Popular gospel singer Nathaniel Bassey has called out individuals allegedly streaming and monetising his Hallelujah Challenge content without his consent.
The singer, who pioneered the globally followed online worship event, revealed that despite the massive reach and traffic the challenge generates yearly, he has deliberately chosen not to monetise it for spiritual reasons.
However, Bassey lamented that some individuals have taken advantage of this decision by creating fake YouTube pages to rebroadcast the event and profit from it.
In his words:
“They are people who join Hallelujah Challenge on fake pages on YouTube. Because of my personal consecration of not monetising Hallelujah Challenge, some criminals, crooks, and scams clone and take the feed from our page just to make money.
If you find out that you are not on the official Nathaniel Bassey YouTube page, any other page is a scam just trying to merchandise the grace of God.”
Bassey added that he has faced criticism from both sides — from people who accuse him of doing ministry for money and others who question why he refuses to monetise his massive online following.
“They have dragged me all you can. When you monetise, they say you’re doing ministry for money; when you don’t, they say you’re proud. I’m not led to monetise it. God will bless us in other ways,” he stated.
While some fans praised his conviction, others cheekily suggested that the singer should monetise the platform and donate the proceeds to charity rather than allow scammers to profit off his ministry.
“He should either monetise and give to charity or leave the crooks to continue monetising,” one commenter wrote. “God doesn’t need to lead anyone to do this abeg!”
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