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 largest movie trade presumably initiated the idea that people or spirits might simply disappear and seem in any location they need.
Ugwu made the assertion on Wednesday in a publish on his Fb web page.
Based on him, Nollywood promoted the concept that pastors and prophets are probably the most highly effective folks to fulfill after you have any drawback.
His phrases: “The most important promoter of the concept of an previous grandmother changing into a witch and flying at night time to eat up her grandchildren is Nollywood.
“The most important 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 most important promoter of the concept of Owls, Cats, Bats, Wall geckos, and so forth being demonic is Nollywood.
“The concept that psychological issues and mad folks on our streets are individuals who have been used for sacrifices for one objective or the opposite is promoted enormously by Nollywood.
“It’s Nollywood that promoted pastors and prophets as probably the most highly effective folks to fulfill after you have any drawback.
“In each film the place there are sacrifices, illness, or depraved grandmothers, there can 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.
“That is why, it doesn’t matter what I write right here on understanding the place of God and the place of data, lots of you’ll by no means perceive it since you eat these items lots and so they have turn out to be a part of you. Actually, even the actors/actresses themselves consider in their very own imagined tales.
“That is why lots of Nollywood actors who had been sick have been taken to Mr Abido Shaker for therapeutic solely to find that the Abido Shaker energy was not launched.”
