Nollywood actor Gideon Okeke has questioned the reasoning behind cattle herders being allowed to carry arms.
He recently revealed he has not been able to figure why any government would deem it okay for herders to roam around with matchetes and cutlasses.
Speaking via his social media page, he said that if herders are free to go about with arms, he needs to know why a man of God supposedly carrying an item that appeared to be a gun caused such an uproar online.
According to him, unless Nigerians are saying that pastors and cattle rearers are not equal citizens, he does not understand the backlash Pastor Paul Adefarasin got for allegedly holding a firearm.
Gideon concluded by saying that it is strange to see how cattle herders get a free pass while men of God become public enemy number one for doing the exact same thing.
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Meanwhile, Pastor Paul Adefarasin has clarified that he never pointed a firearm at anyone, stressing that the viral falsehood is further proof that the church is not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against spiritual powers and demonic hosts.
He insisted that it was just a case of clickbaiters looking for money, and several Nigerians fell for it.
“This is not merely an attack on a local church or a pastor. It is an organised strategy of the one that we war with. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against spiritual powers and princes, spiritual wickedness in heavenly places, spiritual wickedness in high places, and a range of about thirteen cadet of demonic hosts.
So, the enticement of the enemy is always the love of money at the root of all evil.
What we have had to witness was clickbaiters just looking for more money. I probably wasn’t even their target, their target was to make more money.
I was falsely accused of bearing a firearm, pointing a firearm at an aggressive content creator who came withing personal distance. The only thing separating me and him was about maybe three quarters of a meter and glass.
I do not have a pistol license for a firearm, I do not carry a firearm, and I pointed no firearm at anybody,” he said.
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