Following the controversial statement credited to Prince Eke, the Nigerian actor who spoke about Church owned schools and the inability of the poor to get admitted in these schools, my very good friend and a great scholar, Imaobong Akpan took to her Facebook page to ‘create a balance’ on the issue. People’s orientation towards a particular issue is changed when people like this step in to clarify them. She is indeed a genius.

See what she wrote below:

Some Churches are currently under heavy criticism for building schools that members can't afford. What's the morality in that? Is it Right or Wrong? I can't speak for any organization but I can spare my thoughts on this...

First, let's differentiate between The Church as the entire Members of Christendom irrespective of which group or region, and the churches that are denominations registered as corporate organizations and recognized by the law as such. I'm aware, though not a staff of any church, that some pastors are on a payroll like any other staff working in the 'vineyard', irrespective of whether they founded the church or not.

It's worthy to note also that a large chunk of what you see as the pastors' wealth is mostly from the benevolence of both members or outsiders who feel 'blessed' by them. Added to our culture of 'sowing' into the lives of spiritual leaders, a gesture totally of freewill.

These gifts comes in diverse ways, cash, cars, houses etc. As humans on this earth, I do think that pastors are at liberty to decide what to do with their resources, and by virtue of their position they end up carrying burdens of uncountable needy people (Stories that Newspapers won't carry). Some schools affiliated with churches are actually owned by the pastors as...

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