General Overseer of the Living Faith Church International, also known as Winners Chapel Bishop David Oyedepo, has warned his church members not to take COVID-19 vaccination.
The 66-year-old gave the warning on Sunday during the 40th-anniversary thanksgiving service of the church in the Ota Cathedral in Ogun State as reported by PUNCH.
“They should come to me to find out how to deal with COVID-19 at no cost,” he said, before warning his members not to take the “deadly thing”.
“Let me warn you against this deadly thing circulated around the country because it has not been duly tested. An elder of this church, who works with the World Health Organisation, confirmed this, thanking me for always speaking the truth about the authenticity of the COVID-19 vaccine,” he said.
The cleric added that vaccinators went to churches to get people vaccinated, a gesture he described as an “insult”.
“What an insult! What an assault! Nobody has the right to enforce vaccination on you, and anybody cannot terminate your employment because you refuse to take the vaccine, my God will show up (for you).
“Did I tell anyone I am sick? Don’t let anyone harass you into doing what you don’t want to do,” he added.
Oyedepo also alleged that the side effects defeated the benefits of taking the vaccine.
“They wanted Africa dead. I heard them say it. When we didn’t die as they proposed, they brought out this vaccination scheme. You need to hear their proclamation that Africa will lack spaces to bury corpses. But, today, reverse is the case. Africa has the least casualty among all the other continents of the world,” he went on.
Instead of vaccine, Oyedepo recommended anointing oil to kill virus, boasting that foreigners who came for his church’s anniversary had returned to their home countries in good health.
Oyedepo, who consistently defies COVID-19 with maskless crowds at his church service accused the government of forcing people to take the vaccine during a sermon in his church in April.
He vowed not to take the jab, saying he was not a guinea pig.
