By Sam Eyoboka
RELIGIOUS leaders including the General Secretary of the Christian
Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Musa Asake; Director of National
Issues of CAN in charge of North West Zone, Rev. Haruna Karatu; and the
PRO of 19 northern states and Abuja CAN, Elder Sunday Oibe have
condemned the comments credited to Pastor Tunde Bakare who was calling
for a revolution because certain eminent religious leaders have private
jets, saying there is nothing
wrong with people donating aircraft to
their religious leaders.
Bakare had said, a few days after church members donated a private
jet to Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as a birthday present, that a bloody
revolution that would consume religious leaders who are acquiring
private jets would soon break out in the country, as he urged their
congregations to challenge them to explain where and how they raised the
money to procure such expensive jets.
Responding, the CAN secretary said: “What is wrong with giving a
birthday gift to Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor? Did he embezzle church money?
Did he collect somebody’s money? If a group of people come together to
buy him a jet to ease his evangelical work, why should that be a subject
of public debate?
“Oritsejafor is a man of God. He is doing everything for the work of
God”. Also speaking on the ongoing debate in social media especially
the tweet by former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir
el Rufai, Elder Eghes Eyieyien said Nigerian pastors who own private
jets should not be envied because they travel very frequently around the
world ministering.
“Redeemed Christian Church of God has thousands of branches and
millions of members on all continents of the world. Winners’ Chapel and
Christ Embassy equally have many international branches and hundreds of
thousands of members. Pastor Adeboye, Bishop Oyedepo and Pastor
Oyakhilome travel thousands of kilometres monthly doing God’s work and
have to be in places not well-served by commercial flights.
Culled: Vanguard
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