The Cargo Cult

by Godwin Otuno
by Godwin Otuno

Virtually every religion ever designed by man worships a god whose function is to deliver some sort of cargo. The god of man’s making exist to serve men. He is only good for what he is able to provide. If or when he fails to provide then he is no longer their god…

Recently, a mound of evidence emerged of dumb Dame Patience Jonathan’s ugly descent into gratuitous attack on Reuben Abati over his arse-kissing type of image laundering. The unspeakably powerful wife of the president is not a woman who respects piety, formality of language and the incomparable intellectual chasm between her and Reuben Abati…

When the news first hit town a few months back that the Federal Government under the leadership of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has a plan to  soon roll out an indigenous special  bread for the mass population of hungry Nigerians, the first thought that raced through my curious mind was that of bewilderment…