The President/Founder of Greg Ikaba Ngaji Foundation (GINF), Chief Jude Ogbeche Ngaji has said that christian pilgrimage is a rewarding experience, worth embarking on and highly recommended to all Christians. He made this disclosure in his residence in Calabar while receiving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chapter Chairmen from Cross River North he sponsored who just returned from the holy land.
He stated that because of the importance of pilgrimage to Christians he would personally sponsor people to go on pilgrimage every year, emphasizing that he will ensure that every Christian from CR-North should be helped to go on pilgrimage at least once in a life time.
"The pilgrimage is a very important religious journey aimed at enlightening the people with a lot of value addition. Pilgrimage is part and parcel of enlightening the people and we believe that these pilgrimages are very important; they enhance good morals, strengthens spirituality and helps to open new windows of possibilities", he further added.
Speaking on behalf of the Chapter Chairmen, the Bekwara Chapter Chairman Odama Thomas Odama JP appreciated the gesture of Chief Jude Ngaji while reiterating that foreign travels is a way of education and exposure to the world. Odama said that the level of innovations of the Israeli people is something that would provoke any right thinking person because they have carved a niche for themselves in so many areas of human endeavors. He further applauded the president of the foundation on the sponsorship of the pilgrimage and presented to him with a gift of the statute of the blessed virgin Mary
In the same vein, the Chapter Chairman of Obudu LGA, Comrade Dennis Nchor JP said that any society that has good men like Jude Ngaji will be a better society because when most men prefer sending people to go and dance abroad, they were sponsored by Jude to the holy land for prayers, spirituality and sanctification. According to him: “we believe that our people should go to Israel and come back with a developmental strong agenda to refocus and strengthen their spiritual mentality.
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