(By Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu) - First time
I encountered jaw-dropping conspiracy theory was during the much-touted news of
ECOWAS working to soon introduce a regional currency, the Eco.
"It's
what the Bible warned concerning the End-times. That the devil will rule the
world with a single currency. Look at Euro in the Eurozone. It's all coming
together," said a banker-friend who had an MBA. I was still seeking
university admission. He had been drawn to what he called my "superb
intellect", seeing the kind of books he often
saw me reading. I was then obsessed with Karl Marx, Hegel, and Plato.
"Don't
let your little intellect deceive you into arguing about spiritual
matters." That was his retort to my argument that the proposed Eco had
nothing to do with some unitary satanic government. My intellect had dwindled.
One thing
though: the Satan guy isn't perhaps as clever as we thought, seeing as he let
West-African leaders kill that Eco dream. He is now busy attending village
witchcraft meetings rather than strengthening a shambolic Eurozone crucial to
his future government.
