About a week ago, the Ghana Inspector General of police, Mr George Acuff Dampare issued a warning to religious leaders and citizens to stop sharing “false or misleading prophesies or go to jail fir nine years”. This story is not those takes by moonlight. Nobody is against prophecies or freedom of worship but when religious leaders and groups are not measured in their utterances, more so how they transmit prophecies, one is bound to be apprehensive and alarmed.
As a people, we have grown used to the ritual of strong and piercing prophecies, usually of doom, every New Year’s Eve. But, wait a minute, have Nigerians not developed the alarming appetite for prophecies by commercial religious folks. The frenzy that follows a so called prediction of a man of God leaves many Nigerians hysterical and alarmed.
Relationships have put asunder and many others have named witches and wizards. The fear is that Nigerian politicians who are customers of powerful men of God would develop cold feet when it comes to regulating and controlling these doomsdayers and marabouts who are regarded as God send.
