Nathaniel Bassey, the Nigerian gospel singer, has reaffirmed his decision not to monetise the official YouTube page for his ‘Hallelujah Challenge’ online prayer session.
The initiative, which began in 2017, holds prayer meetings twice a year featuring various gospel artistes and clerics.
Speaking during a session on Thursday, Bassey addressed scammers who create fake pages to profit from the event.
He revealed that certain individuals “criminally clone” his official YouTube channel, stealing the live feed to divert viewers and make money from it.
“There are people who join Hallelujah Challenge from fake pages on YouTube. Let me tell you why, it is because of my personal concentration of not monetising ‘Hallelujah Challenge’, some criminals, crooks, and scams clone and pick the feed from our page to air it just to make money,” he said.
“So, if you find out as you are watching this now and you are not on NathanielBasseymain, that is the official YouTube page. Any other page is a scam. Just trying to merchandise the grace of God.
“They have dragged me all they can. When you monetise, they would say you are doing ministry for money. When you do not they would say you are trying to be proud. We will not monetise it. I am not led to do it. God will bless us some other way.”
