Nigerians have reacted after a cathedral in London held a memorial service for its celebrity cat named Doorkins Magnificat that recently died, 12 years after strolling into the church premises as a stray cat.

It was learnt that during her twelve year stay in Southwark Cathedral, the cat reached celebrity status: meeting the Queen, starring in a children’s book and having her own social media accounts.

See funny tweets below:

@S life “If na Nigeria pastor there will conduct 12 days midnight prayer......to chase am away......don't know who declared cat a witch in Nigeria

@Mikki “If this gesture is towards human, I would have called it the height of humanity, but now that it is towards a cat, what will I call this gesture?

@Anonymous “Give it to African pastors there will be casting and binding for that car

@Mr 47 “Trust my Nigerian pastors especially one Bishop to declare the cat a witch and next thing is a live TV testimony on how God gave him the power to defeat the cat. They may even go a little further by saying the cat shapeshift into one old woman.

@Silvola “ARE THESE PEOPLE OK? JUST ASKING.

@doristel chommy “U will call it catinity

@Anonymous “If it were in Africa that church would have termed Church of Witches and Wizards

@Femi “Them don chop belle full. Yes it could be a witch in Nigeria or Africa. It's possible.

@Anonymous “Witchcraft Churches, For all you know, that cat might be representing a powerful demonic spirit resident in that church which has made them departed from the simplicity of the Gospel. People can live and die in such places and not know the reason for which Jesus died. If you cannot Textualize a Practice in a Church, It is not the Church of Jesus Christ, It is the devils congregation. there are many of such places in Nigeria where the Bible has been thrown away and what is just left is socializing

@adams marshel “@Anonymous you are big time moron. i know idiot like you will still come on here and say trash.

@Bree “For cat???

@Okafor Chinelo “...🙄🙄🙄

@Anonymous “Oyibo people have entered another level. Some, not all. You can still go to places in Eastern Europe/Russia where this would be considered the height of madness. But cats have always held a special place in their culture so I'm not surprised. Anyone who ever read 'Puss in Boots' will understand

@Anonymous “This is a society that respect all life. Not like us that do not value life. We have no respect for anything we display graphic pictures of dead bodies on blogs to get traffic. Oyinbo don't cry or wail like we do when people dies. But we wail we scream but do we really love people,? I doubt it we that bought a lot of food from the circulation and lock it up thereby creating artificial scarcity and making innocent people surfer hunger. We need to learn from all this story. There is witches in uk oh yes, but has been defeated by structures put in place by the government, you don't need to be a university graduate to be someone here. Most artisan are richer than office workers. But in Nigeria once village people stop your education, you think they are powerful because the structure of our country make the witches powerful.

@Anonymous “Onweghi ihe nmadu na agahi anu.