Hon. Obumnaeme Akunyili, the son of late former NAFDAC DG, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has revealed how Nigerian pastors took advantage of her ill-health to milk her dry.
Obumnaeme said that when his mother was diagnosed with stage-4 cancer, she sought help from some of Nigeria’s most popular Christian preachers.
He made the revelation in a chat with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, saying that more than 20 pastors were in her house at one particular time.
According to him, the pastors gave her false hope while subjecting her to what he called “Divine Hustle”.
“I saw the hustle. I feel like, how you tell your friend when there’s a job, I feel when there’s a public figure, all these pastors, their friends are like, ‘there’s this woman that is dying, we need to go and milk that puppy’,” he said.
The Director General at Anambra State Project Monitoring and Management Office said that his mother sowed seeds as the religious leaders assured her of healing.
Obumnaeme added that as a woman of faith, his mother believed them.
“She went to, is it Pastor Adeboye’s place in Lagos for like a week? The whole shebang. She came back and said they need to do a scan that God has healed her. And I remember my father was crying when he was taking her to do the scan. He knew what they would see. And he wasn’t trying to shut it down, he was trying to dampen expectations.
“But my mum, you know how someone is like ‘God has healed me’. And they go and they see the mass of the cancer there, grown larger, and my mum just became a shell for like three days. And you just see someone, a larger-than-life figure just whittling away every day,” he said.
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