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Pastor Tunde Bakare
Convener,
Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has accused some church
leaders in the country of aiding and abetting corruption.
The Serving Overseer of The Latter Rain
Assembly also said some churches not only encourage and harbour corrupt
individuals, but also receive ill-gotten money from them.
He said this while delivering a speech
in preparation for the first anniversary of the Occupy Nigeria Protest
in Lagos on Sunday.
He said, “The church has failed the
nation. Worst oppression is going on in the churches today. Most
churches encourage corrupt leaders by failing to tell them the truth and
collecting their money.”
Speaking on the theme, ‘Corruption and
the Soul of the Nation’, the lawyer regretted that corruption had robbed
the country of the chance to realise its potential.
He said, “It cripples a nation’s
character and drains her of substance. We are confronted daily with news
and reports of executive corruption in high places, assaulted with a
legal system that has long lost respect for the sacredness of justice.
“We have resorted to worshipping and
preserving certain sacred cows and even their sires. We have a social
system that makes a mockery of a country and her feeble efforts at
self-reclamation to the end that even her entire existence becomes a
running joke.
“This is not mere alarmism. Our country
has long been distorted by corruption and it has progressively eroded
her strength and undermined her potential.”
Bakare reiterated his call for the
convening of a national conference, saying it would help solve some of
the country’s socio-economic and political problems.
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