Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of The Latter Rain Assembly has blasted pastors in Nigeria who are against the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria Act 2011: “I can testify that the law was explained to kingpins in the church, but now you want to get away because you want to cover your iniquity. You won’t get away with it. You want to get away because you have laundered money, and you are now trying to cover your yansh.”

“I am a trained lawyer, I have read the law. The law specifically mentioned Chief Imams and pastors, that they can have lifelong terms. But it says you cannot be chief priest, chief treasurer, and chief administrator. Church leaders who oppose the law are ‘pentecostal charismatic rascals’ who want to do whatever they like even if the law says otherwise. You don’t want to comply with the law, then why did you register under the law? It is a spirit of lawlessness and the anti-Christ because the anti-Christ is a lawless spirit. The fact that I am quiet doesn’t mean I am stupid. I don’t fight useless battles.”