Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Revolution will consume religious leaders -Bakare •Urges Christians to demand explanation on private jets

Bakare

THE Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Monday, said a bloody revolution that would consume religious leaders and politicians alike would soon break out in the country.
Pastor Bakare spoke at a lecture entitled “Reparations: What Nigeria Owes the Tortoise” organised to commemorate his 58th birthday in Lagos.
The lecture was delivered by Dr Pius Adesanmi, a Nigerian Associate Professor of English and Literature at Carleton University, Canada.
Bakare, who is also the convener of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), spoke against the background of a warning issued by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to government at all levels to address skyrocketing youth unemployment as a way to avoid a looming revolution.
The former president had expressed concerns about the future of the country in a speech at a West African regional conference on youth employment in Senegal, organised by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development and the African Development Bank.
He said former President Obasanjo and others responsible for the yawning gaps between the haves and the have-nots in the country would not be spared in the impending revolution.
“Obasanjo said there would be a revolution in Nigeria. When the revolution comes, it would fall on his (Obasanjo’s) head. We have seen what those who are not well-trained have done to our nation. Obasanjo must explain how he came by his farm, how he came by his huge house,” he said.
Speaking against the backdrop of reports about religious leaders who are acquiring private jets, Pastor Bakare challenged them to explain where and how they raised the money to procure such expensive jets.
He explained that he was not pitching the members of the public against religious leaders, adding that such category of leaders would not escape the revolt of the masses too, in view of the havoc that religious institutions had done to the nation.
“I am not inciting the public against the church and the mosque, but the congregation must demand explanation from their leaders. They must demand to know where they are getting the money. If it is not from the church offering, then it is from Abuja. All general overseers must go to prison
“If the revolution does not begin in the church, it cannot spread; if it does not begin in the mosque, it will not spread, because they control the population,” he said.
He enjoined Nigerians to demand justice from those in power and be prepared to campaign against graft and ineffectual leadership bent of destroying the nation’s political fabric.
The lecturer, Dr Adesanmi, who berated the political class for its “greed” and sleaze of the nation’s resources, like the proverbial tortoise in the Yoruba fable, said there had been steady decline in the quality of people leading the nation.
“Nobody comes to that federal theatre of debauched gorging sparing one second to think about how to bake that cake, where to get the flower and the icing and ensure continuous supply of the material and labour necessary to bake the said cake.
“If you look at our post-regional history, you will easily determine that we have produced at least three generations of leaders whose ethos and philosophy of governance devolve from wantonly plagiarising the playbook of the tortoise,” he said.

Tribune

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