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Oyedepo warns members against employing officials sacked for looting church funds
The presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, a.k.a. Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo was drawn into a rage recently while addressing the actions of some officials of the church who were fired for allegedly looting church funds.
Speaking at the empowerment summit organised for ordained workers of the church, The Nation reports that the outspoken preacher hit hard at some church officials for allegedly looting church fund.
The annual event, which is usually attended by pastors, zonal ministers and their assistants, deacons, ushers and other ordained workers of the church, was presided over by Oyedepo, while his deputy, Bishop David Abioye, was also in attendance. Both men ministered powerfully. Oyedepo ministered on service, while Abioye spoke on consistency in service.
The programme is organised to acquaint the workers with the church’s programme for the year.
Towards the end of the programme, however, Oyedepo was said to have taken some time to talk about recent events in the church and revealed how some very high officials, mainly accountants, had looted the church’s treasury.
The Bishop could not hide his disappointment that professionals trusted by the church to prevent fraud turned themselves into a network of fraudsters.
Expressing his disappointment at the suspected looters, who reports say have since been relieved of their positions in the church, Oyedepo said:
“Can you imagine accountants perpetrating fraud in the house of God?
“We had no choice but to dismiss them. You can imagine top church officials engaging in doubling figures and other dubious practices.
“Even after we dismissed them, we discovered more fraud.
“Those who should discover the fraud were the ones involved in it. One of them refused to confess until the last minute.”
He admonished the church members against employing the dismissed officials. He said he had to tell everyone present because he knew the dismissed officials “will come to you for employment.”
“Don’t employ them and don’t sympathise with them. Whoever sympathises with the wicked is wicked himself.”
Dead silence fell on the gathering as the Bishop reiterated:
“Don’t sympathise with any perpetrator of fraud, otherwise you are a partaker of the evil act.”
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