A Catholic missionary priest working in Gambia, Fr Kelvin Ugwu, has accused Nigeria’s film trade, Nollywood, of selling the notion of grandmothers as witches.
The cleric additionally claimed that the Africa’s greatest movie trade presumably initiated the idea that people or spirits may simply disappear and seem in any location they need.
Ugwu made the assertion on Wednesday in a publish on his Fb web page.
In accordance with him, Nollywood promoted the concept pastors and prophets are essentially the most highly effective individuals to satisfy after you have any drawback.
His phrases: “The key promoter of the concept of an previous grandmother changing into a witch and flying at evening to eat up her grandchildren is Nollywood.
“The key promoter and presumably the initiator of the idea that people or spirits can simply disappear and seem in any location they need is Nollywood.
“The key promoter of the concept of Owls, Cats, Bats, Wall geckos, and so on being demonic is Nollywood.
“The concept that psychological issues and mad individuals on our streets are individuals who have been used for sacrifices for one goal or the opposite is promoted enormously by Nollywood.
“It’s Nollywood that promoted pastors and prophets as essentially the most highly effective individuals to satisfy after you have any drawback.
“In each film the place there are sacrifices, illness, or depraved grandmothers, there shall be a pastor, prophet, or priest as the ultimate answer.
“If there’s a native physician within the film, be able to see a person of God who will at all times make the native physician flip to different animals earlier than lastly dying.
“This is the reason, it doesn’t matter what I write right here on understanding the place of God and the place of data, numerous you’ll by no means perceive it since you eat these items loads and so they have turn into a part of you. Actually, even the actors/actresses themselves consider in their very own imagined tales.
“This is the reason numerous Nollywood actors who have been sick have been taken to Mr Abido Shaker for therapeutic solely to find that the Abido Shaker energy was not launched.”
