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Fr. Mbaka: A Pesky Fly On the Scrotum of the Nigerian Church, By Osmund Agbo Father Mbaka is one controversial and highly divisive figure. A Ghanaian proverb teaches us how to handle a fly that perches on the scrotum.. a huge dose of patience and tact is needed to gently nudge off the incommodious creature. But as long as the Catholic hierarchy remains conflicted in solving the Mbaka problem, however, the Nigerian church will live with the sad reality that he who goes to sleep with an itchy anus will be sure to wake up with smelly fingers. The Catholic Church, with more than 2000 years of history under its belt, has been called the oldest institution in the Western world. It has successfully fought and won many wars, internal and external, in a bid to keep her 1.2 billion faithful from drifting in a constantly changing world. At no time, however, did it reckon that the 21st century Nigerian church will be home to celebrity priests with mega-fortunes, whose clout will t ....