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We Need the Devil, By Dan Agbese

Dan Agbese
Dan Agbese

In case you missed the story, here it is. The secretary to the Anambra State government, Professor Solo Chukwubelu, publicly admitted late last week that there are evil spirits in the state government house. It is not necessary to wonder what one could make of this.

Coming from a professor, it must be true, if disappointing in the 21st century, easily the most advanced with a comfortable distance between it and reason beclouding superstition. Professors do not talk about what they cannot defend with empirical proof. I just hope the professor does not feel compelled to call a press conference to show the world some of the evil spirits caged in the government house. But it would have been nice to see what evil spirits actually look like – in chains.

People with valid claims on civilisation must have been put off by this whole primitive talk of evil spirits finding a home in the Anambra State seat of political and economic power because they believe, not without good reasons, that with the dark ages in human history behind us, superstition had had its dark days and yielded place to the age of knowledge and enlightenment. That in this enlightened age of science and technology in which man has conquered most of his fears of the unknown, we still speak of evil spirits tells you the human mind is still ruled by the consuming fears of the unknown.

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