The Anglican Bishop on the Niger in Anambra State, The Rt. Revd. Dr. Owen Chiedozie Nwokolo has sent a serious warning to the leadership of Nigeria to decisively step into the worsening starvation strangulating the poor ones presently, before they go into cannibalism to survive.
He said he could see an “inevitable slide of some Nigerians into the practice of cannibalism if the present economic hardships, moral depravity, and chaotic social conditions in the country are not urgently contained.”
He made this known during his sermon beamed live by the Advent Cable Network Nigeria Television ACNNTV at the weekly Calvary Chapel, Bishops court in Onitsha.
He explained that the way things were moving in the country and the untoward manner of responding to the conditions, he said the practice of cannibalism was most probably imminent and inevitable.
Bishop Nwokolo said the general worsening economic and social situations in the country due to the apparent naivety of governments and their plan lessness, had compelled “one to degenerate below some standard of basic ethical and moral values.”
He declared: “We have ignorantly returned to killings, kidnapping and idolatry which our forefathers practiced,” questioning why many communities and their youths were now neck -deep in the said social ills..
He therefore called on the government to endeavor to reverse the current trends in the economic and social travails in the country in order to help checkmate any probable degeneration of the basic moral and ethical values of the people.
However he urged Nigerians to cultivate the spirit of perseverance and anchor their trust on God rather than seeking the means of survival through what he called “the wrong ways”.
