CONCERNED by the downturn in the value of the naira in the
last few years, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of
God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has said that those responsible will
be arrested.
Predicting that the tide would turn in favour of the
currency, the cleric reiterated that the legal tender will become
powerful again.
Adeboye made the declaration on Saturday morning during the
November Holy Ghost Service with the theme: “Victory Ahead” held at the
3×3 kilometre auditorium at Shimawa, Ogun State.
The university-teacher-turned-cleric told the congregation
how God provided him N17,000 as the total cost to roof the 100 by 50
metres first auditorium of the church in the early 80s through a woman
directed by God from Port Harcourt.
His words: “I told that when we were building the first
auditorium, the one by the expressway, and it was time for roofing and
the roofing was going to cost N17, 000 (Naira was powerful those days
and Naira will be powerful again in Jesus name).
“Mighty auditorium, 100×50 metres, and you want to roof it
with N17, 000! I think the tide will turn for the naira tonight,”
Adeboye declared with a thunderous echo of ‘amen’ following.
He added: “For all those who are deliberately devaluing the
Naira, as my God lives, they’ll be arrested,” he declared with a louder
thunderous “amen” in response.
“It is no longer news that the naira has become a perpetual
victim of devaluation and depreciation against the euro, pound and
dollar especially since the assumption of office by the current
administration with the naira exchanging for between N357 and above to a
dollar in the parallel market.