The Bishop of the Anglican Communion, Egba (Abeokuta)
Diocese, Rt. Reverend Emmanuel Adekunle yesterday blamed Nigerian Churches for
what he called alarming rate ritual killings, fraud among youths who are
hellbent on “getting rich at all cost.”
Adekunle who spoke on Friday at the opening ceremony of the
15th Synod of in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, maintained that the Church and
not the government should be blamed.
He argued that the Church’s failure to condemn peoples’
questionable sources of income had given rise to ritual killings and
“diabolical means of acquiring wealth by members of the public, especially
Christians.”
According to him, the Church had failed woefully in
preaching against the evil in the society but instead “Praise singing the
fraudulent members that would donate a big amount of money towards projects in
the Church.”
“We cannot pass the buck of these evil practices to the
government again but they are signs of our failure in the Church, the erosion
of right family virtues and the degradation in the society morals and values, ”
he said.
The Cleric who lamented that, despite the efforts of the
government and the law enforcement agencies in arresting the situation, ritual
killings, fraud and diabolical means of getting rich are now increasing more
than ever before because “They (youths) have graduated from advanced fraud into
ritual and occultic acts.”
He charged both parents and Churches to query the sources of
income of their children instead of celebrating them, saying “The society is no
blind to wickedness and corruption around, our kings and chiefs are awarding
chieftaincy titles to people of shady characters as long as they offer good
money.”
Declaring the Synod open, the Alake of Egbaland, Oba
Adedotun Gbadebo, charged the Church to wake up from its slumber, lamenting
that the Church had forgotten its mandate which according to him was to preach
the Gospel to all nations. The first class monarch said
“The Church seems to have forgotten what we are called for.
As Christians, we are to reach out to all nations, sharing the Gospel and to nurture
disciples to maturity and never leave them uncared for.”
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