Stealing In Sam Adeyemi’s Daystar Church

<p><em>Stealing in unusual places<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the level of moral decadence in Nigeria is surprisingly assuming frightening dimension&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;This development makes politicians and bandits&comma; who are reputed for anything bad&comma; saints&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Only recently&comma; a Nigeria top media executive had a nasty experience at Day Star Christian Centre&comma; a church shepherd by Sam Adeyemi&comma; a man with the gift of inspirational tongue&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The church&comma; on its website&comma; says &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;God has given us a mandate to raise role models&comma; and He has indeed been faithful&comma; backing our dedication and hard work with a great harvest of transformed lives&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is top priority for us that you partake of wholesome worship&comma; edifying messages to build you up and positive interactions&period; We invite you to tour our website and get to know us a bit better &&num;8211&semi; our service times&comma; locations and membership&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There are also links should you wish to support our ministry by giving&period; We look forward to having the pleasure of hosting you and your family soon&comma; either in person at one of our campuses or virtually&period; In Christ&comma; Sam &amp&semi; Nike Adeyemi&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;But in practice&comma; this mission and ideology appear in contrast to the reality&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In his narrative&comma; the media executive said&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was on a Sunday in February at the Daystar church headquarters in Lagos that my items including money were stolen&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was billed to travel the following Wednesday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We forgot our purse there&comma; containing money and other vital documents&comma; after waiting for worshipper to complete one service&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Before we could come back to claim&comma; it was gone&period; They removed all the cash totaling 13k and left one N20 and one N5&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Interestingly&comma; they hung the purse on a tree afterwards&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I really do not understand the meaning of church&period; This is a church that prides itself as &OpenCurlyQuote;A centre for raising role models&period;’ What kinds of role models are raised in this kind of centre&quest;” He asked rhetorically&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Incidentally&comma; the church also writes on its website that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We run our daily activities based on these core values&period; IREAL I&colon; Innovation&semi;R&colon; Righteousness&semi; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">E&colon; Excellence&semi;<&sol;a> A&colon; Accountability and L&colon; Love&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Attempts to reach the church to ascertain if the leaders are aware of developments like this in the church yielded no response as of the time of filing this report&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;