Paul Adefarasin, senior pastor of House on the Rock, has decried the collapse of the naira, describing the country as “dead and rotten”.

The cleric called for God-fearing citizens to help restore the nation.

In a sermon on May 17 titled, “Becoming who God says that you can be: the sequel,” Mr Adefarasin charged his audience to become change agents to rescue Nigeria.

He said, “We need you to become agent. That’s what you are here for.

“We have a country that has more potential than 99 per cent of countries in the face of the earth. But it is dying and its been dying. It is in comatose now and its body is rotten.

“And If anybody can resurrect it, it is the kingdom of heaven. But we need agency, system, kingdom citizens, those who would go and do what is impossible.”

Lamenting the collapse of the naira, Mr Adefarasin said Nigeria had devalued its currency and as a result devalued its people, exposing the entire country to exploitation from foreigners. 

The cleric compared the value of naira in the 1980s to what it is today, saying, “Nigeria is dead. Let us not deceive ourselves. Let me tell you something, once you are counting in naira you are poor. 

“I was not born poor. My father’s last salary in 1970 or 80s, I cannot remember when it was, was about N18,000. That was money.”

He added, “How much is N1.4 billion naira today in dollars? Only $1 million. Do you know what a billion naira was when I was 15, 16? It was $2.8 billion and we are taking it. Because we live in the now. 

“We didn’t study history. They erased it out of our education system. And we don’t research data to project what our tomorrow will look like. We are not doing the critical thinking. So we have no combatant against our subconscious foolishness that determines our behaviour.”

The cleric also criticised Christians who get into government for selfish and personal gains, while urging his audience to embrace godly wealth creation as a tool for national transformation.