A Call to Prayer as Community
“if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. ” (2Chr 7:14)
As a community, we are concerned by the challenges faced by the University historically as well as in the recent past. These include among others: disagreements in administration, authenticity of and compliance to fees payment policies, fraudulent dealings that cause financial loss to the University, unsatisfactory system for students’ clearance resulting in graduation difficulties.
Attempts to address the above challenges have sometimes unfortunately resulted in demonstrations by students, industrial action by staff members, and violence in some cases. We assert that there are proactive and peaceful means of tackling these situations without causing crisis. We have witnessed bitter conflicts; yet the situation has been worse in the past! The issues of this place are multi pronged, and stretch a deep and long history as well as a wide and amorphous extent in our time. Each one of us can name something wrong that you desire changed. The media has published numerous depressing articles that paint a dim and damaging image of an Academic Instution that was once the icon of authentic practical training at the highest level. Now it is time to bring these issues to God in prayer.
In a University with over one thousand staff members and about twenty-four thousand students, the strikes staged by staff and students at different times are an effervescent reaction to disrespect, bickering, corruption and maladministration resulting in service delivery that leaves a lot to be desired. There is a great need for reconciliation. We should recognize that “God … through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.” (2Cor 5:18).
Let us all arise and seek the good of the land through mobilizing one another to peaceful solutions to our standing challenges. Let us also observe this day of prayer for the University and determine to respond to subsequent calls to community worship and prayer, in order to invoke the healing hand of God in obidience to His Word.
God bless you!