RCCG, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, aka Daddy GO, on Sunday revealed how the church
bought its massive campground located along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway for
N6,000.
He said he was almost forced into debt while trying to purchase
3 hectares of land around Iju, Lagos, for N54,000 but resisted the temptation
while searching for land for the ministry’s redemption camp.
Adeboye
narrated, “When this place became too small I asked my elders to look for a
bigger space. Then, I just graduated from the university with less than two
years. So, they eventually saw a land around Iju for N54,000.
“Funny
enough, I was not even having N54. My elders were angry with me because I
refused to borrow. In fact, if our church was the kind of churches where they
vote, I would have been impeached because I told them I was not going to
borrow.
“Few days later, a member was
going to Ibadan from Lagos and he saw the land and called that the people were
ready to accept N6, 000. I told him not to even negotiate and we quickly paid
for it. That is our redemption camp today,” he said.
He made this known
on Sunday at a special Independence Day service at the church headquarters in
Ebute Meta, Lagos, where he delivered a sermon with the title: ‘Freedom for
all’.
He further advised Nigerians against beating the drums of war,
pointing out that the effects of war are detrimental. The cleric narrated the
ordeal of an Igbo girl, whose resuscitation during the Civil War took more than
human efforts.
“During the civil, I was working in Ondo state, and so we
were very close to Ore. And of course those of you who are old enough to
remember, the toughest battle of the civil war was fought in Ore, and for months
after the war was over, there were still skeletons scattered all over in the
bush.
“After the war, we took in an Igbo girl; she was supposed to come
and be a house help; but we spent three months nursing her back to health,
because she was so weak, she couldn’t even carry a bottle of coke.
“After
we nursed her back to health, physically, we had to nurse her back to mental
health. We had to keep on reminding her that the war is over, but she would wake
up at night shaking and asking, “where am I? Which side is the army coming
from?”
“We had to spend time to tell her stop chasing lizards, because
towards the end of the war, they were, according to her, no lizards left in the
east, because they were used for food.
“Please, don’t talk about war. I
don’t want war. I don’t want war in Nigeria,” Baba Adeboye said.
