ARRESTING RELIGIOUS SCAMMERS IN NIGERIA: THE KAGAME MODEL
August 17, 2021 | News
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame's radical approach to regulating the proliferation of churches, mosques and uncontrolled breeding of self ordained "religious leaders" across black Africa is thought provoking, particularly for Nigeria.
-By Zik Gbemre
ARRESTING RELIGIOUS SCAMMERS IN NIGERIA: THE KAGAME MODEL
It's time the Nigerian government employs some strict measures to check the proliferation of religious bodies & self ordained men of God.
The more the churches and mosques we're having, the more the height of evil and backwardness Nigeria is witnessing.
The church tacitly encourages corruption and looting of public treasury by opening it's tithes and offering vaults to receive ill-gotten wealth.
The nation will be better for it if we emulate the churches, mosques cleansing revolution President Kagame has introduced in Rwanda.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame's radical approach to regulating the proliferation of churches, mosques and uncontrolled breeding of self ordained "religious leaders" across black Africa is thought provoking, particularly for Nigeria.
Kagame said, "I have closed down over 6000 churches and mosques in my country and I now demand a degree in theology for every religious leader. Stop playing with people's faith and making a business out of it. Rwanda already is a blessed country."
Nigeria is littered with churches, mosques with teeming followers. We are mocked as the most religious and happiest people, yet crime, evil are increasing unrestrained.
The tithes and offering paying congregations are getting more distressed by hardship induced by corrupt leaders who loot the commonwealth.
Paradoxically, because these looters of our commonwealth donate the highest to the prosperity celebrating churches and mosques, they get the most spiritual of prayers from the clergy who are in turn blessed by part of the stolen wealth as rewards for the prayers.
In Rivers state, a scammer by the name Maxwell Odum, who duped gullible residents to the tune of estimated N171Billion with a ponzi scheme in the guise of investment of their funds in some "MBA Forex" business.
The scammer is on the run with the law, unable to refund those who invested in his ponzi fund scheme. Guess where he poured part of his loot aside living large on other people's money.
Before he shutdown last year and went into hiding, Odum was said to have voluntarily donated N1Billion to Christ Embassy, ranking the highest giver that year.
Four months ago, on a sunny Sunday, the scammed investors stormed the church branch in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over inability of the Chief Executive Officer, Odum, to refund their capital and interests.
The protesters demanded Pastor Chris Oyakhilome to refund their money donated by Odum to the church.
With so much money going into the church, the clergy with hardly any tangible business investments are among the super rich private jets flyers in the country and among the richest preachers across the globe.
Schools are established by the churches from tithes and offerings, including the widow's might from several poor members of the congregations.
Same schools can't admit children of poor church members because they can't afford the fees. The churches in Nigeria are no longer the same one the missionaries brought to establish free schools and sundry infrastructures for the common good of the locals.
We remember the far reaching impact, the Eku Baptist Hospital in Ethiope East LGA of Delta State had on people from far and near, even overseas. Eku was a big health interventionist charity, creating jobs, boosting the local economy, aside giving affordable expert treatment for critical health conditions you can't access anywhere else in the country.
Like the cleansing Kagame has started in Rwanda, Nigeria needs serious regulations to discourage the proliferation of religious groups across the country.
Zik Gbemre.
August 17, 2021
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
-By Zik Gbemre
ARRESTING RELIGIOUS SCAMMERS IN NIGERIA: THE KAGAME MODEL
It's time the Nigerian government employs some strict measures to check the proliferation of religious bodies & self ordained men of God.
The more the churches and mosques we're having, the more the height of evil and backwardness Nigeria is witnessing.
The church tacitly encourages corruption and looting of public treasury by opening it's tithes and offering vaults to receive ill-gotten wealth.
The nation will be better for it if we emulate the churches, mosques cleansing revolution President Kagame has introduced in Rwanda.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame's radical approach to regulating the proliferation of churches, mosques and uncontrolled breeding of self ordained "religious leaders" across black Africa is thought provoking, particularly for Nigeria.
Kagame said, "I have closed down over 6000 churches and mosques in my country and I now demand a degree in theology for every religious leader. Stop playing with people's faith and making a business out of it. Rwanda already is a blessed country."
Nigeria is littered with churches, mosques with teeming followers. We are mocked as the most religious and happiest people, yet crime, evil are increasing unrestrained.
The tithes and offering paying congregations are getting more distressed by hardship induced by corrupt leaders who loot the commonwealth.
Paradoxically, because these looters of our commonwealth donate the highest to the prosperity celebrating churches and mosques, they get the most spiritual of prayers from the clergy who are in turn blessed by part of the stolen wealth as rewards for the prayers.
In Rivers state, a scammer by the name Maxwell Odum, who duped gullible residents to the tune of estimated N171Billion with a ponzi scheme in the guise of investment of their funds in some "MBA Forex" business.
The scammer is on the run with the law, unable to refund those who invested in his ponzi fund scheme. Guess where he poured part of his loot aside living large on other people's money.
Before he shutdown last year and went into hiding, Odum was said to have voluntarily donated N1Billion to Christ Embassy, ranking the highest giver that year.
Four months ago, on a sunny Sunday, the scammed investors stormed the church branch in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over inability of the Chief Executive Officer, Odum, to refund their capital and interests.
The protesters demanded Pastor Chris Oyakhilome to refund their money donated by Odum to the church.
With so much money going into the church, the clergy with hardly any tangible business investments are among the super rich private jets flyers in the country and among the richest preachers across the globe.
Schools are established by the churches from tithes and offerings, including the widow's might from several poor members of the congregations.
Same schools can't admit children of poor church members because they can't afford the fees. The churches in Nigeria are no longer the same one the missionaries brought to establish free schools and sundry infrastructures for the common good of the locals.
We remember the far reaching impact, the Eku Baptist Hospital in Ethiope East LGA of Delta State had on people from far and near, even overseas. Eku was a big health interventionist charity, creating jobs, boosting the local economy, aside giving affordable expert treatment for critical health conditions you can't access anywhere else in the country.
Like the cleansing Kagame has started in Rwanda, Nigeria needs serious regulations to discourage the proliferation of religious groups across the country.
Zik Gbemre.
August 17, 2021
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes