Alloysius Ikegwuonu, alias ‘Bishop’, has built at least five churches, roads, schools, and even a bank. He has bought cars for parish priests who cannot plead ignorance of his alleged involvement in the drug trade. Bishop got a hint of the drug feud that led to the killings at Ozobulu and left. Those after him killed members of his family, innocent worshippers and wounded many more and the church he built and donated.

This piece was written by Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú. The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of 360Nobs.com.

The Ozobulu Killings is hardly any surprise because the enemies of God and man have long found refuge in the church. It is confounding that a people reported as the most religious also top the list of the most corrupt people on earth. These and many more are obvious contradictions in our sociology that point to the anomalies in our individual and collective lives as a people. Some years ago, Nigerians were cited as the happiest people in the world and among the world’s poorest. How can a people be poor and still be the happiest? How can a nation be the most religious and also one of the most corrupt? The rational explanation lies in our perception of the Christian and Muslim God, as an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) – the God of transactions, the God of give and take.

We grow godless with the same alarming rate as the growth of churches and mosques in every city block in the country. Drug lords, treasury looters, ritualists, armed robbers, murderers and every shade of criminals, fund our religious spaces with tithes and offerings, while poverty and misery continue their astronomical rise. Religion is dead in Nigeria. What is practised and branded as religion in the country is a farce. Our religious spaces are a marketplace of fraud. The killings at Ozobulu once again exposes us as a people with no scruples. An Ozobulu will happen when we have no revulsion at accepting a church built and donated by a known and celebrated drug baron. Ozobulu is what we get when we think the blood of Jesus will cleanse all manners of money, including those obtained by spilling human blood. We are the one of the most corrupt people on earth because religion, as it is practised among us, has lost its bite. Clerics have become co-exploiters of the people. Prosperity preaching has taken control of the pulpits, while radical Islamism with promises of a better heaven is the menu served from the minbar in mosques. In the South, clerics preach to the disillusioned poor that money by all means is king and it is better for their congregants to die trying, while the clerics in the North collaborate with treasury looters, encouraging them to feed crumbs to the poor in the guise alms and charity.

How did we get to this sorry station? We need not look too far, our descent into the moral gorge we have found ourselves is an extension of our rentier mentality. The frontiers of American style pentecostalism has been extended and localised well beyond the boundaries of exploitative capitalism, using religious license aided by unreason. Religious life today is no longer about humanism and salvation, but about material accumulation and financial prosperity. A Nigerian will cheat, exploit his kin, cut corners, scam another and when he makes it through these unwholesome means, he sees it as a prayer answered! Of course, the front rows of the mosque and the pews of the church will be reserved for him as long as he brings fat tithes and offerings. The virtues of character, righteousness, honesty, integrity, sacrifice, tolerance, modesty and moral goodness are no longer preached. When emphasis is on money and pleasure, we cannot expect good outcomes from our places of worship. Unfortunately, we are not a nation of laws.

In a nation full of sacred cows, where there are no consequences for actions, we should expect more Ozobulu to happen. Prosperity preachers will , where there are no consequences for actions, we should expect more Ozobulu to happen. Prosperity preachers will continue to feast on the ignorance and gullibility of their congregants. They will continue to capitalise on their bleak socio-economic conditions to rob them of their faith and money. As long as social injustice, fading social mobility, and limited economic opportunity pervade the Homeland, the poor will continue to buy the gospel of miracles, wealth, power, position and privilege, and pastorpreneurs will keep buying more jets and be counted among the richest.

Evil and criminality is as old as man but the prophets of old confronted the socio-political and economic issues of their time with righteousness and an uprightness that is now very absent. Never did they compromise with evil, regardless of its colourations. God does not strike a bargain with criminals. Criminals who support religion as a way of laundering their moral deficiencies are lying to themselves. Building churches, making huge cash donations and sponsoring people on pilgrimage cannot atone for premeditated crimes against thousands of people.

As for the priests of Baal who squeeze away morality from the gospel, they are more dangerous than the criminals they aid and abet. Material provisions by a criminal cannot serve as the basis for determining faith and devotion to the body of Christ.

The Ozobulu killings is a wake up call to all of us. We must reclaim the values of religion as it was, before the Pentecostal invasion. If we must halt the progression of values decay affecting us, God-fearing religious leaders must call out those who pollute their ranks. Nigeria’s redemption must start from the doorsteps of churches and mosques. May the soul of those killed, find peaceful rest and may their traumatised families have the strength, times like this demand.



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AlwaysUltraPad:
[s]Alloysius Ikegwuonu, alias ‘Bishop’, has built at least five churches, roads, schools, and even a bank. He has bought cars for parish priests who cannot plead ignorance of his alleged involvement in the drug trade. Bishop got a hint of the drug feud that led to the killings at Ozobulu and left. Those after him killed members of his family, innocent worshippers and wounded many more and the church he built and donated.

This piece was written by Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú. The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of 360Nobs.com.

The Ozobulu Killings is hardly any surprise because the enemies of God and man have long found refuge in the church. It is confounding that a people reported as the most religious also top the list of the most corrupt people on earth. These and many more are obvious contradictions in our sociology that point to the anomalies in our individual and collective lives as a people. Some years ago, Nigerians were cited as the happiest people in the world and among the world’s poorest. How can a people be poor and still be the happiest? How can a nation be the most religious and also one of the most corrupt? The rational explanation lies in our perception of the Christian and Muslim God, as an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) – the God of transactions, the God of give and take.

We grow godless with the same alarming rate as the growth of churches and mosques in every city block in the country. Drug lords, treasury looters, ritualists, armed robbers, murderers and every shade of criminals, fund our religious spaces with tithes and offerings, while poverty and misery continue their astronomical rise. Religion is dead in Nigeria. What is practised and branded as religion in the country is a farce. Our religious spaces are a marketplace of fraud. The killings at Ozobulu once again exposes us as a people with no scruples. An Ozobulu will happen when we have no revulsion at accepting a church built and donated by a known and celebrated drug baron. Ozobulu is what we get when we think the blood of Jesus will cleanse all manners of money, including those obtained by spilling human blood. We are the one of the most corrupt people on earth because religion, as it is practised among us, has lost its bite. Clerics have become co-exploiters of the people. Prosperity preaching has taken control of the pulpits, while radical Islamism with promises of a better heaven is the menu served from the minbar in mosques. In the South, clerics preach to the disillusioned poor that money by all means is king and it is better for their congregants to die trying, while the clerics in the North collaborate with treasury looters, encouraging them to feed crumbs to the poor in the guise alms and charity.

How did we get to this sorry station? We need not look too far, our descent into the moral gorge we have found ourselves is an extension of our rentier mentality. The frontiers of American style pentecostalism has been extended and localised well beyond the boundaries of exploitative capitalism, using religious license aided by unreason. Religious life today is no longer about humanism and salvation, but about material accumulation and financial prosperity. A Nigerian will cheat, exploit his kin, cut corners, scam another and when he makes it through these unwholesome means, he sees it as a prayer answered! Of course, the front rows of the mosque and the pews of the church will be reserved for him as long as he brings fat tithes and offerings. The virtues of character, righteousness, honesty, integrity, sacrifice, tolerance, modesty and moral goodness are no longer preached. When emphasis is on money and pleasure, we cannot expect good outcomes from our places of worship. Unfortunately, we are not a nation of laws.

In a nation full of sacred cows, where there are no consequences for actions, we should expect more Ozobulu to happen. Prosperity preachers will , where there are no consequences for actions, we should expect more Ozobulu to happen. Prosperity preachers will continue to feast on the ignorance and gullibility of their congregants. They will continue to capitalise on their bleak socio-economic conditions to rob them of their faith and money. As long as social injustice, fading social mobility, and limited economic opportunity pervade the Homeland, the poor will continue to buy the gospel of miracles, wealth, power, position and privilege, and pastorpreneurs will keep buying more jets and be counted among the richest.

Evil and criminality is as old as man but the prophets of old confronted the socio-political and economic issues of their time with righteousness and an uprightness that is now very absent. Never did they compromise with evil, regardless of its colourations. God does not strike a bargain with criminals. Criminals who support religion as a way of laundering their moral deficiencies are lying to themselves. Building churches, making huge cash donations and sponsoring people on pilgrimage cannot atone for premeditated crimes against thousands of people.

As for the priests of Baal who squeeze away morality from the gospel, they are more dangerous than the criminals they aid and abet. Material provisions by a criminal cannot serve as the basis for determining faith and devotion to the body of Christ.

The Ozobulu killings is a wake up call to all of us. We must reclaim the values of religion as it was, before the Pentecostal invasion. If we must halt the progression of values decay affecting us, God-fearing religious leaders must call out those who pollute their ranks. Nigeria’s redemption must start from the doorsteps of churches and mosques. May the soul of those killed, find peaceful rest and may their traumatised families have the strength, times like this demand.



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Typical Afonja...remove the log in your eyes before focusing on the speck on others' eyes. You leave your Southwest ritual infested region with the highest amount of ritual killings in the world, IN FACT DAILY OCCURRENCE...we counted 5 yesterdsay on Nairaland, instead you are focusing on an event that the facts are yet to be known. Afonja, focus on the ritual killings in your region!

something to chew on ,......and choke to death!!

lionjungle3000:


Typical Afonja...remove the log in your eyes before focusing on the speck on others' eyes. You leave your Southwest ritual infested region with the highest amount of ritual killings in the world, IN FACT DAILY OCCURRENCE...we counted 5 yesterdsay on Nairaland, instead you are focusing on an event that the facts are yet to be known. Afonja, focus on the ritual killings in your region!

did you see him refer to any tribe, he is just saying the truth as it is without any sentiments, why can't you read through the lines and understand the wisdom behind the message rather than attacking the messenger.

our mosque and churches as always been a den of thieves and we turn the blind eye based on our religious sentiments and ethnic divide. this message resonates with every well meaning Nigerian that understands the damage of our money worship and sharp practices to gain an extra naira. more so we tend to pretend like all is well and we are neck deep in poverty.

when would the African people unite, when would we come together and fight tribalism,corruption,nepotism and hate we are but one people, black as we are with heritage as old as the ancient Egypt which was the cradle of modern civilization. sometimes I wonder what is wrong with this generation that they don't seem to get things done we have lost our history and chase shadow, religion can't save us only us can save ourselves

Hmmm...
Strange world...

Very poignant,
I"ve always maintain that the religious leaders and political leaders are in cahort to ensure that Nigeria never develop. The lesser Nigeria develop; the better for the religious and political leaders.

lionjungle3000:


Typical Afonja...remove the log in your eyes before focusing on the speck on others' eyes. You leave your Southwest ritual infested region with the highest amount of ritual killings in the world, IN FACT DAILY OCCURRENCE...we counted 5 yesterdsay on Nairaland, instead you are focusing on an event that the facts are yet to be known. Afonja, focus on the ritual killings in your region!

Typical of a people ever willing to deflect attention from themselves and live in denial.

What is wrong with this opinion piece that seeks a reform across board by all Nigerians of all tribes and religions?

That is why the problem festering in the SouthEast will never abate. The people are without a conscience, yet some wonder why a drug war can be brought to a church as though the worshippers and the culprits have a soul.

2yrs from now you will continue to live in denial claiming the facts of the Ozubulu terror are yet to be known, just to ensure that the drug details are silenced and the drug gladiators are protected.

If I may ask, when exactly will the facts be known? When IPOB finally declares to a mob of zombies that it was a Fulani or boko haram attack?

elderhimself:
something to chew on ,......and choke to death!!

The bitter pill is better than sweet water that would damages your systems.. You groan more than that the truth has been splashed on your face..

Very educative

We must reclaim the values of religion as it was, before the Pentecostal invasion. If we must halt the progression of values decay affecting us, God-fearing religious leaders must call out those who pollute their ranks. Nigeria’s redemption must start from the doorsteps of churches and mosques.

Hahaa! I knew it. This piece was obviously written by a pastor who is actually trying his best to keep his gullible followers in perpetual ignorance.

What values was he talking about? Christianity was built & propagated by fraud.

Yes! You might say - but I've seen lots of miracles performed by G.Os, Prophets & Bishops; Look, all of them were staged.

But you've seen people who had an ailment & the G.O prayed for them in the name of Jesus - and they were healed.

The question is - what kind of ailment? Cancer? H.I.V ? Don't be foolish, use your brain. There are thousands, if not millions of people out there in the hospitals battling cancer & H.I.V; Y are your G.Os & Bishops not going to the hospitals to heal these patients?

Your pastor says I bind this stubborn headache or nausea in the name of Jesus - and the headache disappears. If your pastor had prayed that same prayer in the name of Obatala, Allah, Okadigbo or Oduduwa, he would have simply gotten the same results - because that is how things work in this Universe.

Everything is energy. When you channel your energy into a thing - regardless of whether through the name of Jesus, Satan or Allah, you get results.

Take a spoon, a fork or a shoe; give it a name - (e.g Hector, Lucy, Optimus Prime or any name at all) pour water or palm oil on it, keep it in a corner of your room - and be praying to it every morning & night. In less than a month, you will start getting results because the energy you channel into that stuff will begin to manifest. And If you want to get results faster, shed a blood on that thing (e.g rooster, dove, ram or crocodile) - You will see wonders. This is the reason majority of people do not joke with herbalists or Afrikan traditional practitioners.

Now, think about millions & billions of people all around the world - channeling their energies into the name of “Jesus” or “Allah”? If they have been channeling those energies into common names like “Emeka”, “Bose” or “Abubakar”, same results would be obtainable. This is Y an an ignorant muslim will tell you Allah is the only God because he gets results or a Christian saying Jesus is the only way.

Now, listen to me carefully. Allah, Moses, Jesus, Yahweh are fake. They are neither gods nor messenger of any gods. They were ordinary beings like you & I.

“Yahweh aka (Enlil) or Allah” and his older, half-brother called “Enki aka Lucifer” were aliens (i.e Extraterrestrials) known as the Anunnaki. Their father was “Anu” aka El-Elyon.

Everything you've ever read in the Bible or Quran were cooked up & plagiarized from the “Sumerian Texts & Tablets” written & documented by the Sumerians - Billion of years ago. They were known as the Anunnaki.

The Anunnaki is an ancient Sumerian term which was given to the beings who came down to earth and pro-created (BARA) homo sapiens.

Anunnaki translates as “those who Anu sent from heaven to earth”

They were also called NEPHILIM meaning “To fall down to Earth, to land” ELOHEEM in the bible meaning “These Beings”.

In ashuric/syriac (arabic) they are called Jabaariyn meaning “the mighty ones”

In Aramic (hebrew) Gibborim meaning “The Mighty or Majestic ones”

They are also called NETERU which is an Egyptian term for Anunnaki.

They are an elite race of beings who came from the 8th planet RIZQ in the 19th Galaxy ILLYUWN - originally referred to as heaven known as Elysium, in greek, has 3 suns: Shamash, Utu & Apsu which means a tri-solar system with 38 moons and 19 planets.
 
They travel through this galaxy by way of a planet ship named Nibiru: The Mother ship.

Click on the link below, scroll down and read OBJECTIVELY, all the chapters in this book titled - “Enki Speaks”

www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sitchin/sitchinbooks_enki.htm

In 2005, Amerikan Hollywood wanted to make a movie titled “Anunnaki”. Guess what? It was banned by the Cabal that runs this world.

http://imaginativeworlds.com/forum/showthread.php?22931-1Annunaki-What-Happened-to-the-Anunnaki-Movie

You know Y? Because if the movie was produced & released, everybody in the world will suddenly become wise - and all the churches & mosques will be burnt down - and all religion abolished - and all the Billions of Dollars collected in Tithes, Offerings, Zakats worldwide - flowing like a stream into the pockets of the Cabal that runs the world - will cease.

If you're waiting for the coming of Jesus or Mohammed, I swear by the breath in me, you will die waiting - Odabo!

StOla:


Typical of a people ever willing to deflect attention from themselves and live in denial.

What is wrong with this opinion piece that seeks a reform across board by all Nigerians of all tribes and religions?

That is why the problem festering in the SouthEast will never abate. The people are without a conscience, yet some wonder why a drug war can be brought to a church as though the worshippers and the culprits have a soul.

2yrs from now you will continue to live in denial claiming the facts of the Ozubulu terror are yet to be known, just to ensure that the drug details are silenced and the drug gladiators are protected.

If I may ask, when exactly will the facts be known? When IPOB finally declares to a mob of zombies that it was a Fulani or boko haram attack?

That is the only narrative of the incidence that will suit their completely bigoted minds
Most of them still believe that it was fulani herdsmen that were involved
The more i come to NL, the more i come to the conclusion that education in the SE is in dire need of complete overhaul, or how do one start to explain the mindset of most of these supposedly educated SEasteners on this forum ?

lionjungle3000:


Typical Afonja...remove the log in your eyes before focusing on the speck on others' eyes. You leave your Southwest ritual infested region with the highest amount of ritual killings in the world, IN FACT DAILY OCCURRENCE...we counted 5 yesterdsay on Nairaland, instead you are focusing on an event that the facts are yet to be known. Afonja, focus on the ritual killings in your region!

the ratio of asinines to intellectuals is high in your region, so, you're always expected to reason in a certain way.


As if your people are cursed, you won't even read to get yourself educated- you hate reading just to get fact. All you believe is what elder nnamdi kanu( I'm disappointed) says.

ProWalker:


That is the only narrative of the incidence that will suit their completely bigoted minds
Most of them still believe that it was fulani herdsmen that were involved
The more i come to NL, the more i come to the conclusion that education in the SE is in dire need of complete overhaul, or how do one start to explain the mindset of most of these supposedly educated SEasteners on this forum ?

I just can't understand how they were created. What other set of people reason just the way they do?


Even the uneducated here where I am don't reason the way their educated ones do. They're just programmed to be emotional in most cases and not sensible .


Nnamdi is the one leading them now, it tells you what and who they're .


They want to put this on Fulani just to cry in their usual manner.

after the Hausa vs Yoruba clash at ife,only yorubas were arrested including an oba,they're still unjustly detained till today plus many other problems affecting the yorubas but you hardly see them agitate or discuss their problems rather they would be moving from one igbo thread to another spewing hatred over what is not their concern. a famous sage said that "an unexamined life is not worth living"

Lalasticlala and mynd , so this thread does not have enough boobs and snakes to grace the front-page?

@Swegiedon - I got your messages and I'm sorry for not replying you sooner.

In regard to your question, I say - NEGATIVE!

Zoharariel:
@Swegiedon - I got your messages and I'm sorry for not replying you sooner.

In regard to your question, I say - NEGATIVE!

thanks a bunch comrade.may the irunmoles keep on guiding you

You guys should pls forgive lionjungle3000,

lionjungle3000:


Typical Afonja...remove the log in your eyes before focusing on the speck on others' eyes. You leave your Southwest ritual infested region with the highest amount of ritual killings in the world, IN FACT DAILY OCCURRENCE...we counted 5 yesterdsay on Nairaland, instead you are focusing on an event that the facts are yet to be known. Afonja, focus on the ritual killings in your region!

I guess U av also checked ur maggot and hatred cancer infected life before this blabbing, ur self destruction is imminent if continue like this

StOla:


Typical of a people ever willing to deflect attention from themselves and live in denial.

What is wrong with this opinion piece that seeks a reform across board by all Nigerians of all tribes and religions?

That is why the problem festering in the SouthEast will never abate. The people are without a conscience, yet some wonder why a drug war can be brought to a church as though the worshippers and the culprits have a soul.

2yrs from now you will continue to live in denial claiming the facts of the Ozubulu terror are yet to be known, just to ensure that the drug details are silenced and the drug gladiators are protected.

If I may ask, when exactly will the facts be known? When IPOB finally declares to a mob of zombies that it was a Fulani or boko haram attack?

ProWalker:


That is the only narrative of the incidence that will suit their completely bigoted minds
Most of them still believe that it was fulani herdsmen that were involved
The more i come to NL, the more i come to the conclusion that education in the SE is in dire need of complete overhaul, or how do one start to explain the mindset of most of these supposedly educated SEasteners on this forum ?

AlwaysUltraPad:
the ratio of asinines to intellectuals is high in your region, so, you're always expected to reason in a certain way.


As if your people are cursed, you won't even read to get yourself educated- you hate reading just to get fact. All you believe is what elder nnamdi kanu( I'm disappointed) says.

AlwaysUltraPad:
I just can't understand how they were created. What other set of people reason just the way they do?


Even the uneducated here where I am don't reason the way their educated ones do. They're just programmed to be emotional in most cases and not sensible .


Nnamdi is the one leading them now, it tells you what and who they're .


They want to put this on Fulani just to cry in their usual manner.

AlwaysUltraPad:
the ratio of asinines to intellectuals is high in your region, so, you're always expected to reason in a certain way.


As if your people are cursed, you won't even read to get yourself educated- you hate reading just to get fact. All you believe is what elder nnamdi kanu( I'm disappointed) says.

just look @them! Lionjungle3000 may have been a bit rash buh isnt it funny to see how you all are convulsing,mouthfoaming and unleashing your bottled-up hatred for the east,including the op! What rights do you think yall have to be making disgusting conclusions over a ppl generally?
we cannot completely blame lionjungle,afterall we all know folks like tinubu,who is more or less a tin god worshipped in the west, has got a drug case hanging on his head somehow,someway and equally is guilty of what the writer post of the 'alleged' drugger,bishop. But as mgbadike81 asserted,'they' are more keen in the affairs of igbos..hence we have a thread "Igbos are not real Jews" by Oduduadefender! And "Why is Igbo supporting a Jew than the christian elder" by Basic123!

Well,whats bad is bad..the house of God should not be dragged into the naija mess and the mess of her citizens. Who are we to judge?
If this thread gets derailed further,you guys are responsible,including the op with a fixated mindset.

why are afonjas like this,the last time i checked,baddoo shrine was busted in their region but they won't talk about it,but they discuss everything that happened in the east as if they were there