About
three months ago when the overseer of Mountain of Liberation Ministry
at Ereke Street, in Ojodu area of Lagos State, Prophet (Dr.) Chris
Okafor broke the news of his abduction in a telephone conversation on
his way from Awka, the Anambra State capital where he had gone for a
crusade, the congregation shuddered with fear. Later on, and having paid
a ransom of N50 million from the church’s savings to the supposed
kidnappers to secure his release, some of the church members have come
to discover that the kidnap story was a ruse. Click to continue
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Orijoreporters was told that what
informed their position was that when they went to receive their pastor
at the Lagos airport, he bore no sign that he was ever kidnapped.
Instead, he looked fresh, and well fed. Their conviction was also based
on the fact that the remains of one of the pastor’s security escorts who
he said was killed in crossfire has not been seen, and neither his
identity known till date.
That was the story of Pastor Chris Okafor
purported kidnapping. The latest is that he is embroiled in a new
conflict with the Igbano family over two-and-half plots of land at
Gbolahan Akinmuda Street, Magodo Phase 1. It happened that Mrs. Igbano, a
member of Mountain of Liberation Ministry, put the land, which belongs
to her younger brother who lives in Switzerland up for sale, but buyer
was not found, and she decided to seek spiritual help from her pastor
who asked her to bring a small portion of the land’s sand in a polythene
bag to him for prayer.
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The 19-bedroom duplex Pastor Chris built on the land he acquired under false pretences
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And as they were praying with
Mrs. Igbano’s eyes closed, it is said that Pastor Chris stealthily put a
tortoise in the polythene bag, which was in his possession. He then
told the woman to open her eyes, and the bag, and to her surprise she
found a tortoise in it.
At that point, the pastor now told her
about the spiritual implication of the tortoise in the sand. This he
reportedly said meant that the woman would die if she sold the land, or
built anything there, adding that she should give it to the church
instead.
Mrs. Igbano believed her pastor’s ‘tales by
moonlight’, and recoiled in horror, and sometime last year, 2011 she
gave out her younger brother’s landed property to the church having told
her brother that land speculators had seized it. Since he thought Mrs.
Igbano owns the land, which is valued at around N80 million, Pastor
Chris felt he has struck gold, and started to erect a personal mind
blowing 19-bedroom duplex on the land, which he completed, and moved
into early this year. He also tried to perfect the land document in his
own favour at Lagos State Ministry of Lands.
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The house where he was a tenant at Asore
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However, some members of the
Igbinos, and the land owner who lives in Switzerland were shocked when
they heard about the land gift to the pastor, and recently moved against
it. They petitioned the Special Fraud Unit at Milverton in Ikoyi,
alleging that Pastor Chris obtained the land under false pretences.
Orijoreporters’ findings revealed that
Pastor Chris used to live in a 3-bedroom rented apartment at Adekunle
Ajuwon Street at Asore in Ajuwon, an Ogun State suburb before he moved
to his mansion in Magodo. It was there, he mastered the fine art of
obtaining by tricks. Even in his church, Mountain of Liberation, which
congregation is over three thousand, he introduced programmes such as
GIVE ALL TO JESUS where regular worshippers are encouraged to donate all
their monthly salaries to the church, and FIRST HARVEST where they are
asked to give their first salaries to the same church every New Year.
The same ‘man of crime’ requests that every church member should give a
minimum of a thousand naira as offering on every Sunday Service in the
church.
Source: Orijoreporters
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