1.0.Brief Opening Notes:
Now
and again, it is recounted that some evil men in the society engage in money
ritual. In our dialect, it is taken to be ‘ogwu ego.’ One of the purveyors of
this scaring act is the movie industry. From childhood, a lot of influences and
wrong notions have been ‘forcefully’ impacted on the children and respectively
almost every one of us. Some of these influences we carry on till death. Some
are very difficult to be effaced. Some are corrected by education in form of
enlightenment.
2.0.Its a Pity:
At
childhood, we learn that one should not talk at night lest one be carried away
by the evil spirit. Some would be told not to go to so so river at so so and so
so moment lest the river will turn into blood and many more others. All these
are aimed, inter alia, at controlling certain stubbornness and arrogance in
children. But, it is quite unfortunate as one grows up, these become really
part and parcel of us. Considering the
topic of our examination, it will immediately call to mind, the erroneous
notion we have as it concerns ‘ogwu ego.’ We believe or rather we are meant to
believe that some bad people engage in ‘ogwu ego’ so as to be rich. Such people
are purported to have suffered much but all to no avail. Some of such are said
often time to be lazy ones who do not want to suffer to make money. And so,
most at times, when a poor man popularly known by his people gets rich all of a
sudden, people are bound to tag the source of his richness ‘ogwu ego’
especially those who do not benefit from the cash. Fine, this paper is not
interested in the source of their wealth; rather, it is faced with the
challenge of examining the concept itself.
