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You better keep the same energy. Kidnapping: RCCG petitions Jonathan…to stage one million-man protest ABUJA—The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, yesterday, commenced a nationwide collection of signature of its members that would partake in a planned one million-man protest rally against the spate of insecurity in Nigeria. The General Overseer of the church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, who yesterday initiated the move, insisted that it was high time religious organisations raised awareness over the depreciating standard of security in the country, adding “we cannot afford to celebrate, clinking glasses and congratulating each other when a horrendous decimation of the most vulnerable is picking up a pace and our stock of human capital heading for the abyss.” According to a petition sent to President Goodluck Jonathan by the spiritual leader of RCCG, Adeboye, which was equally attached to the registration form that was used, yesterday, to collect signatures of member interested...

Ayilara who was once a student of Redeemed Bible College (RCBC), an RCCG Pastor School, had written an article in September in which he accused the church's authority of maltreating him while he was in the school. Ayilara said he was questioning some of the things the church was teaching him and many others in the school.When he questioned the church, he was tagged rebellious. Ayilara in his interview with Freeze, narrated how himself and other students of the bible school were kept in unhygienic environment to the extent they were infected with guinea worms and other diseases. He accused the church leaders of forcefully turning them into bricklayers to build houses for the church in the camp ground. He also accused the church of forcing them to do chores for other pastors as well as tendering to the needs of the pastor's household, taking their children to school. He said the church told them that they should count it all as a blessings to do all that they are being forc...