FEATURE ARTICLE

Thursday, March 26, 2020
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Arizona, USA
COVID-19: A TALE OF TWO "PASTORS" IN NIGERIA

"Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth." -- William Hazlitt

astor A is an enlivening charismatic old pastor. He was even telling his gullible followers that "God" told him that Coronavirus was coming in January 2020 but he said, he was careful not to reveal it because he might be picked up by Interpol if he had told the world. He said, he carefully muted his voice for Coronavirus!

And the gullible followers shouted Hallelujah in his vast synagogue!

Pastor B is a young marketing pastorneur. In his stunted members' sanctuary, he told his flock that Coronavirus can never come to Nigeria. He said: "What do you mean by Coronavirus when there is a corrosive anointing.....?"

And pastor B's gullible followers shouted with resounding Hallelujah in his God's vineyard!

Omod� o mo m�m� oo �n p� l�fo! (A child doesn't know the potency of stinging leave, he calls it edible leave)!

This writer says: "if you know you know!" Coronavirus is a leveler, he has no respect for deception, religious fraud, abracadabra, blasphemy, and (ir)responsible behavior! COVID-19 cares less for the best in us; the good, the bad, the godly and ungodly! COVID-19 treats everyone badly and equally!

In America as of the moment, more than 50,000 cases have been confirmed! More than 800 deaths have been recorded! The numbers are surging and growing exponentially. In defiance of national directives, our "men of God" in Nigeria commanded their sheep to disobey universal "social distancing" and temporary "stay-at-home" precautions. These "men of God" defiantly coagulated their followers in their synagogues to challenge the spread of the merciless virus ravaging the world. Rational precautions are known to have worked in serious countries that value human lives with no religious dogmatism!

Nigeria and its teeming population are in a self-induced quandary. An unserious country with no moral and medical care for its people are being exposed to Coronavirus by its "men of God!" with no ounce of conscientization! When are our people going to get it right in Nigeria? A million-dollar question that may never be answered, not even sooner!

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