"Why?" Redeemed Member Displeased after Hearing How Much RCCG Pays Abuja Pastor, Shares It Online
- A member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has reacted on Facebook after hearing the salary the Pastor Enoch Adeboye-led church pays its Abuja pastor
- According to him, he found out about the salary when a zonal pastor of the church in Abuja visited his parish and mentioned the salary during his testimony
- In an exclusive chat with Legit.ng, the young man expressed displeasure about the salary, which he considers meagre for a family man
A Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) member in Abuja, Ucee Harmony, has decried the meagre salary the church pays its Abuja pastor.
Ucee, a song writer, expressed displeasure about the salary in a Facebook post on November 23, 2025.
Source: Facebook
Man slams RCCG over salary of pastor
Ucee said he learnt about the salary when a zonal pastor of RCCG in Abuja mentioned it while giving a testimony on his church.
He said the unnamed pastor stated that RCCG pays him N80k, which Ucee found meagre for someone who is a family man, and a full-time pastor.
Ucee wondered if pastors are no longer ordained by God and have turned the employees of the church's general overseers.
He questioned why parishes remit offerings, tithes and seed sowed to the headquarters of RCCG while pastors wait to be paid salary at the end of the month.
Ucee said that if that is the case, church has become a full-time business for generating income for the general overseer. On why he voiced out about the salary, the RCCG member said it is in his nature to speak against ills and not care whose ox is gored.
His full post on Facebook read:
"A Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor who pastors one of the RCCG zones in Abuja came to our church today. He gave a testimony. While giving his testimony he said a lot of things. The one that caught my attention was when he said as a Zonal pastor in Abuja his salary is 80k in naira.
"A mature full grown family man and a fulltime Zonal pastor receives 80k salary from RCCG. A family man with wife and children living of all places, Abuja. Pastors are they no longer called and ordained by God? If they are called by God why are they recruited and turned to employees to daddy GOs? Why pay them peanut as salary?
"Why must they remit offerings, tithes, seed sowings, and other monetary income to the church headquarters and wait till month end to receive salary? Does it mean all their churches scattered all over the country now generate monthly revenue to the church headquarters and then allocation in form of salary is paid to pastors?
"If so, church is now a full time business. Nothing spiritual, nothing special. Just business and a means of generating income, revenue to the oga at the top a.k.a Daddy G.O. All these new generation churches are into full time business, nothing you wan tell me.
"No wonder in one street you can see about 7 different shops asin church business outlets. I am a Redeemed Christian Church of God member for years now, but I can't see black and call it white. It has never been in my nature."
Legit.ng contacted Ucee to confirm his story and he responded, maintaining what he had earlier put out on Facebook.
He further told Legit.ng that the Pastor Enoch Adeboye-led church should allow pastors be in control of the tithes and offerings from their parishes. In his words:
"The salary is not okay for a married man in this hard economy.
"RCCG should allow pastors control the tithes and offerings from their parishes. Pastors called by God shouldn't be paid monthly salaries like ordinary workers."
Source: Facebook
See his Facebook post below:
Suspended RCCG pastor starts own church
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that a suspended RCCG Pastor Idowu Iluyomade had started his own church.
Iluyomade, who was suspended in RCCG in 2024, now owns a church in Lagos named “Family Fellowship." Legit.ng recalled reporting that Iluyomade was replaced at the City of David parish following the public criticisms over his wife, Siju's extravagant 60th birthday party.
The party came a few days after the tragic death of Nigerian businessman Herbert Wigwe, a prominent member of the church.
Proofreading by Kola Muhammed, copy editor at Legit.ng.
Source: Legit.ng
