I was humiliated over 419 – Pastor Adeboye
By TOPE ADEBOBOYE
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has given details of a humiliating experience he was once subjected to at an international airport while visiting a foreign country.


The respected cleric narrated how he was given a thorough search at the airport as soon as he tendered his Nigerian passport, saying the immigration officials became more suspicious of him when he claimed to be a pastor from Nigeria.

Pastor Adeboye, who spoke with a team from Zero Corruption, a magazine published by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), lamented that corruption has virtually destroyed the image of Nigerians outside the country, regretting that most foreigners now regard all Nigerians as fraudsters.

Said he:

“The moment they heard that I am a pastor, that’s when they decided that the search must be thorough. In fact, they told me that I must preach a sermon! They asked me the last time I preached; I said last Sunday. They asked for the topic, I gave them. What was the theme? I gave them. What was the Bible passage? I gave them.

“At the end, they apologized, saying, ‘in your case, you are genuine. We have caught Nigerians who say they are pastors but who are fake. We have seen people who travelled with what is supposed to be a Bible and inside they had cut off a portion of it and put in drugs.’ In a situation like that you find the innocent suffering because of the misdeeds of a handful of people.”

The man of God linked the alarming growth of corruption in the Nigerian society to the collapse of family ethos as well as the debasement of teachers by the government. “Teachers used to be honourable people but we debased them,” he observed. “We must do something to bring the teachers back to the position of honour that they were before things can begin to go right.”

He also regretted government’s seizure of schools from religious institutions, saying the forceful take-over has contributed to the current rot in the society.

His words: “The church used to be the educator. All the schools were run by missions, at least most of them. Only few were government colleges, like King’s College. In the olden days, in the morning, before you go to classes, you pray, somebody in the school will say a word or two about God. But they threw God out of schools when they took the schools away from the missionaries. The children come to church once a week now, but they are in school five days a week. If we really want things to get back to normal, we have to restore things the way they were in the olden days.

“When we talk about the family also failing, in the olden days, many a time the father would earn enough to feed the entire family. Now, papa would work, mama must work, so there is little time left for parents to look after their children. So when we are looking at corruption as a very big monster, it has several roots and we must go to the root of it, not just cut off the branches and expect that the end of the story will come. We must go deep.”

Adeboye also reiterated that Nigeria would eventually become a great country that would be envied by the rest of the world, even as he advised Nigerians to be optimistic about the future. “I know what God told me that a day is coming that the same people who are ill-treating us abroad when they see the Nigerian passport, they will want to touch you because they would have been convinced beyond doubt that God is in Nigeria. It doesn’t look like it now, but that is what is going to happen,” he affirmed.

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I see you frequent nigeriaworld.com very well

its not even funny.

agaba123:

I see you frequent nigeriaworld.com very well

i think it is "The Sun newspaper" she reads religiously

Abi oh.
Almost all Nigerians that travel through foreign airports face this things. I am used to it and i expect it every time, it is so sad but we have to be ready as a nation to be upright or be ready as citizens to be ridiculed.

I hope the cleric told OBJ what Nigeria has become? Whenever OBJ visits the redemption camp. or whenever The cleric visits Aso rock

dayokanu:

I hope the cleric told OBJ what Nigeria has become? Whenever OBJ visits the redemption camp. or whenever The cleric visits Aso rock

Abiii oooh.

He's only complaining because they embarassed him today. I highly suggest that he fasts and prays for Nigeria.

janami:

i think it is "The Sun newspaper" she reads religiously

haha young lady na somebody aunty you dey yab so.  nawa for you. God know His people. sun news or no sun news

I hope the cleric told OBJ what Nigeria has become? Whenever OBJ visits the redemption camp. or whenever The cleric visits Aso rock

Is obasanjo the proprietor of 419?

OBJ who was the clerics friend led naija to that terrible state. OBJ's govt wrecked naija

OBJ who was the clerics friend led naija to that terrible state. OBJ's govt wrecked naija

You dey smoke weed? . IBB and Abacha wrecked Nigeria, OBJ fixed the much he could in a short time. Our banks are safer today because of Obasanjo otherwise they would have all closed down since the world's economic trouble.

What makes this scumbag think that he is different, to be respected or not a 419er? Is he the one that use to pray for OBJ for wisdom? If the wisdom that had sent million into life of depravity and wants is not a 419 act, I don't know what is.
Collect from the poor and call it tithe to have the money to travel abroad in the first instance, if that is not 419, he should tell us what is. Nigeria is a rogue nation and their subject don't expect to be treated decent outside their shore.

Eziachi:

What makes this scumbag think that he is different, to be respected or not a 419er? Is he the one that use to pray for OBJ for wisdom? If the wisdom that had sent million into life of depravity and wants is not a 419 act, I don't know what is.
Collect from the poor and call it tithe to have the money to travel abroad in the first instance, if that is not 419, he should tell us what is. Nigeria is a rogue nation and their subject don't expect to be treated decent outside their shore.

be careful how you address servants of God. dont say u werent told.

What makes this scumbag think that he is different, to be respected or not a 419er? Is he the one that use to pray for OBJ for wisdom? If the wisdom that had sent million into life of depravity and wants is not a 419 act, I don't know what is.
Collect from the poor and call it tithe to have the money to travel abroad in the first instance, if that is not 419, he should tell us what is. Nigeria is a rogue nation and their subject don't expect to be treated decent outside their shore.

What made you address a revered man of God with so much contempt?. Consider this as your last warning.

@topic yawnnnnnnnn ee toooooooo long   well being a man of God
does not exempt the pastor from being searched by immigration in
a  foreign land. At least he got an apology after the afterwards
but why even bother with dis post its not even worth talkin about.



@dayokanu true true its the same OBJ that handed power
to the northerners in the first place and was still sworn in
a few years ago. I know one day my fatherland will change
for better

inquisitiv:

be careful how you address servants of God. don't say u werent told.

Servant of God my ass!!
Don't say u weren't told. Really? I am shaking in my boots now- F**K him!!!!!

@deor03 u dey talk how wont they stop you, see how many
piercing dey your face you come dey complain, stupid man. Abegi
carry go, na u alone board plane u are just full of rubbish

DeepZone:

What made you address a revered man of God with so much contempt?. Consider this as your last warning.

What is your definition of a reverend?
He is a scumbag as long as I am concern, along with countless of others like him thieving from brainless and gullible Nigerian is the name of God and Christ.
They are the original 419er throught their fake healings and phoney miracles and crusades.
I am sure by now they must have in their possession, God's email address and Jesus SMS number too.

haaa haaa @eziachi thats some hardtalk but you really
sound like you believe in God and his miracles and one
thing i know is not all men of God are phoney. I'D rather have
you rephrase your words but who knows, u may be sayin the truth .

Eziachi:

What is your definition of a reverend?
He is a scumbag as long as I am concern, along with countless of others like him thieving from brainless and gullible Nigerian is the name of God and Christ.
They are the original 419er throught their fake healings and phoney miracles and crusades.
I am sure by now they must have in their possession, God's email address and Jesus SMS number too.

You need to see a shrink. Don't hate plz.

I support eziachi on this

dudu19:

@deor03 u dey talk how wont they stop you, see how many
piercing dey your face you come dey complain, stupid man. Abegi
carry go, na u alone board plane u are just full of rubbish

Hey, young man please be decent with the words you use. I have no problem with your opinion;but if you disagree with mine , then be objective not abusive .
This is not a motor park please.

dayokanu:

I support eziachi on this

I am not surprised because somebody said in one thread 2 days ago that you are an angry man who has never made any happy remark for once on this site apart from empty attacks on eminent Nigerian citizens. It seems you have a little problem with respecting your elders.

Sad

Eziachi:

What is your definition of a reverend?
He is a scumbag as long as I am concern, along with countless of others like him thieving from brainless and gullible Nigerian is the name of God and Christ.
They are the original 419er throught their fake healings and phoney miracles and crusades.
I am sure by now they must have in their possession, God's email address and Jesus SMS number too.

Eziachi:

Servant of God my ass!!
Don't say u weren't told. Really? I am shaking in my boots now- F**K him!!!!!

Do not judge! Bera be mindful of your utterances!

Elders who got us into this mess we are in. The so called elders should be ashamed of themselves.

They are a Failed generation.

Much was invested in them, But they gave nothing back.

The same elders that enjoyed free education can not give the same back

The elders that enjoyed instant employment and a car after school gave back unemployment.

The elders that met a Nigeria that was respected world wide are giving back a country everyone dreads globally

The elders that killed their own father because they want to rule at a tender age (Killed Akintola, Ahmadu bello, Tafawa), led us into unnecessary civil war

and 30years after they are still hugging power (OBJ, Danjuma etc)

It was their mates in Japan and Malaysia that lifted the countries up what did they do to Nigeria?

They sold/shared the future of Nigeria amongst themselves

dudu19:

@topic yawnnnnnnnn ee toooooooo long well being a man of God
does not exempt the pastor from being searched by immigration in
a foreign land. At least he got an apology after the afterwards but why even bother with this post its not even worth talkin about.



@dayokanu true true its the same OBJ that handed power
to the northerners in the first place and was still sworn in
a few years ago. I know one day my fatherland will change
for better

Why do they apologise ? do they do something wrong ?

You dey smoke weed? . IBB and Abacha wrecked Nigeria, OBJ fixed the much he could in a short time. Our banks are safer today because of Obasanjo otherwise they would have all closed down since the world's economic trouble.

This same person will start another topic to narrate how Soludo wrecked nigerian economy and why he must go.
Hypocrites.

As for the nigerian pastors, Eziachi just made the whole thing clear.

Another bitter Nigerian besides DayoKanu and Kobojunkie on the prowl. We need to invest more in psych homes in order to rehabilitate these niggahs.

DeepZone:

Another bitter Nigerian besides DayoKanu and Kobojunkie on the prowl. We need to invest more in psych homes in order to rehabilitate these niggahs.

You will be the first to be admitted.

MC Usman:

You will be the first to be admitted.

Roflmaopimp . Hissssssssssssssssss

Why are you guys crying?
Aren't you the same folks that said it was OK for Obama to use Nigerian 419 scam as an example during his presidential campaign?
You guys haven't seen nothing yet, just wait and see.

I've said this before and I will say it again; others will respect us only if we (Nigerians) are willing to respect ourselves and embrace the pride of our nation regardless of the current situation of our political structure or corrupt leaders. These folks (bad fruit) will come and go, but Nigeria (the tree) as a nation will remain standing for many years to come.

This is our country; and we must never allow few bad fruits amongst us to completely damage the authority of our sovereign as a nation.
The pride of our country is much larger than any leader or anybody; hence, we must think broadly and look deeper into the future.

Many of us (boneheads) are so quick to judge and debase the priceless value of our nation, but also forgot that we are all directly linked to the same substandard ways of life we continue to experience in Nigeria today.
I do not care where you live or where you go, as long as your names are Ngozi, Emeka, Tunde, Segun, Adeboye, Rasheed, Suleiman, Muhammad etc, you're Nigerians and will always be treated as Nigerians.
This is why it is very important for all Nigerians to quickly wake up before it's too late, and recognize that this is our fatherland, we must protect this land together by always doing what is right.

If we refuse not to get it right today, I'm afraid, we are all going to pay for this sin one way or the other; trust me!