Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana
(SAN) condemned the rate of poverty and unemployment in the country, despite
the existence of billionaire Christian leaders.
Falana at the ongoing Lagos Book
and Arts Festival (LABAF) holding in Freedom Park, Lagos, took a swipe at
Nigerian pastors, accusing them of milking their congregants.
The legal luminary wondered how
most of them lived in so much affluence but failed to give back to the society.
He also mocked General Overseer
of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, for saying RCCG will
have as many branches as possible.
Falana lambasted Adeboye and
other clerics who prefer to increase branches, instead of focusing on other
institutions like schools and hospitals.
His words: “Most of the richest
pastors in the world are from Nigeria, yet our people are getting poorer.
“If many of us had not attended
mission schools built by the Catholics and the Anglicans…but what are we
building now? What are our churches giving us?
“They are promising to build
churches in every street. All the warehouses in Apapa built by Awolowo have all
become churches and business centres.”
Recall that Cardinal Anthony
Olubunmi Okogie recently criticised Adeboye’s comment, stating that there
is no Godliness in increasing church branches.
“I heard that one of my
colleagues, (Pastor Enoch) Adeboye, said that he would love to build churches
everywhere so as to make it easy for worshippers to walk to them.
“But for me, that is a useless
statement. How can you say you will build churches everywhere? What kind of
churches are you talking about?
“Look at traffic in Lagos for
example, and those who are pastors are traders and a good number of them are
business men. Such churches in most cases are more like business houses!
“Look at the number of churches
springing up in Lagos. If the Muslims start building mosques like that, does it
show that Nigeria is a religious country?”
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ReplyDeleteMay be wen pple of ur Status(Falana) speaks to their hearings, they wil listen. The once upon a time gullibles are now waking up! Like Matosky jst sed.
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