After all "quite a few of these 'makwerekwere' have come under the guise of being ministers of the Word only to fleece this country's citizens of their hard earned cash."
The true "tricksters" that they are, they have used aliases, "cooked" figures to avoid paying tax. You can name it. And while at it let us not forget that we only learn about these people from the media and where the media itself has been informed by some officer or through some press release issued by say, the Ministry of Labor and Home Affairs as happened two weeks back. Since we never really get to hear from the accused church ministers themselves - as they either "disappear" upon learning that they are likely to be deported or they are simply declared persona non grata, we have, needless to say, only the version of the government office/officer whose objectivity we cannot vouch for. Now who can blame the reader for believing it when the story of that "trickster who claims to be a pastor" makes headlines in the reader's favorite paper? For, is not the story supported by a statement from a government officer - or even official, therefore greatly credible. No sir, I never talked about anybody beiang untruthful as I am not an authority in that area i.e. I cannot decipher truth from untruth on the basis of what I read only. For what I read has been written by mortal like me. The statements that he/she attributes to some government office have been made by ordinary people with their own perceptions of the world and truth. And talking about truth, one is tempted to philosophize about the relativity of truth. And truth indeed is relative because it is influenced by what we know, or think we know, or want other people to know.
