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You may not understand what inimitable Fela Anikulapo’s early days of Koola Lobitos’ ballistics-sounding song, with the refrain, Alujanjan kijan, was about until you hear the full anecdote. It goes thus: A very debilitating drought had seized the village inhabited by Tortoise, that figurative animal with huge cunning. Hungry and despised, he one day met the dog, known in Yoruba as aja, who offered to help him.
Granted that religion is a volatile subject, especially in these climes where God is all we have, we shouldn’t compound our problem with incendiary, self-serving narratives. The CAMA law may not be perfect, but there is need for such a law. Several Nigerian churches have run foul of CAMA-type law in Europe in the past. They ran back home to take advantage of our ‘anything goes’ atmosphere.
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