Bishop Oke Vows Christians Will Preach In Buses Despite New Fine

The President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has criticised the National Assembly over plans to stop preaching inside commercial buses across the country.

Speaking in a video shared on social media, Oke urged Christians to continue sharing the gospel in buses and taxis, insisting that no law should prevent them from carrying out what they believe is a biblical command.

According to him, Christians would not obey any law that bans public preaching because their faith requires them to spread the gospel wherever they go.

The PFN president said he was ready to challenge such a move and questioned how authorities would imprison millions of Christians if they chose to enforce it.

He said: “In those days the churches were told not to preach again just like the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria told you not to preach again in buses, make all the stadiums in Nigeria become a prison because if you want to enforce that law we are coming.

“We will break that law because our master told us to go into the world and preach the gospel to every creature and you sit somewhere there and say that we shouldn’t preach in buses? 

“We will preach in buses, we will preach everywhere because you are evil and making evil decrees. We will rather obey God than man because that is what our fathers told them in those days.

“No Pentecostal must listen to that, I’m the National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, I lead over 65 million people, everybody go into every taxi, go into every bus and preach.

“Let them arrest us and turn National Stadium into prison, I will come there, let them build more prison; they would be the ones that would go there and rot there while God will judge them.

“You don’t go after killers, those beheading, rapists, you don’t go after kidnappers, you don’t go after bandits who are unlawfully carrying arms, but you are going after us preaching the gospel of peace. 

“We won’t listen to you, you are not God, you are there for a tenure and God will wipe all of you out.

“Those who are promoting that law God would cut them off, we will lay courses upon you and your family except you repent, there is nothing you can do as we are unstoppable. 

“We are up to it, bring it on and see how you will imprison 65 million people and I will order them on the street to march.”

Meanwhile, the Senate has clarified that the restriction on preaching and hawking inside commercial vehicles is not a new proposal.

According to the upper legislative chamber, the provision has been part of Nigerian law since 2007 under the Federal Road Safety Commission Establishment Act, and it was not introduced as part of the current amendment process.

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