He said it
was only when church leaders resolve to ostracise and expose corrupt members of
their congregation that the problem could be solved.
Osinbajo
spoke at a special service organised to mark this year’s Father’s Day at the
Aso Villa Chapel located inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Acting
President, who himself is a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God,
said church leaders must begin to talk more on honesty, unlike the current
situation that more emphasis is placed on giving.
“Every time
that we come to church, we are told about giving. But we need to talk more about honesty. We need to talk far more about honesty. In the same way we talk about giving, we need
to talk more about honesty,” he declared.
Osinbajo
said church leaders must be ready to confront their members who are living
above their means.
He said once
the church took its rightful place and decided to expose treasury looters, the
nation’s problems would be solved.
Osinbajo
said, “If the church says you are not allowed to steal and we will ostracise
you in our midst if you did -if what a man has does not measure up to what he
earns; if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is
earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses
everywhere, we have to hold him to account.
“He must be
held to account in the church. He must
be told first in the church that ‘we will not allow you here.’
“If the
church says ‘we will not accept you here’ or that ‘we will expose you if you
are stealing the resources of the country or stealing the resources of a
private company or other establishment where you work,’ then we would not have
the type of problem that we have in this country. If only the church does so. Just the church.”
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