Jet-Buying Pastors Is Not A Model We Want For Our People – Bishop Hassan Kukah
Bishop Hassan Kukah has dismissed the notion that members of Word of Life Bible Church contributed money to buy a private jet for their general overseer, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor
“I do not see anywhere in the world where any worshiping community can claim that they’ve been able to raise over 7 billion Naira to buy such a gift for their pastor. But most importantly for me is that, amidst the squander and the poverty that we face in Nigeria, these are not the kind of model display that we should be to our people,” he said.
The Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese said this during an interview with SaharaTV’s Adeola Fayehun last weekend. The clergy was answering questions about the state of the Nigerian Church and the Boko Haram menace.
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Kukah made it clear that while he has no problem with people buying planes, it is not acceptable that any religious leader should turn material wealth into evidence of where the church ought to be headed.
“Especially when we consider the fact that all this was happening at a time which most of the area where Pastor Oritsejafor himself pastors were under water,” he added referring to the massive flooding that affected several communities in Delta state recently.
The Bishop also expressed concerns about the acquisition process of the jets. He said that it “was rather a deceitful approach, and the fact that this was being presented as a model of how people should measure God’s blessings to them.”
Culled- Sahara reporters
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