This is surely not the best of times for Maureen Badejo who has consistently fabricated lies against Dr. D.K Olukoya led Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries. Just like we have been updating you from the beginning, with our scrupulous investigation and ear to the ground on MUAREEN BADEJO’s issues with MFM ministries and the General overseer, Dr. D.K. Olukoya, on her Social media escapades, all her gimmicks, lies, fabrications, drama’s to gain followers and make money from her live streams are finally grooming to an unpleasant end.
Continuing with her lies for a few days now, she has stated that she had won the case filed against her by MFM on some of her latest YouTube and Facebook streams, but like you know her as the mother of lies and deceit, she is nowhere close to that. As a matter of fact, we believe her troubles are just about to start.
Maureen took more than she can chew this time, and we will advise that those of you donating money to her course should wise up and see her for the scammer that she truly is. Maureen Badejo has since August 20, 2020 been consistently broadcasting video programs maligning Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries and her General Overseer – Dr. Olukoya.
Rather than be provoked, the Man of God and the Church have been patiently engaging her legally while she has always boasted that she could only be sued in the UK. We have very reliable scoop that after protracted efforts at pre-action engagement by the Church’s Solicitors in London were scorned by Maureen, she has finally gotten what she had been screaming for – A LEGAL ACTION IN THE UK!.
Although ALL THE LEGAL PAPERS WERE SERVED TO HER IN GOOD TIME as confirmed by the court, Maureen has FILED HER FIRST STATEMENT IN THE CASE BEFORE THE QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN LONDON, in which SHE CLAIMED SHE DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME AND COULD NOT GET A LAWYER TO HELP HER. This is someone claiming to have won a case!
Based on the need to give her a fair opportunity to engage a counsel, THE JUDGE ADJOURNED THE CASE TO A LATER DATE. MFM and Dr. Olukoya, by taking the matter to court have not only shown THAT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE but have also afforded Maureen Badejo an opportunity to either prove all her scandalous statements against the Church and the Man of God or face the legal consequences of Social Media grand standing.
Meanwhile, three other suits are pending against her in Austria by Pastor Kayode whom she claimed committed Fraud in the United States, Violation of Logo, an authorized usage of the Trademark and Copyright materials and in Nigeria for Libel. We will keep you informed of developments as they occur.
The General Overseer of Champions Royal Assembly, Brother Joshua Iginla has declared his support for the #EndSARS agitators across the country.
In a live video shared on his page, the popular prophet frowned at the rate at which young men are being killed as a result of police brutality.
He explained that most of them are being killed simply because of their dress code and ownership of laptops, which according to him, is terrible.
“Some of our youths have been killed innocently and Massacred recently over dress code and for holding a laptop. We all know we are in a digital era where you transact business via mobile. Its not everyone holding a badge that is into cyber crime.
The rate at which young men have been killed, bastardized and destroyed is terrible. We Need to look at it seriously”
He made it known that the government also need to pay attention to the salaries of security operatives and work on flushing out bad eggs, while praising the good ones among them.
“Pay the soldiers and pay attention to them. That is not to say that fighting the corruption in the police force is not important.
Seriously. Its not a one way thing. its is two way thing from the salary of the police to the abuse of power from some few bad eggs among them.
Its just like the stigmatization we pastors are facing that all prophets are corrupt. Its everywhere. lets not generalise it . let’s deal with the bad eggs, flush them out and reform them.
I feel its not just about brutality of police but bad governance we should Deal with. When we have bad government their will be issues of poor governance or poor attention to things that matters. Imagine we have one person having houses scattered all over the world like Dubai, Canada amongst others.
They loot our money which can be used to pay police and boost their morals and make them discharge their duties effectively”
Also, He praised Nigerian youths for pursuing a good course but adviced them to be constructive in the protests
“In my own words, they are doing well but we need to be careful during this protest So we don’t just heat up the moral of these people saddled with the responsibility of protecting us.
The reason is that it will get to a point they won’t be able to discharge their duties and crime rate will increase and a LOT OF LIVES WILL BE IN TROUBLE.
Right now, a lot of people are being kidnapped here in Abuja and the rate of standard of living has gone down tremendously, lets be careful. Am talking to the youths too lets be careful with the way we do and ensure we are constructive in all we do.
Let’s balance our criticism so we can sit around the table and dialogue, That does not mean that the vision i see should not be given attention toby the government of the day.
if you don’t give that vision attention we will have what we might not be able to Handle.
if our leaders dont treat the source of these symptoms…. what we are seeing now are just symptoms, there is no way we won’t get to a point where we will define or decide whether we staying together or not.
You can not continue to suppress the voice that cries for justice when their is injustice.
The disbandment of SARS is not the real issue. when you have a place producing oil and they are battling with water, air pollution and their needs not attended to, or the resources from this place are taken away to develop other section of the country and the owners are not enjoying the benefits of these resources, it’s injustice. we cannot continue to have people who feels we are part of this country and they have never ruled this country before.
If there is injustice we will be having issues.
We should rotate it until the right leadership does the right thing but if they continue to use police to suppress the voice of justice and this suppression has limitation. that’s why its good for all stakeholders to talk about the injustice happening to some regions”
The clergy with the prophetic mantle and Shepherd in charge of Champions Royal Assembly has dished out fresh Prophetic insight concerning Nigeria as she Celebrates her 60th independence anniversary.
Iginla reiterated the shortfalls that have bedeviled the country and reeled out the mind of God for this country .
‘In Nigeria today, we dont have fathers of the land. The efforts of our forefathers such as Nnamdi Azikwe, Tafa Balewa and Obafemi Awolowo have been thwarted.
Their dogged passion for a one Nigeria has been taken away. We now have colonial masters despite our freedom.We celebrated our 60th independence but still living under mental slavery.
Prices of food items have multiplied in the market. The poor man cant afford to buy rice again and it has become a hot cake. Lives of people are unbearable because people who are supposed to steer the ship of this country no longer have feelings for the masses.
We have natural resources and one of the richest in Africa yet living in penury and begging for survival. We signed contracts with China that are very complicating and mentally distubing for the future of this country. Nigeria is a ciountry other countries are meant to loan from. In the midst of this pandemics , the electricity tariff has skyrocketed to a level you can think of..
The voice of the masses has been subdued. You cant even tell if the voice of the masses is truly fior the masses. . We can no longer diffrentite human right fighters, actvicts and labour union from politicians. Everything has been adulterated and polluted.
That is niot to say the government of the day is not trying butr I feel it has gottenm to a point that if the masses are sufferuing, then the duty of the Government of the day is questionable. Its time to see that Nigeria might be celebrating her independence but are we really free? We need to pray.
Some will ask man of God whats your message for independemce? I see a new Nigeria in the hands of God. Nigeria is a country that cant be abandoned. I see leades that will stand up and steer the fortune of this country and turning it arpound to what it should be. I see the giant of Africa raising her head and walking gallantly among its competitors, rising up to become what it should be…I believe in this country and iwant you to believe there is hope fior Nigeria. We will get there. We are work in progress.’
For some weeks now, one misguided and possessed woman named Maureen Badejo who is obviously looking for followers on social media for financial gains has been speaking about the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries UK, so much that she went ahead to attack the person of Dr D.K Olukoya, the wife, the son, some key people in the church and the entire organisation, with fabrications and unfounded stories cooked up by her and some conniving fired former MFM pastors of doom ,for whoever cares to pay her any mind.
This woman moves from ministry to ministry speaking ill about pastors and ministries, she was on RCCG for a while and when her emptiness faded, she decided to jump on MFM. Her show is for ridicule and unfounded gossip as she claims to be doing an exposition of crooked ministries but we all know that its for the money that comes from followership.
But why ridicule those who have no business with being ridiculed? Why connive with people to destroy ministries and peoples hard work with fallacies and terrible conspiracies, Mountain of fire and Miracle ministries is no ordinary ministry and what Maureen does not know is that she jumped into the fire of God. I have personally witnessed the power of God move through the humble and soft spoken man of God Dr DK Olukoya and I believe mountain of fire will be the last bus stop for this lady, for her and the dark forces behind her must surely be consumed by fire.
In her frustrated ranting and misguided arguments , her unfounded allegations against the man of God expands from fraud in the church, adultery, lies, adoption, fake marriage, fornication, purchased baby , conspiracy and so on . But first let’s look at Maureen Badejo the so called woman who is behind theses unfounded stories
This is a lady, no, a woman that wrecked her husband’s business, scammed and defrauded him before absconding to the UK. She registered a church as a limited company, instead of a charity organisation so that she can defraud people and take advantage of the UK government through charity aids. The name of the so called church is FREEDOM APOSTOLIC REVIVAL INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES LIMITED with company number 1111076. You can look it up , and If you want to know more about this woman of darkness, that is going to and fro like her father looking for whom to devour, visit the page of the You tuber victor king and watch the exclusive expose of a live testimony of Maureen Badejo husbands friend baring it all in a telephone conversation with victor King
As a journalist I believe that there are always two sides to a matter, and before stories are aired both sides must be properly investigated, but because Maureen and her cohorts knows that the Man of God D.k Olukoya will never respond to such unfounded pack of statements and gullible stories , she decided to fabricate stories, cook up lies with the aid of a set of rogue pastors that has been kicked out of MFM for misconduct and misappropriations, little did she know that these people she is working for are on a mission and obviously didn’t tell her the truth about the matters arising
She succeeded in whipping up sentiments and grabbing the fast listening gossip audience, but I say no to this madness and perjury hence I have decided to dig into the matter and correct her evil tantrums
You see Maureen is on a mission and if not called to order with the truth she will end up derailing so many young believers and faint hearted people that are already falling prey to her satanic gimmicks.
First of all, DK Dk Olukoya the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire, is a fine man of integrity, humility, discipline, holiness, respect for mankind, above all a humanitarian, this is a man with over 30,000 people worldwide on some sort of pay role for upkeep of different levels, these people range from widows, rehabilitated prostitute, destitute, fatherless, homeless, jobless , and too numerous to mention. This q man of God gives scholarships, pays house rents for families , pays school fees for international studies, supports missions , researches , universities and so on , apart from the DR being a role model of faith, a father ,a preacher of Christ, he also goes about doing good, and now somebody like Maureen is trying to use his passion for humanity to stain his GOD GRACED personality .
Let me quickly tell you the many lies of MAUREEN BADEJO against the man of God, first, she stated in one of her YouTube live stream that the man of God has issues with his wife, this actually made me laugh because this is the biggest lie from the pit of hell, she said she hasn’t been in Nigeria for years, the wife comes home whenever she is free from school and other of her businesses and whenever she has a program to attend to here in Nigeria.
Another fabricated lie was that Olukoya’s wife was never pregnant, that Elijah was purchased, the craziest of these allegations at this point is that Mr and Mrs Olukoya are divorced, and that Mrs Olukoya has moved to Canada for the past two years. Hshaha, I laugh at your ignorance. I beg your pardon Maureen, you have completely crossed your boundaries, and since you don’t know, let me bring you up to speed with the truth.
From our findings we gathered that Dr Mrs Sade Olukoya hasn’t visited Canada since 2005, we also got to know that Elijah was born at the very popular hospital in London, the PORTLAND HOSPITAL in 2004 . You can look it up, the doctors that took the delivery of the handsome young man are still very much alive. It’s only a man that is cursed that will look at Elijah and not see a splitting image of Dr D.k Olukoya.
For her long absence from Nigeria that you claimed YOU DEFINITELY HAVE THE WRONG PERSON IN VIEW. Sorry to burst your bubbles ma, Dr Mrs Sade Olukoya was home during the inauguration of the Lagos state governor in May, she was home for the burial of the General Overseer’s mother sometime in August last year, she was at the cross over night service of 2019 to 2020 and the first PMCH of the year.
Maureen I can tell you all her visits for the past months and the ones to come but I don’t think you deserve such, you can look them up on YouTube, we await a proof of your allegation, the document of purchase of their baby and every evidence that you have that proves that Elijah is not the child of Mr and Mrs OLUKOYA. And a divorce document and proof of her Canadian residency and address.
MAUREEN in the quest to pull down dabbled into matters that rogue pastors have tried to use to get back at Dr Olukoya , after been excommunicated, placed under suspension or put to undergo strict disciplinary measures, and failed .I call it The tax evasion lie, this lie has never worked, Just as those rogue pastors were ignorant of the fact that his books are duely freighted into different part of the world where they are sold through due process, the so called Maureen foolishly fell for it and blabbed her way all through her social media stream that Olukoya has a case of Tax evasion in the US , A case that has been won and dusted by the man of God many years ago, you can look it up ,but we are also waiting for Maureen to provide the proof of her allegation.
Maureen Badejo said that the sum of 150,000 pounds was paid into the account of DR .D.K Olukoya by one pastor to cover up his fraudulent act in London, from our deep investigation we had the opportunity to talk to a few people who knew about the case and our findings just proved to us that Maureen is indeed a case of insanity or bad communication.
First of we realised that no pastor in the UNITED KINGDON HAS EVER PAID A PENNY into the General Overseer’s account , and the matter was not a case of fraud, it was a contract agreement that was breached by one of two parties over a property and the settlement money was to be paid into an MFM account but was diverted into the pastors account of which he used for things not directly stated by the ministry and this matter has been resolved years ago with disciplinary measures taken, of which the pastor has started paying back the money to the ministry in the UK , SO YOU CAN SEE THAT MAUREEN NEEDS DELIVERANCE.
The wife of the General Overseer is a pastor of the ministry and she is entitled to salary and benefits, but our finding has shown that she has never received a dime from the MFM UK church. Maureen in one of her taunting YouTube streams stated that the wife of DK Olukoya receives the sum of 35,000 pounds per annum from the church in the UK, and also stated that their son Elijah has 6 billion in heritage bank in Nigeria, we have done our research and found out that the young man Elijah has no account what so ever in that Bank. For the wife that receives salary of 35000 pounds we would like Maureen to state the name of the bank that these monies are being paid into, the branches paying the money, account number and if possible statements or any proof of these transactions, Maureen Badejo if you want to whip up sentiments, don’t use lies or unfounded accusations, you will end up reaping the consequences of your bad intentions, we are waiting for the evidence of your accusations.
Maureen Badejo also lied that Dr Olukoya as the General Overseer of MFM covered up the alleged sexual infidelity of one pastor Dupeola Ajayi, of which this is not true. The GO, upon receiving the allegation, immediately summoned the pastor to Lagos Nigeria and made him to face series of disciplinary measures which were not limited to immediate recall, immediate suspension from ministering, Deliverance at the Prayer City for two months, rehabilitation program under the supervision of one of the Assistants General Overseer, Pastor Ladejola. Dupeola Ajayi, decided to resign instead of submitting himself fully to all these disciplinary and rehabilitating measures.
In one of her streams, she claimed that an MFM pastor in Austria was involved in financial recklessness and was arrested. Whereas, the said allegation was duly investigated by the Police and the alleged pastor was given a certificate of clean bill and this happened years ago but she is making people think that these false allegations are recent happenings , but Maureen can you stop for a while and question the integrity of the person feeding you with these doctored matters
This hooligan of a woman lied that MFM Pastors falsify documents to stay in the UK and Olukoya knows about this , first of, there is no way the general overseer of a big church like MFM will know the immigration status of all his pastors, that’s impossible, but again this practice has several sermons and books in Olukoya collections, preaching against acts like this and this is one of the reasons you are trying so hard to dent and mar the image of the church, in other words scatter or pull down the ministry because from our investigations we have found out that the persons you are working for are the set of rogue pastors that were kicked out of MFM for most of these atrocities you are accusing Olukoya of ,you are wicked and your sins will not go unpunished
You spoke about charity money fraud without getting the facts and knowing the truth , the Charity case of the 1 million pounds gift aid was more of an external fraud committed against MFM, not a fraud committed by MFM OR DK OLUKOYA .Maureen Badejo is been fed with lies and rumours that will not only destroy her but put her in a very big trouble with God , you keep calling Olukoya name that he committed fraud with charity money, but ma, it was an act committed by one so called pastor with an external auditor and the case had since been resolved, with the pastor paying back the money amicably, mind you, these monies never got to the bank account of MFM before they were swindled out, so Maureen bridle that serpent tongue of yours that contains only venoms of destruction
You Maureen alleged that a sum of 4 Million Pounds was stolen from MFM and this were also known to Dr Olukoya who she claimed that is fully involved in the frauds. I will forgive you for this statement FOR this is total abysmal ignorance, let me correct you and kindly tell your feeders to always convey their information correctly. The 4 million pounds as recorded is the total gross asset of 2017, it was not liquidated cash , it was a calculation of properties, donations and more , please we would urge Maureen to tell us how the fraudulent act of the 4 million pounds was committed by Dr Olukoya or how the money was stolen by MFM pastors
You seem to be very much interested in peddling false allegation of women being touched in MFM, lets you forget MFM IS A DELIVERANCE MINISTRY and people come with different kind of spiritual problems buried in different part of their bodies, both male and female and anointing oil is an essential ornament of the work of prayer.
What you failed to understand is that, as a do it your self-ministry. You practically do the anointing of your body yourself and if it’s a place you can’t reach, same sex pastors are called in to do the applications , and these are cases spanning from rape victims, women with both sexual organs menstrual disorders, fruit of the womb ,ovarian cyst, women with long term pregnancies, strange male organs ,men with both organs , men with permanent erections , men with shrinking organs , and many more, the corridor sees all sort and the power of God is fully manifest beyond human understanding, I can stand to testify any day that Dr Olukoya will never touch any woman inappropriately, The man OF God even uses a bottle with a spray cap to dispense anointing oil when dong his work .
I urge that you desist from these evil act that you put up to tarnish characters and images of role models and peculiars beings, that you and your unborn generations can never become . All for mammon, repent Maureen for your judgement is nigh. Be warned, your fake paid callers and supporting rogue pastors will disappear when the fire begins to burn.
All is set for another time of open doors get ready for overflowing joy this Friday, as God will grant answers to your prayers.
#globaldayofprayer #gdop #pastorchris.
Sahara Weekly had reported that the Believers Loveworld Incorporated also known as Christ Embassy will begin its international day of intercession 2020 this Friday, September 25th, 2020 by 6pm to Saturday, September 26th, 2020.
Being a Man sent from God and a unique minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, Rev Chris Oyakhilome’s Spirit-filled and anointed leadership will continue to propel a dynamic, multifaceted and global ministry at this year’s programme.
The programme will be available online via: prayer.rhapsodyofrealities.o for a life transforming encounter
The corridor as it sounds is just a term to describe the place that people sit to wait for their turn to see the General overseer of the mountain of fire and Miracles ministries, DR DK OLUKOYA and I happened to be a beneficiary of the work of that place, described as the spiritual clinic by those that have
experienced the raw power of God on display in this almost 200 square meters of open space.
This is just an office space, as a matter of fact a place that can be described as the GO’s office, counselling room, situation room, or a place of intercession. It’s a place where you get a closer look and witness the power of GOD move through the general overseer as he reaches out to those possessed, oppressed, depressed, confused, mentally ill, insane, sick, handicapped and so on, a place where you will meet people from all works of life, seated with prayer points praying and waiting for their turns to see the Doctor, either for financial aid, church activity approvals , spiritual problems, church matters, charity work and all sort of activities, this is a place that I can say traffics over 1000 people daily, trooping in and out for one issue or the other.
In this environment, people display different kinds of manifestations, from vomiting different kind of creatures, rolling on the floor like serpents, tearing off their clothes, becoming violent, speaking in strange languages, behaving like wild beast, shrieking out loud, voices speaking through people, and lot more.
There was once a case of a man, who was under the influence of the Holy Ghost fire, immediately the General Overseer started praying, he tore open his trousers to reveal his manhood that has a serpent fork tongue, this is a place where the power of God is always and fully demonstrated and this of course happens when the fire of God move into the midst through the man of God Dr D.k Olukoya.
These scenarios on the other hand are not recorded to be televised like some ministries do, but are phone recorded to show to those whom have put up these displays unconsciously or subconsciously for them to see the handiwork of God and how deeply rooted they are to the powers that have taken them captive.
So I was really disturbed having been a witness to the raw power of God in this same corridor, watching this daughter of the son of perdition, Maurine Badejo from the marine kingdom, speak ill on social media of the wonder working power of GOD that goes on in the corridor as it is fondly called, mind you it’s just an office where people wait.
This daughter of jezebel was talking about women being fingered and ladies virginals been wiped with handkerchief at the corridor, haaa, madam destroyer , from what part of hell did that kind of thought come from ? But how? When? And how can it happen? Impossibility cannot even describe the word because I would like to ask this Marine possessed lady a few questions
1. Is there a secret room where these activities go on, or are we talking about same open corridor were
tons of people move in and out and have over 15 clergy personnel’s taking care of activities?
2. Do these false allegations take place in the open or behind some closed doors that doesn’t exist?
3. Can Marine Maurine give us proof or provide videos or evidence of all she has been saying about the
corridor? A lot of us are typically aware of her paid callers, but at least can she get one person to come
out and say that these things have happened to him or her?
4. Are there any reasons whatsoever this woman is after the house of God with such venom from the
abyss, with cake baked lies that she is serving to people who know not the true path?
You see Marine Maurine has been touching different ministries but the devil just pushed her into fire and I know for sure that the fire of God of the mountain of fire will consume her in a short time, shedrach Meshach and Abednego seemed like criminals when they were escorted into the fiery furnace, but little did those that threw them into the fire realise that the fire will come out and select them for consumption, I feel for her social media followers who fulfil her money chasing desires through followership on social media. She will indeed fill you with stories that will derail your faith your person and your position, she seem convincing by using emotions and fictions to speak to people , but the truth will always suffice be guided brethren.
Twitter and other social media platforms has been set on fire over the reaction of popular Nigerian-Romanian born On Air Personality (AOP) Ifedayo Olarinde popularly known as Daddy Freeze to a social media write-up of the presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Tabernacle a.k.a Winners Chapel. Bishop Oyedepo in a series of tweets on marriage has written “The only way to a fruitful marriage is submission on the part of the wife. Until it is in place, every other thing she tries to do will be out of place. As a woman, you might even be a minister of the gospel, and your husband is not, the Word of God still says to submit to him.
” One of the ways a husband should express his love for his wife is by giving. A husband should willingly and joyfully give gifts to his wife. How much is given is not the issue. He should rather accept his responsibility, by joyfully giving his wife gifts. That is what counts.”
But in his way of doing things Daddy Freeze had capitalized on the first part of the tweet to lash onto the revered man of God on his own twitter handle where he responded by saying submission in the Bible goes both ways and that it is both the wife and the husband that must submit to one another.
His response has however elicited harsh words from many twitter users who questioned his right to give marriage advice where he failed in the past not too long, according to one twitter user with @jesusemmanuel_ty47 handle he questioned the rationale where a man whose marriage ended in divorce is questioning a man with over 30 years marriage and this in turn attract reaction from the AOP a situation that has seen others weighing in.
The only way to a fruitful marriage is submission on the part of the wife. Until it is in place, every other thing she tries to do will be out of place. As a woman, you might even be a minister of the gospel, and your husband is not, the Word of God still says to submit to him. pic.twitter.com/hYocX8rHFh
One of the ways a husband should express his love for his wife is by giving. A husband should willingly and joyfully give gifts to his wife. How much is given is not the issue. He should rather accept his responsibility, by joyfully giving his wife gifts. That is what counts. pic.twitter.com/oeg0B3o4CA
Because I failed once doesn’t mean I can’t succeed this time. I’m much happier now. Hope you can get a re-wire to remove that ‘check engine’ light flashing in your brain. ~FRZ pic.twitter.com/nYBAgymvqt
I didn’t direct my tweet to dingbats with IQs competing with their shoe sizes. Paul, Christ and Catholic priests give advice on marriage without being married so your infantile argument is dead on arrival.
CASON Board Members: Seyi Oladimeji [President] Tomi Vincent [Legal Adviser] and Segun Shelleh [Treasurer]
The Church Administrators Society of Nigeria (CASON) has announced the need for churches in Nigeria to see the new Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020 as a call to reposition themselves; improve self-regulation and entrench proper administration, rather than see it as persecution by government.
Addressing professional members, invited pastors, church administrators and members of the public at a webinar hosted online in Lagos, Nigeria Wednesday August 25, CASON President, Pastor Seyi Oladimeji said, “Understanding the law and applying it to the way churches are run is an administrative issue. That is why we seek to educate The Church today.”
Speaking at the webinar, CASON Board Member and Adviser on Legal Matters, Mr. Tomi Vincent submitted that if Nigerians embraced CAMA 2020, the law would help in building more credible businesses and not-for-profit institutions, including churches.
“The new law also grants power to the Corporate Affairs Commission with the approval of the Minister of Trade in cases of misconduct or mismanagement to suspend trustees for the purpose of protecting the property of the association or for public interest or for abatement of fraudulent administration, which also include frivolous remuneration or reward of persons acting in the affairs of the association or other frivolous administrative expenses e.g. indiscriminate honoraria for guest speakers without established policy or protocol” Vincent said.
It was noted at the webinar that certain features of CAMA 2020 provide for prosecution, fines and suspension of trustees where falsehood, misconduct, criminal negligence etc are discovered in the registration, activities and operations of a church under ‘Incorporated Trustees.’
Also speaking at the webinar, CASON Treasurer and Governing Council Member, Mr. Segun Shelleh, who is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, explained that CAMA 2020 specifies clearly, the legal framework for the registration of churches as incorporated trustees, appointment, qualification and removal of the trustees, constitution of the church, appointment of its governing body, application of its income and property, rendering of accounts, annual returns and dissolution of the organisation.
Shelleh said, “It is advisable to apply the funds of a church strictly for the purposes set out in its constitution. Proper steps should be taken to include in the church constitution, every legitimate purpose of the church that is not already in its constitution, which may include approaching the CAC to alter such constitution in line with section 833 of CAMA 2020.
“Any trustee of the church who needs to draw salaries from the organisation, should immediately consider removing himself/herself from the trustees’ body and remain just a staff of the organisation rendering his/her service to the church dutifully in compensation for every salary or remuneration received” Shelleh advised.
CASON has promised to issue a communiqué following the webinar on CAMA 2020 as an advisory to its constituents who are the founders, leaders and administrators of churches in Nigeria.
In concluding his address, CASON president, Oladimeji said: “If churches are better self-regulated, we would not need to be externally supervised by any government agency for we would function by the law. That is why CASON organized this webinar even as we get ready to host our 2020 annual conference in September.
“Our detailed professional advice to the Body of Christ in Nigeria shall be contained in a communiqué soon to be published and circulated to all our constituents” Oladimeji said.
The General Overseer of Champions Royal Assembly, Brother Joshua Iginla has reacted to the Company Acts And Allied Matters (CAMA) bill signed into law by the President Of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari some weeks ago.’
Under the law, religious bodies, and charity organisations will be strictly regulated by the registrar-general of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and a supervising minister.
Section 839 (1) and (2) of the CAMA law provides that the commission may by order, suspend the trustees of an association or a religious body and appoint an interim manager or managers to coordinate its affairs where it reasonably believes that there has been any misconduct or mismanagement, or where the affairs of the association are being run fraudulently or where it is necessary or desirable for the purpose of public interest.
While reacting to this development, Iginla blamed some church leaders for creating division in Christianity, hereby allowing the government to trample on churches without fear.
He lambasted them for having unnecessary doctrinal argument when there are other issues to deal with
‘One of the reasons the body of Christ in Nigeria is having problem is because we don’t know our capacity. We have lost focus and spent time having doctrinal argument. We are the light of Nigeria.
If we want to ensure that a Christian becomes the president of this country, we have the capacity but we are so self-centered and divided that we are running to people that should be running to us, everything doesn’t end in prayer, there are things we don’t need prayer for in Nigeria. We have the capacity to strengthen things but the church has lost her tastes. We are in days when we no longer attack the devil but ourselves.
The reason people from other religion will continue to do better is because they understand their capacity.
If as a Christian leader, you are corrupt or found wanting, you should be dealt with but I disagree that someone will propound a law into a spiritual entity. Its because the church is asleep. Last year, I prophecied that the church will face persecution because the church is asleep’
Also, Iginla made his stand known on the CAMA law, explaining that the law is a coup against Christianity and that some pastors are ready to die to prevent the law from being implemented on churches.
He maintained that the church was built by the labour of pastors and appointment of trustees who know nothing about the growth of the church, the affairs of the church is highly condemnable
‘’Do you know what it took some of us to labor to grow a church up to this level and someone will say he will appoint a trustee over the Church. You don’t even know how the church came about. If a pastor is corrupt, let him face the law and go to jail but appointing a trustee? Some of us are ready to die before you do that to us, it is absolutely wrong.
Do you know why it is happening like this? Because the church isn’t feared.
How do you make a law for the church? You change the trustee and put your own trustees? When has some organization become a spiritual entity? Are you about to preach, do deliverance, in what capacity will you control the church? Make laws that prevent men of God from being corrupt and if they are corrupt, take them to court but putting your trustees is a coup against the church’’
Furthermore, He advised the government to divert its attention and energy into fight against corruption in the government
‘Sometime I laugh. Thank God for this government and what they are doing, but I must say their energy must be channeled on the right thing. Those who have looted our money and sent our children to live in penury, those governors that have embezzled money should be sent to jail. Its only in my country that those who are fighting corruption are even corrupt. Money that was spent on Covid-19 , how many got it? Those who are in charge should be sent to jail. Leave the church alone. We are not government. If any pastor is found looting with the government, send him to jail but hunting the church is the last place of priority in the fight against corruption.
The government should intensify efforts against those ones. These are people we should use as scapegoats. I am not saying they should not look into the church, look into it but appointing a trustee in the church is wrong. If anyone is appointed to take my sit in my church, except the Lord hasn’t anointed me, He or she will not live to see the next seven days’’.
Popular prophet, Brother Joshua Iginla, the General Overseer of Champions Royal Assembly has began work on a massive 100,000-seater capacity of another city of wonders in South Africa, bugger than the city of wonders in Nigeria.
The internationally revered Prophet visited the site where the building is being erected with his wife, Prophetess Stella Iginla, and some of his team members. The ultra modern structure we learnt sits on a multi-million naira expanse of land acquired in Johannesburg, South Africa.
In a post on his facebook page, He also revealed that he was at the city of wonders and prayer mountain in South Africa
‘Maranatha Majestic Generation, indeed God is ever faithful. Yesterday I was at the City of Wonders and Prayer Mountain right here in South Africa, to the Glory of God Almighty.
GOODNEWS!!! Work has began in the City of wonders.The God of wonders who has brought us this far will surely preserve us
Recieve uncommon grace to finish strong!!!’’
City of wonders is a Prophetic name given to Joshua Iginla’s 100,000-seater auditorium in Abuja which was built some years ago.
In a bid to take the gospel across the shores of Nigeria, Brother Joshua Iginla decided to take the gospel to South Africa and also replicate the city of wonders in the country too.
Interestingly, Joshua Iginla is one of the most philanthropic prophets in Nigeria, having given out cars, houses to the desolate, financial needs to the less privileges, scholarships, placing widows on full time salary, to mention a few.
