A retired Nigerian pastor, Wale Adenuga, has taken to social media to mourn the devastating demise of the medical doctor, Vwaere Diaso, who passed away recently.
Vwaere, who was set to conclude her housemanship in two weeks, died in an elevator accident at the General Hospital, Odan in Lagos state on Tuesday, August 1.
Speaking on her death, Adenuga expressed sadness over the tragedy, and recounted how his pastor friend once told him that many people who die in Nigeria were not killed by God or the devil, including Vwaere.
According to him, she died because of the hospital’s negligence and silence on the part of the people to enforce change.
He stressed that long life sometimes isn’t a function of prayers, but how how well a society runs, citing the Japenese who live longer than Christians despite not believing in Jesus.
Read his full post below,
“A senior friend of mine who’s a very popular pastor in Nigeria once told me this: many people who die in Nigeria were not killed by God nor the devil. It’s true. And that’s what we have in the case of Dr. Diaso who died in that elevator crash.
An avoidable death because the maintenance didn’t do what they were supposed to do. But not only that; it happened because we all looked on and didn’t speak up and follow through. If we followed through, there would have been an insistence on deactivating that lift.
Let’s imbibe a culture of speaking up and following through when we see wrong things happening. We need to move from just sharing testimonies of how God saved us while others perished.
I used to teach my congregants when I was a pastor that long life sometimes isn’t a function of prayers. It’s sometimes a function of how well a society runs. It’s why the Japanese who doesn’t believe in Jesus lives up to 90 and those of us rolling on altars die at 54.
Speak up when the wrong dimension is used for reinforcement rods in a building construction. Because verily verily, Jesus won’t stop the building from coming down. When you see evil, speak up. And please don’t use that worn out phrase; AND GOD WILL HELP US, because sometimes He won’t.
And lastly, to the statement that this might be a result of an arrow fired; I would say our silence and negligence produced the arrow that was shot.”
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