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No One Will Run My Church For Me, Oyedepo Blasts FG Over CAMA Law
Presiding bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo, says he will not entrust the management of his church to people hand-picked by the government.
Oyedepo said this on Sunday while expressing his dissatisfaction and opposition to the application of the Company and Allied Matters Acts (CAMA) in churches.
President Muhammadu Buhari signed CAMA into law on August 7, 2020.
Under the law, the activities of religious bodies and charity organisations will be monitored and strictly regulated by the registrar-general of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and a supervising minister.
CAMA invested in the commission to suspend the trustees of an association or a religious body and appoint an interim manager or managers to coordinate its affairs where it reasonably believes that there has been any misconduct or mismanagement, or where the affairs of the association are being run fraudulently or where it is necessary or desirable for the purpose of public interest.
But reacting to the provisions of the law, Oyedepo while addressing members of his congregation on Sunday, said such laws were manifestation of government’s envy about the prosperity recorded by the church.
Oyedepo questioned the rationality behind subjecting churches to the same laws as companies, describing the church as God’s heritage on earth.
He said the church has a duty to admonish devilish rulers in order to be free from their shackles.
“The church is God’s heritage on earth. Molest the wife of somebody and you will see the anger of that person. The church is the bride of Christ. You know how a strong man is when you tamper with his wife. The church is the body of Christ. We are under obligation to give warnings to wicked rulers so we could be free from their blood,” he said.
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“The church works on the pattern delivered by God not the pattern of man. Government has no power to appoint people over churches. This is a secular nation. The church is the greatest asset of God in this country. Please be warned. Judgment is coming. The Lord says I have been still but now I will arise. Anybody that is in this deal is taking poison. This will never work. I am waiting for a day when anybody will appoint a trustee over this church… You can’t gag anybody. We own this country together.
“It is only in Africa that people who are over 80 years still run around to become president. I know that it is the prosperity of the church that is making them jealous. But I am going to live to see an army of many winners soar greater. In this church shall emerge one of the largest concentration of giants on earth.”
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