Let's Stretch Adeboye's Logic Further

Enoch Adeboye recently added his voice to the deluge of persons calling on "intending brides never to marry jobless men"...as if joblessness is a static and not a dynamic entity .

My grouse with such declarations dovetailing into blanket counsel and admonitions to young impressionable spinsters would not have been so severe if this pastor had rather scared his female wards off "unemployable" men or visionless men...for afterall, you need money...and regular income...to run a family.

Yet, joblessness in a man may not be entirely his fault especially in climes like ours where rulers make only feeble attempts to build infrastructures and institutions to enable latent ideas and latent talents to flourish.

It is equally obvious that our churches would rather have their spiritual heads squirm in obscene opulence rather than allow their humongous tax-free monies to trickle down to their poverty-laden flocks !

Neither had our latter-day churches used their privileged positions to steer our thieving leaders to the narrow path of truth and righteousness ...in real terms...otherwise things need not be this bad !

Now, working from Adeboye's "rule",, would we be right in inferring that all employers of labour must henceforth, offer all available jobs to men only...in situations where both men and women apply for such jobs...except there is no qualified man to fit into such positions ?

For after all, since it is men that are societally required to be financial providers for families, of what use is the employment of women to the exclusion of men...if not to precipitate a breakdown of families ...the building blocks of all societies ...

After all, what woman would bestow respect on a jobless husband ...

Dr Tosin Akindele is a medical practitioner and public affairs analyst .