{"id":17226,"date":"2024-12-05T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/?p=17226"},"modified":"2024-12-05T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T14:23:15","slug":"former-members-officials-tags-spac-nation-as-a-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/former-members-officials-tags-spac-nation-as-a-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Former members, officials tags SPAC Nation as a cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salvation Proclaimers Anointed Church, popularly known as SPAC Nation, led by Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, has been condemned by the formers members and officials tagging it a cult.<\/p>\n<p>The court rule ordered pastor Tobi Adegboyega to be deported back to Nigeria regarding the alleged misuse of funds. He failed to give account how the money was spent.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Office suggested that things are not as it seems meaning there are more story to it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the judgement: <em>\u201cVarious manifestations of [Mr Adegboyega\u2019s] church have been closed down, by either the Charity Commission or the High Court, because of concerns over its finances and lack of transparency.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFormer members of the church have alleged that it is a cult, in which impoverished young people are encouraged to do anything they can to donate money, including taking out large loans, committing benefit fraud and even selling their own blood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is alleged that the church leadership lead lavish lifestyles and there have, it is said, been instances of abuse. The [Home Office\u2019s] case before us was that all of this needs to be taken into account when evaluating whether [Mr Adegboyega] is in fact of real value to the UK.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvation Proclaimers Anointed Church, popularly known as SPAC Nation, led by Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, has been condemned by the formers members and officials tagging it a cult. The court rule ordered pastor Tobi Adegboyega to be deported back to Nigeria regarding the alleged misuse of funds. He failed to give account how the money was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1798,1870,1863],"class_list":["post-17226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local","tag-pastor-tobi-adegboyega","tag-salvation-proclaimers-anointed-church","tag-spac-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17232,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17226\/revisions\/17232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}