Thank you very much. I got lost in your narrative. I wasn't sure whether this "truthful" account was yours or that of Rev Fr Chetanna Chukwuneke. On my part I didn't have the full details of the rumours until I read about them above. I agree that an enlightened society should make every effort to prevent and squelch the spread of rumours since the impact could be negative.
However I must distance myself from the statement that "our people have been deprived free medical services by PEOPLE WHO DO NOT LOVE THEM BUT CLAIM THEY DO."
Free medical services of the "military kind" is NOT one of our entitlements flowing from our tenuous citizenship in Nigeria. Our complaints as Ndigbo NEVER included neglect by the military during their regular largesse. The hand that gives is supposed to be on top. We should be offering the northern dominated military help in the area of medicine, not the other way round. And this coming on the heels of a military invasion of the South-East is not only provocative but highly insensitive. If the Army had doctors to spare, it should post them to the north, say Zamfara that has only 23 according to the Hon Minister of Health or perhaps to the Aso Rock Clinic. They may even succeed in grounding Oga-Patapata and prevent another trip abroad.
Free medical services of the "military kind" is NOT one of our entitlements flowing from our tenuous citizenship in Nigeria. Our complaints as Ndigbo NEVER included neglect by the military during their regular largesse. The hand that gives is supposed to be on top. We should be offering the northern dominated military help in the area of medicine, not the other way round. And this coming on the heels of a military invasion of the South-East is not only provocative but highly insensitive. If the Army had doctors to spare, it should post them to the north, say Zamfara that has only 23 according to the Hon Minister of Health or perhaps to the Aso Rock Clinic. They may even succeed in grounding Oga-Patapata and prevent another trip abroad.
Going to throw in their lot towards containing the ongoing Monkey Pox virus outbreak should have come naturally to the new, improved, people oriented Nigerian Army Medical Corps.
The seed for these rumours was planted by the army itself by its scorched earth policy in Igboland designed by President Buhari.
One final thing. Rev Fr Chukwuneke should restrict himself to preaching for us to LOVE OUR ENEMIES following Christ's injunction. But to trust them? Haba fada! That one won't work-o!
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