There is anger at the Chapel of Christ the Light,
Alausa, Lagos State, after the Presiding Chaplain, Venerable Femi Taiwo, was
sacked by the Governing Council allegedly on the order of the state Governor,
Akinwunmi Ambode.
PUNCH Metro gathered that Taiwo got the sack on
Monday, May 15, without any query or official reason stated in the sack letter.
He was said to have been ordered out of his official
quarters where he lived with his wife and two children within 24 hours of receiving
the letter.
Despite pleadings from church leaders and other
reputable elders in the church, the government was said to have insisted that
the cleric must leave the church.
Some church members reportedly contributed money to
buy gas cooker, and other household items for the family as they vacated the
vicarage.
Investigations by our correspondent showed that Taiwo
had angered the Governor’s wife, Bolanle Ambode, who had visited the chapel on
Sunday, May 14, when the church held an anointing service.
The church is under the Lagos State Ministry of Home
Affairs, while the Office of the Lagos State First Lady supervises church.
Church members were said to have filed out to receive
anointing oil during the May 14 service without any preference given to Bolanle,
who waited endlessly with her entourage.
She was said to have later moved to be anointed and
moments later, stormed out of the church, as some of the women leaders ran
after her.
Bolanle, who was reported to be visibly angry,
allegedly shunned entreaties from the women, which included the wife of the
presiding chaplain.
The cleric got the sack the following day.
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