When you increase the price of goods, when you increase transport fares you are shutting out the less privileged people from participating in the joy that Christmas brings, he said. He advised that Christmas should be celebrated in its true spirit of joy, love and caring instead of consumerism and commercialism that has continued to distort the real import of Christmas.
Ugorji therefore, called for a change of attitude in the way Christmas is celebrated, saying a thought should be spared for the less privileged in the society that are in dire need of food, clothing love and care.