General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God Pastor Enoch Adeboye on Sunday made a case for the casual restaurant known locally as ‘buka’ or ‘mama put’.
The cleric said during the church’s thanksgiving service streamed live on YouTube that he had tasted food cooked in ‘bukas’ and restaurants and could tell the difference.
Adeboye was speaking about the closure of public places by the government due to the resurgence of COVID-19.
While the preacher popularly called Daddy G.O. by his members agreed that government officials were doing their best to protect the country against COVID-19, he also said the government were doing some “funny things in the process”.
”When you ask a man to do a job that only God can do, don’t blame him if he makes mistakes,” he said.
”They are trying, humanly speaking, to protect us, they do some funny things in the process. For example, I learnt they closed some restaurants.
”How many of us go to restaurants, we go to buka; only the big men go to restaurants.
”And let me tell you, those of you who think that going to restaurants is better, buka is best.
”I know, because I have tasted both of them.”
Adeboye added that he cancelled physical gathering for the cross-over service on New Year eve because he wanted to teach his congregants to be submissive.
“When you obey in agreement with what your boss says, that is called cooperation. When your boss asks you to do something and you do it, even though you do not agree with him, it is called submission. Submission is when you obey even when you don’t agree,” he said.
The government had directed churches to close cross-over services before midnight over COVID-19.
