The Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin, has claimed he was left “hurt” and “shocked” over a viral video which claimed that he brandished a firearm.
According to Adefarasin, “clickbaiters just looking for money” were behind the clip.
The cleric stated this on Sunday morning, just before delivering a sermon to his congregation in Lagos.
“Several persons called me. I was shocked. I was hurt. I’m human,” Adefarasin said.
“What we have had to witness was clickbaiters just looking for money. I probably wasn’t even their target; their target was to make more money.”
Again, Adefarasin insisted he does not own a firearm, although he did not confirm what he pointed at the content creator.
“I was falsely accused of pointing a firearm at an aggressive content creator who came within personal distance.
“I do not have a pistol license. I do not carry a firearm. And I pointed no firearm at anybody,” he said.
Adefarasin added: “It’s our policy not to dignify hate speech and false accusations. We believe God is bigger than that.”
Quoting scripture, he added: “We believe in what He said in Romans 12:19 — ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’”
I was hurt — Pastor Paul Adefarasin breaks silence on viral ‘firearm’ video
