Popular actor, Yomi Fash Lanso is
currently not happy with Nigerian pastors and he vented his anger when
Saturday Beats caught up with him at an event recently. The actor noted
that the lifestyle of Nigerian pastors is appalling and he was amazed at
the way they have kept mum over the affairs of the nation.
“Our pastors go about with armed
personnel and I ask myself a question, who wants to kill or kidnap a
pastor? Is he not a man of God? They know that what they are doing is
not good, if not they would not move about with armed personnel. If you
are truthful to God’s calling, who would want to kidnap you? If you
don’t have the notion to harm anyone, then you do not need armed
personnel. I was conferred as a deacon in my church a few years back but
it would not stop me from talking. If they go around with armed
personnel because of the wealth they seem to have, how did they come
about the wealth? Is it not from our tithe and offering? They cannot try
it in America. A pastor in South Africa is rotting in jail because he
molested underage girls. I am sure that if it was in Nigeria, we would
not hear anything. Nothing would happen because we have built our
society around people and not laws. It is wrong. Nathan in the bible
went to King David to convey God’s message without any fear or
compromise but our pastors can’t do so. We are in this mess in Nigeria
because our pastors are not talking. If we are going to count the true
men of God in Nigeria, they would not be up to two among the thousands
that we have. Only a few of them can look in the eye of corrupt men in
government and speak the truth because they would not want to lose their
worldly possession. They know all the rogues we have in government, the
people that are putting us in total blackness. These people attend
their churches but they are not talking to them which means that these
pastors are thieves and rogues as well. Until we start speaking the
truth from the church, we are not going to make any head way in
Nigeria,” he said.
