Religious activist slams Lagos state's plan to pay pastors, imams

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The OAP and leader of the free the sheeple movement criticised this newly disclosed plan via his Instagram account.

According to his caption, he believes religious institutions already have too much money.

In his word, "We have spent enough on religion. This is not our problem. Why do we want to pump money into an institution that already generates way too much money??? At this point, religion should be giving back, not receiving! Create jobs for the youths and corruption will reduce automatically. ~FRZ"

Lagos state plans to pay pastors and imams

The news was announced by the Lagos State commissioner for home affairs, Abdulhakeem Abdulateef on Thursday, July 26, Daily Trust reports.

Speaking to imams and scholars, he revealed the state's plans to place some religious leaders on a salary structure in order to help them shun corruption and immorality.

He said, "We shall be willing to even engage many of them by making provision for their salaries so that they can assist government to re-orientate the people for good.

"Imams and Pastors are believed to be men of God. So we need all of you to help us to encourage the right values in the society; particularly in the area of accountability and anti-corruption.

"We must remember that the Almighty Allah will ask all of us to render account of our deeds in the hereafter. So, the Imams and other religious clerics should lead us in the right direction because they are our leaders."

The commissioner shared this at a sensitization programme for Imams and Scholars organized by Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society.