(By Nk'iru. Njoku) - So the governor of Zamfara allegedly made the boo-boo of stating
that the recent outbreak of Meningitis in Zamfara area was an act of God - a
punishment for sin.
The Nigerian arm of the internet has been thrown into an angry
frenzy. Everybody is casting stones at this governor and I'm shaking my head. I
mean, I do get the uproar.
But is this not the same country where every goddamn thing has a
religious angle even when it has zilch to do with your God(s) and everything to
do with your simple refusal to apply COMMON SENSE?
When you people hold prayer sessions in your offices before you
start work for the day, what do you think you are doing?
I'll tell you.
You're saying 'I might be a professional, but my job is not
really mine to do. If I fuck up, it's how God wants it to happen, after all
I've prayed'.
When a person has a disability that has no cure but can only be
managed, and you 'block your head' with the fancy words of your pastor and you
then tell said person with disability to get a miracle from your pastor, you
tell them you're sure they don't have faith and that's why they haven't been
healed, what do you think you are doing?
When you as a technician are doing a technical job and you are
asked what your timelines are and you say 'by God's grace we will finish on so
and so day', what do you think you are doing?
When a pastor went online and connected mental illness to sin,
and some of you foolishly defended that nonsense, WHAT THE HELL did you really
think you were doing?
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Every single day, some of you justify outrageous things with
portions of your religious texts that belong in no place else than the dustbin.
You even justify rape by touting 'ungodly' dressing as a cogent
explanation for why a person has been raped.
And there are even those amongst you who prescribe what's that
film? Fuck fuck fuck... prayer room? War room!!
You prescribe War Room as the answer to all the marital problems
possible.
Your husband doesn't like sleeping on that side of the bed, he wants
to claim your position by the wall? War room!
Your husband slept with his sister, your sister, your
refrigerator, and he rapes your daughters? Aww my sister, God hates divorce.
So, War Room!
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Some of you have your relatives dying, you have the money to
seek medical care, but you DO NOT.
Instead you take them to church and have a
saliva-spitting-in-rapid-speech, shifty-eyed, colorful blazer wearing, thieving
idiot chant uselessness over your loved ones, collect your money from you, and
send you lot off with a disgusting smile of satisfied avarice.
You do this! Yes you! You sacrifice your common sense all the
damn time on the alter of religion. Wasting human life! Watching people die
avoidable deaths! All the damn time!
But look at you now. Outraged. Intellectually offended.
Come on shut up, and sit down. You are cut from the same cloth
as anyone who believes that meningitis is a punishment from God. If I could see
into your minds now, I'm sure there are those of you who agree with such a
postulation sef. But you're here pretending.
No? Ah, then why do you for instance quote 2 Chronicles 7:14
whenever solutions to Nigeria's problems are being discussed?
"...if my people which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin, and WILL
HEAL THEIR LAND..."
Why is this a solution to national problems caused by long-term,
grand-scale corruption on all levels?
WHY DO YOU TOUT PRAYER AS THE KEY TO NATIONAL PROBLEMS WHICH
REQUIRE COMMON SENSE AND DECENCY TO FIX?
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So please all of you, calm down. Read the last post I shared,
written by Obinna Aligwekwe.
He's a doctor and he gave some tips per handling meningitis in these parts.
Please arm yourself with useful information and stop shouting
useless shout. All of una na kuku the same thing.
Have a good morning.
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