Residents of Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area were stunned when they saw a certain Pastor Samson Benjamin, General Overseer of Resurrection Praise Ministry carrying a coffin.
The fascinating occurrence happened last Sunday, 11th of April 2021 as the cleric protested against the Buhari administration in the Festac Town axis of Amuwo-Odofin LGA.
Pastor Benjamin, popularly known as Jehovah Sharp Sharp, carried a coffin as he marched through the streets Navy Town, Satellite Town, on Sunday, April 11 2021.
According to the minister, he stated that God asked him to do so because he wasn’t happy with the government and the state of the nation. The cleric explained that his action was the outcome of “a spiritual journey of more than one year”.
“From the 15th of September 2019 up until this moment, I have not eaten food cooked by fire or any pleasant food, I have been seeking the face of God over this great country. Last week, I had a mortal vacation, which was a solitary confinement where I didn’t talk to any human to be with the cabinet of the trinity, I didn’t see the sun, moon, clouds.What you are seeing me do here right now is what the Prophets of Old would do. God will ask them to carry a symbol when he wants to pass a message to the leaders of the nation. He said to me ‘Go and carry a coffin on your head, it is not furniture or anything for interior decoration, it is good for nothing, it is at the end of the life of a man that he is put into a coffin’.
“Tell the leaders that they have intentionally depleted the common resources that belong to this great country and have brought hardship on the citizens, I am not happy with it.”
On why he didn’t take the coffin to the Aso Villa, the seat of power in Abuja, Benjamin said God had not asked him to do that yet.
“Human rights is the right of citizens of this country, we have found ourselves in a government that sees you as an enemy when you are being constructive in your criticism.”