Popular Nigerian director and actor, Ugezu J. Ugezu has advised Africans to seek medical treatment when they are sick rather than resorting to pastors, prophets and spiritualists for divine healing.
In his view, there is no miraculous or divine cure for any illness hence, purchasing ‘holy water’, ‘anointed oil or handkerchief’ from clergymen or spiritualists with the believe that one will be healed through such products is not just waste of money but an endangerment of one’s life.
Mr. Ugezu said clergymen known for selling those products to their followers, dying at younger ages is evidence that such products have no divine healing powers as they are made to believe.
For him, pastors, prophets and spiritualists are taking advantage of people’s gullibility and blindness for religion to exploit them and thus, his advice to ensure that people do not continue falling victims to such dubious activities.
“A quick one for those still with their senses. When you are sick, seek medical help. If holy water, oil or anointed handkerchief can heal the sick, the clergy who anointed and sold them to you would not have died young. One Love!” he wrote on social media.
Ugezu J. Ugezu’s advice comes at the back of the death of popularly Nigerian televangelist, Prophet T.B Joshua.
- Joshua who is the founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) died on June 5, 2021 about 6 days to his 58th birthday.
While he was alive, he reportedly performed numerous miracles, healed many members of his church with his stickers and ‘holy’ liquid and had many of his prophesies come to pass with sick people travelling from different parts of the world to seek divine healing from him.
But reports say he was flown to turkey where he sought medical treatment before his death. He is said to have suffered from stroke and had to be airlifted with an air ambulance from Nigerian to Turkey for medical care.
He, however, died two months upon his return to Africa.
