[ 2014-02-10 ]

Non-achievers not qualified to criticise me: Duncan-Williams
Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams says people
who cannot match his achievements in life are not
qualified to criticise him.

The Presiding Bishop and General Overseer of the
Christian Action Faith Ministries (CAFM) burst
forth with that comment midway through his Sunday
sermon when, according to him, certain members of
his congregation hurled judgmental looks at him,
as he narrated a story about how a rich Nigerian
man depended on his (Duncan-Williams’) prayers
to get round his insomnia.

‘You can look at me anyway you want to look at
me and you can have that facial expression…with
some of you I can look at your countenance and I
know that you don’t agree with me but I will not
apologise and stop preaching it. I’ll preach it.
Your countenance [doesn’t] move me at all. You
don’t know where I’ve come from. Please give
me a break. You don’t have to agree with me. It
is my opinion and I’m entitled to it’, he
fired back at his alleged critics mottled among
the congregation.

According to him, non-achievers and
under-achievers are not qualified to criticise
him.

‘…Until you’ve been where I am and you’ve
done better than I, you are not qualified to
criticise me so don’t overstep your
boundaries’, he warned his critics.

‘Before you can sit down there and try to
subject me to your logic and to your philosophy,
ask yourself, what have you accomplished in life?
I have 300 people on my payroll that I pay every
month with IRS, SSNIT and other benefits just in
this auditorium alone apart from other places; I
oversee over 2,500 churches affiliated with Action
Churches that are under my command. You, you
haven’t accomplished anything. Just because
you’ve been to some school, you can sit down
there and you think you have the right to
criticise somebody…please give me a break’,
Archbishop Duncan-Williams thundered.

‘That’s the problem in society. Everybody
thinks they can speak; I’ve been to school so I
can read and write so I can just talk so you talk.
Talk is cheap. Do something with your life. Affect
people. Every day I feed over 220 drug addicts
including 160 orphans, I feed them three times a
day and I never complain. Over 250 people on
scholarship roll and we pay scholarships every
term without complain...and I carry all those
responsibilities on my shoulders. And you, you
don’t even have a child. You are not even
married. You haven’t even paid the school fees
of one child before and you have the audacity to
contend with horsemen when you can’t even fight
with footmen’.

Source - Radio XYZ

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