{"id":200179,"date":"2026-06-30T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/terrorism-and-kidnapping-threaten-pastor-adeboye"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:16:00","slug":"terrorism-and-kidnapping-threaten-pastor-adeboye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/terrorism-and-kidnapping-threaten-pastor-adeboye","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism and Kidnapping Threaten Pastor Adeboye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\">           <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong>         <\/span>The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said that the terrorism and banditry in the northern part of the country is now at his doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Adeboye however lamented that the people responsible for insecurity are moving freely.<\/p>\n<p>The cleric spoke at the US-Nigeria Faith Heroes Award gala, organized by the Save Nigeria Group in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Adeboye said, \u201cIt\u2019s so bad, far worse, that people are asking, \u2018Where is your God?\u2019 That\u2019s how bad things are. The terrorism, kidnappings and other bad things that used to happen in the north are now happening right near my home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have traveled all the way to the southern part. And, of course, the sponsors are all well-known, and they are still moving around without any restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adeboye said he spoke with President Bola Tinubu and First Lady, Oluremi, who is also a pastor in the RCCG, about the country\u2019s security problems.<\/p>\n<p>He said he told the Nigerian leader to give orders to military officers in the armed forces and set a 90-day deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWipe out this rubbish or resign. Then take care of the supporters and the sponsors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The RCCG leader said politicians and businessmen are behind the terrorists and bandits.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the government must go after the sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of them are businessmen. Some of them are politicians. Go after them. If you don\u2019t take action against those providing weapons and bullets, and since they often ride motorcycles when they move around, the problem will keep happening if we don\u2019t target the people funding it,\u201d Adeboye added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">           Find more news and analyses on           <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Nigeria<\/span>           on the           <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span>           website         <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said that the terrorism and banditry in the northern part of the country is now at his doorstep. Pastor Adeboye however lamented that the people responsible for insecurity are moving freely. The cleric spoke at the US-Nigeria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":200178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-200179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Terrorism and Kidnapping Threaten Pastor Adeboye - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/terrorism-and-kidnapping-threaten-pastor-adeboye\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Terrorism and Kidnapping Threaten Pastor Adeboye\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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