The Reverend Dr. Mvume Dandala, General Secretary of the Kenyan-based All-Africa Conference of Churches, on Tuesday said the Church was well positioned to fight economic injustices and aid malaise, which militate against development.
He said the Church was strengthening its structures to serve as buffer to contribute to and critique national budgets.
"The Church is shelving its orthodox missionary status to becoming allies in economic development in the new world, playing advocacy in tracking promises of multinationals and demand accountability," he said.
Rev. Dandala was interacting with journalists at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra.
He said the Church would no longer stand aloof and watch these multinationals and their cohorts deploy global structures to siphon off resources of Africa with impunity.
The General Secretary asserted that for every dollar given as aid, a match up of seven dollars was taken away as profits, depicting the inequality and imbalances that existed between the North and South.
Rev. Dandala described the phenomenon as immoral and unethical, stating that the unjust brain-drain situation was another disregard for human rights.
He therefore called for explicit display of human rights, gender equality, environmental sustenance and community participation as enshrined in the pillars of the Paris Declaration, to give it a human face, when the conference re-assembles in 2011.