Mandate to Mend and to Marry

Bello Abubakar had been sought for his ability to cure, and his reputation as a healer is surpassed only by the frequency with which God communicates with him. Over the last several decades, he has healed ailments that he sees and simply removes, because of what he claims is the power granted by Allah. Among the many he has healed are women, and he married 86 of them - siring a total of 176 children. Apparently, the power includes a substantial amount of animal magnetism that induces endurance as well. It is a force of healing and breeding that has transformed this former Teacher and Preacher into God's gift to women of Nigeria.

Bello may be a believer in the curative powers of love, and marrying those women whom God told him to heal and wed increases the potency and efficacy of his healing capabilities. But cloning technology may have to be applied to his passion for healing, because with 86 wives, he hardly has time to get dressed - much less heal. Or, he may need equipment similar to an ATM which dispenses his love juice that his wives can withdraw, to continue their lifetime treatment. The dispenser may be molded according to the structure of his endowment.

At 84 years old, most of Bello Abubakar's wives are less than 25% of his age, and a considerable number are younger than his own children. He contends however that no punishment is meted in the Koran for having more than 4 wives, and the boundaries are limited only by one's endurance, endowment and ability. Words spoken like a true love God. Moreover, since Allah specified punishment for fornication and adultery, he is better blessed because he married all of them. A love God of the marrying kind - truly a gift for womanhood.

Despite the absence of George Clooney's charm, Brad Pitt's physique, and Barack Obama's eloquence, Bello's curing skills are attested to and praised by all his wives. Perhaps his healing instrument is as phenomenal as that of Big John Holmes. Convincing all 86 of them is already a spectacular feat in itself, where most men cannot even convince their wives about coming home very late because a commercial jet landed on the freeway. They came with various ailments and all were cured. It is unclear if their ills were from the waist down. To his credit, Bello never left any of them - with 176 kids, it's obvious he always came.

Islamic authorities in Nigeria have been alienated by Bello's family life and have labeled it a cult. Most of his wives stay in an unfinished and fetid house in Bida, others in a house in Lagos. His wives do not work and there is no visible means of feeding such a humongous brood. But one wife said they ask the kids to beg for money, setting a quota for each that would suffice to feed the community daily. Often, it is insufficient. With hardly any time for healing new clients, his income declined, but his libido remains constant. He has already exceeded Jihad's promise of 76 virgins in heaven after death, enjoying heaven on earth while very much alive. Small wonder his wives believe he is next in line from the prophet Muhammad.

Seriously, this is another assault on womens rights and is definitely an injustice to humanity, but none of the wives will ever be convinced that they are being violated. The hunger and lack of education of the mothers and the children would be sufficient grounds to terminate this aberrant situation, but no action could be mounted. Oddly, Bello Abubakar advises all men not to follow his example - not because of the atrocity it creates but because they might collapse from exhaustion. Perhaps it would be ideal for Nigeria's pharmaceutical industry to analyze and recreate what makes him tick and to produce a product that would effectively compete with viagra from his DNA. It could generate more food for his family and provide an income stream greater than Nigeria's oil.

However, Allah willing, none of his sons would have the same healing prowess nor inclination for his tempestuous vocation. If not, heaven help the 69 million women of Nigeria, whose population may increase beyond what the country can possibly absorb.

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Perjury for a Pistol Packing Priest

This eh Italian Catholic ah priest ah, Rev. Joseph Sica eh? I am now ah thinking that he might ah be really ill eh? He is Sica being a priest, and ah Sica being hounded by the polizia eh? Bada Bim, Bada Boom, yeah whatever. Forget ah bout it. :-)

Remember the movie "Sleepers" where Robert de Niro portrays a priest who is asked to perjure himself to save two mob members from a murder charge? The mobsters killed a juvenile prison guard who raped them when they were boys, and Brad Pitt playing the prosecutor, staged managed the trial with the defense attorney played by Dustin Hoffman. Well the case of Rev. Joseph Sica is not as noble, nor does his character come close to the torment de Niro goes through in lying under oath as a priest; and the just but unlawful act of two men whose lives were demolished by the trauma they experienced at the hands of those who had power over them.

The Rev. Joseph Sica told a grand jury that he had no relationship with the casino resort owner, Louis DeNaples, who is being investigated by a grand jury on his ties to organized crime. Rev. Sica also lied about his relationship with Russell Bufalino, an organized crime boss who served long prison terms in the 70s and 80s. In fact, Rev. Sica and DeNaples have been friends for 40 years, and both had very personal ties with Bufalino. Sica had a thousand dollars in his person and a handgun when he was arrested.

As adviser to DeNaples and his casino resort, Rev. Sica must be instilling the virtues of charity to DeNaples so that his small church can get funds for their social projects. The priest must also be preaching the benefits of gambling, and justifying his support; perhaps calling it God's way of "rolling the dice" in the gambler's favor, or betting on a sure way to "get to heaven". The handgun is meant to ward the devils who might be inclined to prevent people from putting their "money on heaven", or from those wayward lower end demons who want to steal a slice of the Church's pot in the casino.

Omerta is much stronger in the blood of Rev.Sica than his adherence to the truth as an ordained Catholic priest. This is definitely mob influence. His casual manner in possessing a thousand dollars (definitely not for purchase of personal toiletries) is another mob characteristic. The apparent ease and ordinariness by which he packs a handgun is also unmistakably a mob influence. He is now well known for wearing a habit. Not a priestly habit, but a gambling habit, a lying habit, and a criminal habit.

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