Like he's been doing for the last few years, since
2010 I think, pastor Chris Oyakhilome of Christ
Embassy made his followers pay N1,000 each as
gate fee to attend the Church's New Year
Crossover service which held at their Ikeja
church HQ on Dec. 31st, 2014. The ones who
could afford to buy the gate pass were allowed
in, the ones who couldn't were asked to go
back. Now, some of them are mad.
In 2013, the church said the reason they did this
was to reduce the number of people who come
for the annual service, because the venue
couldn't handle the thousands that showed up,
many or whom were not even members of the
church. So, it was their own way of controlling
the crowd.
So the HQ sitting capacity is about 20k, and
let's say half of the crowd paid N1k each, that
would be about N10m for the church from just
gate fee. Some say it's extortion, that no church
should ever ask for money for members to
attend, some say they understand why the
church would insist on this. What do you think?
Is crowd control a reasonable excuse to collect
gate fee at a church?
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