Sarah Omakwu, the senior pastor of Family Worship Center in Abuja, has criticised WhatsApp users who disable their blue tick read receipts.
Sharing a clip from her recent sermon on Facebook, the cleric urged users to turn their read receipts back on, arguing that hiding them reflects insincerity.
According to her, many people disable the feature to avoid responding to messages and also keep others in “suspense”.
“Put back the blue tick on your WhatsApp, put it back. Taking it off is lying, and then you keep people in suspense,” she said.
“Most of you who remove the blue ticks, it is insincerity, just so you know.
“Put back the blue tick so that the person would see that you have read. How would you want to not know that God has read your requests?”
Omakwu reiterated her stance in the video caption, arguing that hiding read receipts is “dishonesty dressed as privacy”.
She further enjoined people to turn it back on and “start living in integrity”.
“If you are hiding your read receipts on WhatsApp to avoid accountability, hear me: it is not wisdom, it is dishonesty dressed as privacy. God is raising people who are faithful in small things,” she added.
“If you can’t be honest in a chat, how will he trust you with people, with money, with influence? Start living in integrity; the small place is where he tests you for the big place. Turn it back on, be a person of your word.”
