13th August, 2017
The General Leader, Cherubim and Seraphim, Ayo Ni O, Special Apostle Funsho Korode, has urged religious leaders to be security conscious in their various places of worship.
Korode gave the advice on Sunday at the 30th Anniversary and 2nd year Investiture Anniversary of the General Leader at the National Headquarters, Surulere, Lagos.
He spoke against the backdrop of the recent church killings in Ozubulu in Anambra.
“Nigerians should be security conscious. Let the churches also be security conscious.
“Let the security men be security conscious. ‘’Let us be disciplined and the country will be better,’’ he said.
Korode also urged religious leaders to be careful when accepting tithes, donations and gifts from individuals, who allegedly engaged in dubious businesses.
“It has to do with some drug barons who are now tracing each other to church.
`They are in the church but they are encouraged by some people in the church who have the lust for money.
“Many people engage in dubious businesses and often come to donate huge money, build churches from their dubious businesses and religious leaders will accept it without asking questions,’’ he said.
Korode said there was need for religious leaders to alaways preach salvation and not prosperity, saying that preaching salvation could discourage armed robbers, drug barons and prostitutes from their ungodly acts.
The cleric urged parents to bring up their children on the path of God and good upbringing.
He said that since parents played vital role in the lives of children; they had to build a solid foundation for the children to live decent life.
“A foundation must be built at an early age which must be followed throughout the child’s adolescence and beyond.
“An individual life’s success or failure depends on the quality of parental upbringing received when he or she was young.
“Parents and guardians are essentially responsible for the moral, physical, social, mental and religious teachings of their children,’’ Korode said.
The cleric said that some parents had become so preoccupied with their jobs and social lives that they neglected their children.