Begging To Do What? – Wike Knocks Abuja Pastor Kneeling To Beg Over Jabi Lake Land

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has responded to the Senior Pastor of Family Worship Centre, Abuja, Sarah Omakwu, over an appeal not to allocate the Jabi Lake recreation area for private development.

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Naija News recalls that Omakwu made the appeal in a video shared on her Instagram page on Sunday, where she was seen kneeling on the pulpit while addressing the minister.

The cleric said she could not fight the FCT minister but was appealing to him as a mother in the country.

She said, “I cannot fight the minister of the FCT. I cannot. But I go on my knees as a mother in this land that Jabi Lake Recreation Centre should not be given to anybody.” 

In response, Wike, during his monthly press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, declared that he is not carried away by emotions in the discharge of his duties.

He said, “I’m human in this government and you don’t expect everybody to be happy, if majority are happy, then I’m happy. Some people don’t understand what’s going on, you should ask questions.

“You talk about the woman kneeling down and begging, I’m not carried away by such emotions, begging to do what? Who owns Jabi Lake?

“How does it becomes your own? First of all, I came on board that place was given to a company that said they want to turn it to an entertainment place but they have turned it into shanties.

“One of these days I went there and said this can’t be, there is a hotel and who would come to stay in that hotel when there are shanties all over. You don’t know if there are criminals.”