Pastor Adeboye narrates how he was duped by man who promised to make him a ”military commandant”

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has narrated how a man duped him by promising to make him a ‘’commandant” of a para-military body.

In a post shared on X today September 17, Adeboye said the man, who presented himself as a recruiter for a new paramilitary agency, convinced him to give him some money to help establish the newly created paramilitary body.

He said:

“Years ago, I was duped by a man who promised to make me a commandant of a paramilitary group. This man had been sending messages to me through my secretary for a while, and so, one day, I gave him an audience. He explained to me how a Boy-Scouts-like group had evolved into this new agency, and that he was sourcing for who would lead the group spiritually. Normally, I ask God before getting involved in anything at all, but this time, my love for the military in my younger days beclouded my best instincts, and I agreed to be their head. He told me that they needed some funding, which I gave as the prospective head. However, I later found out that the man was a fake.”

He added:

“My desire to be part of a paramilitary group made me run ahead of God, but God had already purposed for Redemption City to have its own corps of chaplains as well as a local Police post. He knew the desire of my heart, and He had planned for it to be fulfilled in His own time. I thought that I could bring my desire to fulfilment in my own time, but I was wrong. What I lost in that experience was money, but for someone else, it might have been their life or a loved one.”