AjanleKoko:

Bros,
I thank you there.
to paraphrase Fela: 'Na so African man life be, suffer don dabaru im sense'
People dey yarn like say na their money RCCG take buy jet.
Questions:
-is it okay for IBB to own a private jet? Cos I never seen any such thread, even though I know for a fact that he has one?
-is it okay for the GMD NNPC to have a private jet? Cos I also know for a fact that there is an official jet of similar spec to the RCCG jet attached to that function.
-was it okay for OBJ to buy the Boeing Business Jet at 100bn plus, even though it was never delivered (to the best of my knowledge)?
-Is it okay for other certified government and allied looters (Dangote, Otedola, etc, etc) to own private jets (because they do o!)?

Adeboye is head of an organization, RCCG, and is answerable only to the trustees of that organization. Also, the jet was not bought by him, but by the organization. That is the problem of the organization, not for general consumption by the general public, and that includes the idle academic in the States who wrote that article. The problem be say, as a religious leader, everybody feels the need to comment about everything he does.
I've always wondered how come the non-members of the said RCCG are the ones raising the most dust about this jet. When your leaders are there buying not only jets but islands, oil fields and what have you. Nobody has anything to say. Instead some people will cite them as the most innovative businessmen in Nigeria. How laughable. Nigeria must be the only country where you become a super-billionaire by selling car stereos to top military men, a la Adenuga. N una sabi.

n_delta:

@ All,

"Touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm" thats what the bible says, please know what and what you write about these men of God.

AjanleKoko:

Bros,
I thank you there.
to paraphrase Fela: 'Na so African man life be, suffer don dabaru im sense'
People dey yarn like say na their money RCCG take buy jet.
Questions:
-is it okay for IBB to own a private jet? Cos I never seen any such thread, even though I know for a fact that he has one.
-is it okay for the GMD NNPC to have a private jet? Cos I also know for a fact that there is an official jet of similar spec to the RCCG jet attached to that function.
-was it okay for OBJ to buy the Boeing Business Jet at 100bn plus, even though it was never delivered (to the best of my knowledge)?
-Is it okay for other certified government and allied looters (Dangote, Otedola, etc, etc) to own private jets (because they do o!)?

Adeboye is head of an organization, RCCG, and is answerable only to the trustees of that organization. Also, the jet was not bought by him, but by the organization. That is the problem of the organization, not for general consumption by the general public, and that includes the idle academic in the States who wrote that article. The problem be say, as a religious leader, everybody feels the need to comment about everything he does.
I've always wondered how come the non-members of the said RCCG are the ones raising the most dust about this jet. When your leaders are there buying not only jets but islands, oil fields and what have you. Nobody has anything to say. Instead some people will cite them as the most innovative businessmen in Nigeria. How laughable. Nigeria must be the only country where you become a super-billionaire by selling car stereos to top military men, a la Adenuga. N una sabi.

PapaBrowne:

This is the best reply on any thread!

Now, if anybody can answer the highlighted questions above, then he has the moral justification to keep criticisizng. If you can't, then forever seal your lips on this issue!

Really, how come members of RCCG are happy about the purchase, while non-members, are the ones screaming fowl!
Why we dey drink panadol for another person headache? RCCG members are happy for crying out loud!!!
Come to think of it, RCCG is an organization and its leaders are responsible to their members and not to the nairaland public!

REAL TRUTH:

Pastor Adeboye Private Jet Until Pastor Adeboye puts up a defense or counter the mounting criticisms trailing this jet stuff,,,everybody or persons trying to defend the pastor re just short sighted and religiuos Bigots.In the US the CEOS of mega Multi-national company re being asked to drop their private jets because its being considered as luxury and waste of tax payers money.
Again I say on this issue,,,until Pastor Adeboye puts up a counter defense on this issue thats when I would truly see reasons.Far beyond the Jet saga,with due respect to Adeboye, RCCG is actually sliding from where it actually started from.Someone saying they have 6000 branches over the world.Do you know that many of the so called pastors in these branches or parishes are not even born-again,,,that is one of the church's biggest challenge.If you read the writers article very well without biase,,,you would know the writer is very informed about RCCG and church in Nigeria.
There are too many scandals in RCCG that are even worst than the private jet issue.The church needs to wake up and go back to where it actually started from,,,

IFELEKE:

And who are you to Judge?
Tell me your religion and your place of worship and I will mention scandals rocking your boat.
The controversial Jet belongs to the Redeemed Church and The church is answerable to The Board Of Trustees,Church Members and God
I don't know how many times this needs to be repeated
As a Good Nigerian,you can report the church to the EFCC instead of idle rantings.
Adeboye will never come out to speak on the jet issue because it's not HIS!
You can continue to shout Blue Murder to The Heavens very soon you will be tired of your rantings(just like every other people that have brought the subject matter up on this forum) and face serious issues battling the nation

IFELEKE:

RIGHT ON POINT!
Jakumo and his Cronies are just threading the path of Blasphemy.
@Jakumo
If you are so much concerned about the  decay in the soceity then start by addressing the issues of your leaders(PAST AND PRESENT) who rob and rub it in your face.
The Babangidas,Abachas,Obasanjos,Atikus,Yar'aduas and so much more are there flaunting their ill gotten monies and all you can do is to pick on The Man of God because you know you can't challenge your plaunderers
Face your problems and stop tackling trivialities.
What Redeem does with monies is the business of the Board Of Trustees,Church Members and God.
Find somewhere else to vent your frustration about the state of the nation.
I wonder!
Nobody has ever addressed the positve impacts of Redeem on the society or the good works the church is doing through Her numerous NGOs.
The Pull Him Down Syndrome has taken over and its seriously ravaging their minds,PITY!

REAL TRUTH:

Bottomline is that I have enough logical reasons to criticise this issue,,,but I would rather wait to hear the story of the major party involved in this saga,,,What do you mean by Judge?Real Christians re actually meant to put their leaders under check,,U mustn't assume they re always right cos in their best form,,,they are still MEN.

IFELEKE:

LEAVE THIS ISSUE AND FACE THE BIGGER MESS OUR ECONOMY HAS BEEN TURNED INTO.

so if you do the math and see how much he spent in a year on travelling, i am sure it aint cheap,

bawomolo:

So handling fees, maintenance fees and the cost of buying a jet are cheaper than a commercial airliner? WTF happened to Delta Skymiles.

Adeboye seems to be building a cult of personality where his actions are unquestioned.

The cost of things my friend, is not measured only in monetary terms! The cost of time for high mobility leaders is much weightier by far than the cost of money!

And may I ask why you still can't understand the fact that as a non-member of RCCG, you have no right to question decisions of the organisation.

bawomolo:

yeah Adeboye has an higher workload than the Pope or Dalai Lama. excuses excuses

I know a cult when i see one.  This is just my opinion

Jakumo:

The world still patiently awaits the scientifically verifyable PROOF that would be required to substantiate Pastor Eunuch's bizarre claim, which was thoughtfully placed prominently at the very end of that Time Magazine article on this circus performer, that Adeboye has invented a car which ran for 200 miles with NO FUEL at all other than PRAYER.

The unspoken truth that was so eloquently made by Time magazine, but which obviously flew right over the heads of Adeboye's hordes of terminally brainwashed victims, was that Nigerian people as a group, despite their well earned reputation for venality, deception and compulsive kleptomania, still rank amongst the most intellectually challenged and easily hoodwinked demographic currently occupying planet earth, as starkly evidenced by their mass acceptance of a Eunuch Adeboye's utterly preposterous premise that PRAYER ALONE can fuel an internal combustion engine.

SegzyJoe:

@Jakumo
You really think that you re wiser than over 10million members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. It's only a fool that speaks the way you have done, it is an abuse of free speech, I know if you believe God you won't insult His messenger like that, and if you don't I wonder why the life of Christian interest you so much. God or Christ is not synonymous with poverty, again, if a pastor has preaching engagements in 7 countries spread across 6 continents and he must come back home to preach at different meetings at home without failing in those appointment, you really think he doesn't need a jet?

SegzyJoe:

For a church that has parishes in china, pakistan, Dubai, Afaghnistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Phillipines, India, Australia, Japan, Israel, and so many other Countries

SegzyJoe:


Some of us that know Adeboye, that he eats less than 60 days in a whole year for as long as he has been the General Overseer of RCCG.

It may suprised you to know that the money for that aircraft is not ffrom the offerings of members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, rather from a few sons and daughter of the GO, I can tell you authoritatively that some of Adeboye's children funds the Holy Ghost Congress annually to the tune not less than 4billion naira every year and that the offering of RCCG is never part of the fund they use for the monthly Holy Ghost Night or the Congress.

How is 4Billion Naira justifiable on a lavish and a less pressing luxury especially in this tough times?

Who told you the Church and its members are having tough times? You think it's everybody having tough times?

[quote] If the bloody jet breaks down, wont he fail on his appointments? [quote]
Who thinks like this?? If we all think like this before we make purchases, we wouldn't have any cars on the street!

[quote]You have been masked and smeared in so much poppycocks, you dont make any sense![quote]
Isn't it high time you realized that sense making is relative, hence, one man's sense making is another man's stupidity.
What is sense to you is senseless to SegzyJoe!

[quote]I am not here to insult daddy GO but what i am saying is Daddy GO should apply his senses more effectively and in the most humane way![quote]
I think if you apply your senses the same way Daddy GO does, you would have left greater footprints on society, as against your little or no contribution besides here on Nairaland!

[quote] We dont bloody care if the church has a parish in the moon, the point is still, the bloody jet is not justifiable![quote]
The same reason why it is not for you to bloody care, is the same reason why it is not for you to justify whether or not the private jet is justifiable!
You have no moral obligation nor justification to speak on a purchase by an entity you don't belong to, worse still when it seems to me all members are glad and happy about it!

beneli:

The only problem that i have though, is that from where i stand, all this doesn't look Christ-like to me.