Adeboye to Journalists and content creators-Stop being mischievous in your stories,investigate before publishing
General Overseer of the Redeemed Christain Church of God,RCCG,Pastor Enoch Adeboye has urged journalists in the country to stop being mischievous in their reportage of his statements to achieve evils ends.
Speaking while delivering his sermon during the Thanksgiving service of the church televised worldwide on the Topic:Activating Your potentials he urged media practitioners and other professionals to report accurately his statements and investigate before rushing to the press.
Speaking further he quoted from the scriptures Jeremiah 1:4-5,John 6: 5-13, he urged media practitioners to follow the life of men in the scriptures like David who misused their potentials and the result of their actions.
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He mentioned specifically how the media twisted his statements made at a gathering in the United States and Nigeria on the threat by President Donald Trump to bomb Nigeria because of terrorism adding that a section of the media interpreted it to mean he gave President Bola Tinubu a clean bill contrary to his statement that as commander in chief he has also given orders to Nigerias armed forces.
He also cited the Oriire kidnap saga when he declared that the captors would be released unharmed but instead the section of the media mischievously misrepresented him.
Pastor Adeboye also cited the misrepresentation of his joining the CAN protest against terrorism in 2020 by the media to have taken place during President Goodluck Jonathan who left power in 2015.
He called all those who have used their potentials wrongly to repent before God and mend their ways.
