, Olumayowa Adeoto Oke, is a minister of the gospel and the General Overseer of Open Heavens Church in Dallas, Texas, USA.

  • Alapini’s son set for the altar

    Joy and laughter have berthed in the household of AIG Tunji Alapini (rtd). His second son, Anthony Ademola Alapini will be getting married in a matter of weeks to his sweetheart, Oluwatomilayo Omotayosi Awonuga, the beautiful daughter of Bishop Olukayode Olusola Awonuga.

    The anticipated high-octane wedding is scheduled to hold on Saturday, September 12, 2015 at Mount Jiekorrar All Saints Church of Christ (Aladura) in Ijebu -Ode. Reception will follow at The Prince Hall Centre in Ijebu Ode.

    AIG Alapini, a popular socialite, will be throwing a big society wedding for his son and many big shots are expected to be in attendance.

  • Drama as 107-yr-old man takes heartthrob, 95, to altar

    Drama as 107-yr-old man takes heartthrob, 95, to altar

    For 70 years, Elder Dikam Garba Dabo’ok and MrsKa’a Nafung had lived together as husband and wife. But the couple, now 107 and 95 years respectively, have found a new sparkle to rekindle their marital love in the church.

    The church ceremony in Plateau State, has remained the talk of the town in the social diary of the state and may remain so for a long time. This is particularly so because the celebrants are the first couple in the history of the state to be administered marital vow at such unusual ages.

    At 95, the bride is well past her menopause. Her surviving first child is 65 years old. The groom, popularly known to many in his neighbourhood as Baba Dikam, is 107 years old and may no longer be sexually active. But all that is not enough to discourage the couple from walking down the aisle arm-in-arm for a new marital oath.

    The ceremony, which was held at the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), Chizu village in Bwai, Mangu Local Government Area of the state, was a delight to watch as it was packaged in the manner that young grooms and brides would walk down the aisle. The groom was dressed in black suite and a red neck tie to match, while the bride stepped out dressed in a pure white wedding gown with a neatly made hair to match. They drove to the church in separate vehicles, as if they never met before. The groom was accompanied by cutely dressed men and the bride by a long bridal train.

    They had a procession and matched into the church separately as if they never met before. They only came together after they were wedded by the officiating pastor. The officiating pastor of the church, Rev. Tongwe Sale, congratulated the couple and admonished them as if they were young couples. He said: “Marriage is ordained by God and it should be kept sacred.” He charged them to keep faith in God since they are still alive, noting that although they are old, they can still be important in the lives of their children and grand children.

    Taking his message from Genesis 1:26-27, Rev. Elisha Pam spoke on the topic, “Marriage: Highly mysterious” and pointed out that when God created Adam, the woman was already in existence in the body of man, after which she was brought out in a mysterious way and Adam named her Eve. He noted that the grounds for a solid marriage are patience and obedience through Christ as he read Ephesians 5:21

    They happily took the oath that they would love themselves until death do them apart. They also vowed not to allow a third party in their marital life. They signed the marriage certificate after the service and marched out of the church dancing to the admiration of their guests.

    When they got outside the church auditorium, the newly wedded couple posed for photograph in various styles and angles. After the photograph session, they moved in a car and zoomed off to the reception ground accompanied by their guests, children, friends and family members.

    When it was time to cut the wedding cake, the couple walked hand in hand to where the colourful cake was placed. The groom continuously gazed at his wedding ring in a manner that suggests that the occasion was a dream come true for him. Like marksmen, they held the knife firmly and on completion of the spelling of Jesus, they cut the cake and feebly smiled at the guests. They trilled their guests with the ceremonial culture of couple feeding one another with the cake and non-alcoholic wine. After feeding themselves, the newly wedded couple danced to the music blasting from the loud speakers in “old school” style to the admiration of their guests.

    It was celebration galore at the reception for the family and friends of the couple. The couples told their excited guests at the reception their true life stories. They said it was the grace of God that allowed them to solemnise their marriage in the church.

    The groom narrated his life story thus: “I had seven wives and 32 children during my younger days, but I did so because I did not know Christ. But that made me great among my contemporaries as only those who were wealthy could do that. But in spite of that, God remained faithful and merciful for me. I have a lot of testimonies to show that God was so faithful to me. I am now in a better position to advise my children and my well wishers to live the life of Christ. I don’t want any of my children to emulate my past life style, because you may fall out of the grace and mercies of God. But I’m so pleased because my children are committed to Christ; they lived the life of Christ, they were the ones that insisted I must come to Christ and take their mother to the altar.

    “Before now we lived our lives outside Christ, but from today, we are now confirmed children of Christ. It would have been worse for us if we had died without Christ. But God has protected our lives up till this moment to come to Him.”

    One of the children of the couple, Barr. Zephaniah Garba was full of appreciation and praises to God when he spoke with our reporter. He said: “I am full of joy today because my father has come to profess Christ at his old age. I have been looking forward to this day and I thank God they were able to make it. I want to encourage those who did not conduct their marriage in Christian way to try and do so; it is never late. My father’s own should be an example to others, you can still do it”.

    There were goodwill messages from the Chairmen of PCC Kabwir, Rev. David Musa, and Langtang North LG Chairman elect, Hon. Daniel Dandul, while various dance groups added colour to the event as the couples cut their wedding cake.