Ebun Francis
Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Founder and Head Pastor of the Later Rain Assembly, Ogba, Lagos, on Sunday said that Church leaders opposing the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria Act 2011 are money launderers. He maintained that by opposing the FRN act, such leaders were trying to hide their nefarious activities from the public.
The fiery preacher and former running mate of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 Presidential election stated this while preaching during Sunday service at the church headquarters.
According Pastor Bakare, “I can testify that the law was explained to kingpins in the church, but now you want to get away because you want to cover your iniquity. You won’t get away with it.
“You want to get away because you have laundered money, and you are now trying to cover your yansh”.
“I am a trained lawyer, I have read the law. The law specifically mentioned Chief Imams and pastors, that they can have lifelong terms. But it says you cannot be chief priest, chief treasurer, and chief administrator.”
Bakare called church leaders who oppose the law, “pentecostal charismatic rascals” who want to do whatever they like.
“You don’t want to comply with the law, then why did you register under the law? It is a spirit of lawlessness and the anti-Christ because the anti-Christ is a lawless spirit.”
It will be recalled that earlier in the year, Pastor Enoch Adeboye resigned as the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God citing the Act as his reason. The outcry that followed from the church hierarchy eventually lead the sack of Jim Obaze, the Executive Secretary of the FRCN.