Fr. Mbaka’s transfer: Adoration members spit fire

Members of Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria (AMEN), under the aegis of Concerned Adorers and Igbos in Diaspora (CAID), have warned that people should stop making fuss over the transfer of their spiritual director, Rev. Fr. Camillus Ejike Mbaka.

The members reacted to comments by Nigerians, most of them clerics in a publication by Sunday Sun en­titled: ‘Fr. Mbaka under fire,’ where they condemned the outburst of the fiery Catholic priest that he was going to suffer as he left his old parish to a new one.

Members said nobody was talking about some priests in the diocese who were unable to comply with the Bishop’s directive on the deadline to move them to new stations and wondered why everybody took on Fr. Mbaka, “with some calling on him to submit to his Bishop even when he had fully and joyfully complied with the directive within the specified time.”

Adoration members also pointed out that Fr. Mbaka’s statement that he was going to suffer which “elicited much attention by his critics as unnecessary.”

“The statement was just a few words that were given media hype by his critics out of the many things he said to the worshippers during the handover to his successor”.

They queried that, given the assets of the ministry, which Fr. Mbaka was forced to pack out from the GRA parish without any preparation on how they would be preserved, was it not obvious that he was going to suffer?

“Given the fact that thousands of people who flood his parish to wait for his prayers, healing and charity cannot be accommodated comfortably in two large conference rooms in the parish duplex at GRA and now with the trans­fer, he is going to reside in a cubicle being his share of the house at Our Lady of Rosary Parish which he will be occu­pying with two other priests, is this not enough suffering?

“Is it not excruciating, seeing not less than 80 salaried workers under Fr Mbaka’s employment at Christ the King Parish GRA, parish shedding tears of losing their job in this era of unemployment, on account of his transfer from the parish?” they further argued.