Instead of asking why Synagogue happened and demanding answers, we resign to fate or cringe in fear that preventable disaster could either be “divine punishment” for our sins or Satan’s war on the saints. How TB Joshua could have described the dead as “martyrs and God’s generals” when his church reportedly blocked initial rescue efforts beats me. But what cofounds even more is that he has not once been called in for questioning about how the worst building collapse in the last 20 years happened in his church. May be the police think it would be a sin against God to question the pastor, just the same way town planning authorities in Lagos might have thought it a “heresy” to stop the church from building more than the two storeys approved. Politics spoils everything. As election draws near religious leaders have become major recruiters for politicians. The church and mosque have become campaign grounds. Whatever may be the outcome of the Lagos probe, Governor Babatunde Fashola, a Muslim, would be in no less a quandary repossessing the church site, for example, than would President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian who is harvesting his Christian base for his reelection in 2015. After the $9.3million cash-for-arms scandal, Synagogue can only worsen the current miserable relationship between Nigeria and South Africa. That’s why Jacob Zuma’s request for a probe might get a talking attention. Nothing more. We stumble from one bad news to another, sweeping things under the carpet as we go. We’ll probably find enough room to accommodate this tragedy without losing sleep. It’s sad but the friends and families of the dead will have to find the courage to move on, without expecting that Synagogue will change the way Nigeria works.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:17:38 +0000
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