Ambode under fire as ex-APC lawmaker calls for sale of church in govt house
Sacked Chaplain: Ambode under fire as ex-APC lawmaker calls for sale of church in govt house
- A former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Babatunde Ogala has berated Ambode over sack of Lagos Chaplain
- Ogala, who is a legal practitioner, said that it is illegal for any government to establish church in government house
- He, therefore, called for the immediate sales of church in the government house
A former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Babatunde Ogala, on Wednesday May 31 berated the Lagos state government for building and running a church.
It is gathered that Mr. Ogala, a lawyer and rights advocate, also suggested that the government should sell off the church and use it for other productive means.
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Speaking exclusively to Premium Times at the media launch of a report by the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, the lawyer condemned the government for setting up a church, adding that the government has no business in religion.
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“The government has no business in religion (because) that is what has brought us to where we are. If the Chaplain is being paid by the state government as we are told (and) one has to apply for the job and go through an interview… I just wonder.”
"Commenting on the controversies trailing the sack of the church chaplain, Femi Taiwo, Mr. Ogala explained that he got what he deserved, adding that once anyone subjects himself to a government-run institution, he must subject himself to the protocols.
“He is getting what he deserves,” he said.
We had previously reported that Governor Akinwumi Ambode allegedly ordered the removal of the Chaplain of the Chapel of Christ the Light, Alausa Femi Taiwo
Mr. Ogala, who was a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly from June 2007 to June 2011 where he served as Chairman of the House Committee on Judiciary, said the idea of the government building and owning religious institutions was absurd, adding that such is not the practice in European countries and other part of the world.
“Why should a government build a church?” he asked rhetorically, adding that when he was in the House of Assembly, they had a Chief Imam (Muslim cleric) at the Assembly complex too.
“My view is that the government has no business in it (building and owning religious centres),” he said.
“If I even have my way, they should sell the church and move on and put it to other productive use,” he added.
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