A Cleric, Prophet Joseph Ologbonyo has frowned at the sharp decline in societal values, urging Nigerian youths to shun ‘get-rich-quick’ mentality.
Ologbonyo, who is the planter, Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) BOANERGES Worldwide, lamented that the rate at which youths chase illicit wealth has became a concern, stressing that there is an urgent need for moral rebirth.
Speaking with journalists in Ise-Ekiti, the cleric cautioned Nigerian youths to shun all acts of desperation towards making money.
According to him, “life is a process but youths have been jumping the process that’s why we have many mentally derailed persons”.
He said, “We have some small girls who have formed association of hookups, they will be offering their body to their fathers’ mates for money.
“We are not in the countries of the whites. Over there, they have been teaching them from primary that a man can decide not to be a man anymore and vice versa. A man can marry his fellow man, a woman can marry her fellow woman.”
The clergy, who spoke about his experience with a former member of his church, said, “I prayed for someone here few years ago and he went to Malaysia. Within three months, he said he wanted to come home and greet me and he wanted to bring a car home, asking me what he should get for me.
“I asked him where he got the money from because he told me he was going to school. I told him to get a small camera and he bought it, added money and brought them to me.
“He showed me the car he just bought and I asked him about the job he was doing. I told him if he didn’t tell me the kind of work he is doing, we will not pray. He didn’t tell me and I said God told me it’s blood money and I will not collect it from you.
“I told his mother to make him sell the car and distribute the money for the needy and go back to work genuinely. I become an enemy of many youths in this town because of it.
“That is why people who are contended don’t usually have problem but some people die along the line while pursuing their personal quests.
“That is what the youths are doing too now, going for money ritual, all sorts of things that are diabolical.
“I said it where I was preaching earlier today that we have destroyed our value system. Parents should scold their kids if they want to exit the house with cloths that expose their body and propel them to change it.
“Men are now piercing nose, ears; they are making artificial teeth and we are not talking. He will leave house with trousers torn at every parts and they call it crazy jeans which means he is crazy.
“A boy of 16 or 17 years old will come home with a car and they will still bring it to the church for thanksgiving. We are supposed to ask him where he got money to buy that kind of car.”
Cleric warns against ‘get-rich-quick’ syndrome, laments decline in societal values