Bishop David Oyedepo the President and Founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, AKA Winners Chapel, has said that speaking out against oppression and injustice should not be classified as hate speech.
Oyedepo said this at Faith Tabernacle, Ota, Ogun State on Saturday, while delivering his sermon during the impartation service of the 20th Shiloh, which is the annual gathering of members of the church
It would be recalled that the Federal Government had made attempts to criminalize fake news and hate speech.
Earlier in the year, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, described fake news and hate speech, especially in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country like Nigeria, as a time bomb waiting to explode if not checked on time.
However, Oyedepo did not mention President Muhammadu Buhari nor the Federal Government during the sermon, but he stressed that speaking out against oppression and injustice done to one could not be justifiably classified as hate speech in any way.
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