As Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Associate Priest in charge of St.
Donald’s Catholic Church, Karu, Rev. Fr. Roland Ter Awuhe, has charged Christian never to give up on truth and justice.
Speaking during Easter Sunday Mass on the theme “We shall overcome,” Fr. Awuhe said the Easter story is that of the vindication of Jesus Christ over falsehood, injustice and evil.
According to him, Christ’s resurrection “is totally awesome because the story of Good Friday was that of betrayal, unbridled violence against and innocence.
” “It is a representation of how humanity treats its kind, man’s inhumanity to man.
If that was all there is to the story then there will be no need to worship God but it is not the end of the story.
Death is not the end of the story. “After death there is resurrection.
Jesus rose in glory and majesty. The Easter story is that Jesus is vindicated.
So, indeed, we can ask death: where is thy sting? Today we can sing Alleluia because our faith in Christ is deeply seethed, truth has triumphed over falsehood, justice has triumphed over injustice, and goodness has triumphed over evil.
“Truth is immortal.
Though we can suppress, condemn, kill and bury it, like the Pharisees and the Jews did, we must remember that on the third day the truth rose from the dead.
” Continuing, he said: “Do not give up on the truth, do not give up on justice, do not give up on doing what is right because the truth will always be the truth, what is just will always be just and what is right will always be right.
Believe in the sun even when it is not rising, knowing that no matter how long it lasts the sun will shine again.
“Today, Jesus invites us to rejoice and be glad even when we are going through difficult times, even when we are facing injustice, even when the enemy seems to be winning or seems to have won the battle.
Rejoice and be glad because Christ has already won the victory and his victory is our victory
Relocate from road corridors or face demolition, director warns
Director, FCT Department of Development Control, Muktar Galadima, has warned residents not to encroach on road corridors, even as he warned those who had already put illegal structures on all road corridors across the Territory to relocate or have them demolished.
He gave the warning recently while leading the Department’s personnel in the demolition of illegal structures within the Territory, in where an estate under construction in Kukwaba built on road corridors on Lokogoma road were brought down by a bulldozer with great effi ciency.
Commenting on the partially demolished mixed use Sally Dram Estate, located by an AEDC injection sub-station in Kukwaba, near House on the Rock Church, on the Airport road, the Director explained that the developer was given approval for the construction of about 24 units of three-bedroom duplexes, but decided to add nine units.
Similarly, extension of shops in front of, and illegal attachments to Faith Plaza and Vatan Plaza, as well as, a park and a church on Lokogoma expressway were all demolished.
On why the Department was carrying out the execrcise when expansion of particularly the Lokogoma road had not yet commenced, the Director explained that it became necessary in order to “avoid issues of relocation and compensation.
” It was gathered that in cases where illegal structures were allowed to stay under compassionate grounds, developers and owners of such illegal developments would later mobilise and sue the FCT Administration, demanding to be resettled and compensated whenever it was time for development.
Decrying the fragrant violation of the development control approvals, Galadima said the era of impunity was over, even as he advised residents to always adhere strictly to development control guidelines, in order to avoid having their structures pulled down.
The director in charge of developments in the Territory further said the Administration would not relent in its efforts to maintain the Abuja Master Plan, even if it meant to demolish more, adding that demolition was the last thing after every other action failed.
