Founder and president of Believers LoveWorld Incorporated alias Christ Embassy Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has appeared in a viral video condemning the Black Lives Matter movement.
The movement got international attention after a black man George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minnesota, United States.
Although it was not immediately clear if the sermon was delivered recently, Oyakhilome told his congregation in the video that black means the absence of colour and is not associated with anything good.
According to Oyakhilome, Africans who rejected the ‘negro’ and ‘nigga’ tags are accepting being black when they all mean the same thing.
He said: “Maybe I should tell you something: those of you that say black lives matter, I feel sorry for you! Do you really believe you have a black life?
“Do you want me to read to you the meaning of black? Who called you black? Shouldn’t you have rejected that from the beginning?
“A contradiction, a bundle of contradiction. You refused negro and nigga, but that’s what black is. You took the English version. Negro means black. Do you know what black means? Have you ever seen black?
“Black means the absence of colour, absence of good, absence of light and absence of direction. These are the meaning of black. Black is not a colour. It is the absence of colour. It is about time Africans say to themselves we are not black.”
Oyakhilome had in the past propagated a conspiracy theory about the coronavirus and 5G technology.
The UK branch of his church was fined over the sermon which was termed ‘misleading’.
