“As part of efforts to support the states in the establishment of the isolation and treatment centres, I wish to remind our governors that the Catholic Bishops Conference has volunteered all the 425 hospitals and clinics nationwide for adaptation and use as isolation centres,” he said.
“Governors are encouraged to please approach Catholic Bishops in their states to access these facilities”.
* This is the characteristic of the old compassionate church that we used to know before the invasion of the Christo-disco psychedelic churches that further polluted our airspace with bogus and mostly corruption in workplaces / business turned “edited” testimonies and pre-advertised, pre-paid & post-paid miraculous miracle dispensed by their pastorprenuers in whose image the new churches are cast.
For many years, Catholic hospital, Oluyoro was the second best to UCH in Ibadan , and Catholic hospital, Lantoro Abeokuta was the best in Abeokuta and still the best in the treatment of tuberculosis.
When I was “teacher oko” , T. O. for 3 months in 1980 at African Church, AC Primary School, Kori-Oko, village, near Owode Egba, I saw many primary & secondary schools built by Anglican, Catholic & African churches in many remote villages complementing education programme of government.
No matter how rural the location was, the clergy men in their usual black and white cassock would still come around regularly to oversee the schools and hold sermon and prayer sessions with the pupils.
By this way, thousands of poor farmers’ children had opportunity to be educated at almost no cost and many of them would have become professors, reverend, teachers, doctors and other professionals now useful to themselves and the society beyond religious indoctrination intent of the missionaries.
I still vividly remember my best pupil in primary four then, Tajudeen Sadiku. This cool black handsome son of a very poor farmer never scored below 100 percent in arithmetic and always above 80 percent in English, social study, RK, and Yoruba throughout the time I was their class teacher. The boy came first in a zonal contest.
The same boy, a genius, would still go hunting grasscutter & Okete to complement his parent’s income after school hours. One day Taju and his co-hunter friends brought one big well smoked crasscutter to my village for the enjoyment of “”Tisa wa”. The gift that I washed down with fresh Oguro (Palmwine) was my first benefit as “Teacher Oko” (village teacher)
I hope the boy had not been lost to the backwater of KoriOko and he’s now a big boy professional contributing his quota to help humanity to progress. If not for the missionary school, AC, near his village, Taju wouldn’t have had opportunity to read and write.
But today, we have schools owned by Mr. & Mrs. churches which are too expensive that children of most church members cannot attend, yet their G. O. & Pastors are billionaires cruising the globe in private jets and riding expensive vehicles in the name of posterity evangelism while most of their members wallowed in abject poverty.
Government failed them and their religious leaders have equally failed them.
