No part of
the world is good to be hit by a virulent pestilence of this magnitude, much
less Africa, a continent where a clique has intentionally ensured that the
majority are eternally ignorant to enable their easy manipulation and a
continuous monopoly of economic, political, social and religious powers.
Africa is a
continent where those who know are not too keen to let those who are ignorant
to see the light; ignorant is seen as a viable opportunity and an investment
for which the few enlightened are ready to make their maximum benefits; A continent
where physical problems are immediately transformed into spiritual problems to
be capitalized upon by the increasing number of spiritual leaders that have
discovered their El-dorado in the massive ignorance and desperation of the
people.
Don´t be
surprised that before Ebola was officially announced in Sierra Leone, Liberia
and Guinea, only God knows how many people have died trying to be cured with "holy water" made available to them by self acclaimed men of God in the absence
of government response to health challenges in Africa. I don´t want to imagine how
many innocent family members of Ebola victims would have been labeled witches
and wizards and held responsible for the deaths of some Ebola victims before it was considered an epidemic case by the world
health organizations .
The news
now is that some spiritual leaders are alluding that the Ebola disease is a
punishment from God on the people because of his anger for their growing
homosexual tendencies, then again are a very large sector of the people who are
continuously in doubt and in denial, thinking and saying that the Ebola disease
is not real or that it is affecting some people because of a particular reason
and that it would never affect them because of a particular reason. I remember once
asking a Nigerian girl who was working as a sex worker if she used any kind of
protection to avoid being infected with any kind of venereal disease, especially
HIV/AIDS, she told me that she had some kind of voodoo marked on her before she
came to Europe that ensures that any infected customer would not have erection
if he tried to have sex with her, she was so sure of herself and the effectiveness
of the voodoo that all my pleas and advice could not convince her to do
otherwise.
We are not health conscious in Africa, in fact,
I remember that we use to say that an Africa seen in a hospital is almost at
the point of death, this is generally so because of lack of medical control on
the use of medical drugs in Africa, people just prescribe medicines for
themselves without any medical or Pharmaceutical prescriptions and control, and
then again is the issue of fake drugs and the danger that many viruses become
immune to certain drugs because of continuous abuse of the drugs even when the
need does not arise.
Another very worrisome issue is the issue of hygiene,
a lot of our people are not too keen about their personal hygiene, even the government does
not consider it an important issue, people could live side by side with dung,
stagnant water and even stagnate sewage and nobody cares, the market where fresh
foodstuffs are sold are not especially clean as should be the case. How often
do we wash our hands in Africa? These are very important measures to curb the
spread of infectious diseases such as this.
I just hope
that those multinational pharmaceutical companies who have the cure begin to
make it available to us before a real catastrophe befalls us in Africa, because
I do not see us capable of controlling this imminent calamity. I know that some
unscrupulous persons and institutions, local and international, will make
wanton gains from Africa on this issue, but whatever be the consequence someone
should please just save my people before we all perish in our ignorance. News reaching
me already have it that people are beginning to take their baths with salty
waters which they say is a preventive measure against Ebola, if something is
not done immediately other seasonings will follow suit, help, before there are
no more salt to add to any soup in Africa or before the price of salt begins to
compete with the price of petrol, gold and diamond.
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