I, Hon. Onyebuchi Offor, a representative of the highly respected Offor family in Ekwusigo LGA and by the grace of God, Minority Leader, Anambra State House of Assembly, bring you salutations from the Offor family.
Our attention has been drawn to recent publications by Sahara Reporters which are evidently designed to defame Sir Emeka Offor, a most illustrious son of Igboland.
Given the patent falsehood running the gamut of the said publications, we consider that Sahara Reporters has constituted itself the orchestrator and purveyor of a targeted smear campaign against Sir Emeka Offor, possibly for economic gain and at the behest of certain unscrupulous elements.
There is no gainsaying the fact that Sir Emeka Offor is one of the most industrious and accomplished Nigerians of his generation. He has attracted and enjoyed God’s entrepreneurial and pecuniary blessings for over three decades. He has in turn consistently channeled those blessings toward the betterment of his fellow man (and woman and child) by remarkable acts of philanthropy. Notable among the plethora of honours and recognitions that he has received in that regard is the award by the Rotary Club International for his immense contributions towards humanity and the global war against polio.
We wish to make clear that contrary to Sahara Reporters’ libelous assertions, the following is the true and unimpeachable position with regard to Sir Emeka Offor:
Sir Emeka Offor is hale and hearty.
Sir Emeka Offor is a happily married man with beautiful children whom he loves abundantly and who love him very much in return. .
Sir Emeka Offor’s multinational businesses continue to thrive and prosper by the grace of God. Similarly, his personal wealth continues to endure for the benefit of the multitudes who have benefited from his legendary largesse, munificence and altruism.
Planning by the family for the burial of our late father, Pa Offor, continues apace. We find it disgusting that Sahara Reporters chose to disrespect the memory of Pa Offor by bringing him into their odious publications.
Sir Emeka Offor’s contributions to the local community are innumerable; permit us to enlighten Sahara Reporters on a few:
Sir Emeka Offor contributed over 50% to the building of Oraifite Civic Centre which stands as one of the best civic centres in the South-East of Nigeria.
Sir Emeka Offor has run a remarkable university scholarship scheme for over twenty years with the provision of a car and automatic employment for beneficiaries graduating with first-class degrees. Thousands of Nigerians have been proud beneficiaries of this scheme to date.
Sir Emeka Offor runs a widows’ cooperative society with over 3,000 members as of today. Under the auspices of this cooperative society, he sent a significant number of the widows to India for training on managing a cooperative society. They have subsequently been able to establish a microfinance bank and other thriving microenterprises.
Sir Emeka Offor built and fully equipped one of the best Anglican churches in the South East of Nigeria, located in Oraifite.
Sir Emeka Offor singlehandedly constructed a major community road (off Onitsha/Owerri road to Oraifite /Nnewi border). This project was executed by renowned civil engineering and contracting firm, MCC.
Sir Emeka Offor built Ekwusigo LGA Central Police Station .
Sir Emeka Offor provided a free water scheme for the four quarters of Oraifite (Unodu, Ezumeri, Irefi and Ifite).
Do we talk about the various skill acquisition programs undertaken by youths of Ekwusigo LGA under Sir Emeka Offor’s Youth Empowerment Scheme? Just last year, Sir Emeka Offor not only trained over one hundred youths in various skill acquisition programs but also empowered them financially to start their own businesses on completion of their training .
Sir Emeka Offor is a serial job creator with over 3,000 Nigerians under his payroll, indirectly creating over 10,000 jobs in addition.
Apart from within his conglomerate, Sir Emeka has helped innumerable people secure jobs in Nigeria and abroad. The breadwinners of many families are gainfully employed today through the efforts of this great member of the Offor family.
Sir Emeka Offor’s star of charity shines far beyond his immediate community.  Again, we wish to mention but a few of his national and international works of benevolence:
Partnering with a U.S. based NGO, Sir Emeka Offor has through his eponymous Foundation donated books, reading materials and computers worth over $22 million to schools and communities in more than 18 countries in Africa including Nigeria.
Sir Emeka Offor has established a glaucoma research centre at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Mainz, Germany and in conjunction, established a Nigerian fellowship for cataract surgery and glaucoma management at the university.
Sir Emeka Offor donated $2 million, which was matched with a grant of an additional $4 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative launched by the Rotary International, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the U.S. Center for Disease Control.
Sir Emeka Offor, through his Foundation, entered into a long-term agreement with The Carter Centre to eliminate river blindness (‘onchocerciasis’) in Nigeria. Pursuant thereto, Sir Emeka Offor provided a $10 million grant to the Carter Center, the largest grant ever received by the Center, to facilitate the Center’s efforts in eliminating river blindness in Nigeria.
In light of the above, we wish to ask Sahara Reporters some pertinent questions:
What do you intend to achieve by the malicious publications? To increase the traffic to your website or to advertise your skills as character-assassination experts available for hire?
Why have you never reached out to Sir Emeka Offor, in keeping with the ethics of journalism, directly or through his conglomerate’s media relations’ representatives, to get his own side of any of the stories you wished to peddle?
How much have you been paid to deliberately and recklessly foment a campaign of calumny against Sir Emeka Offor, including but not limited to bringing emotional and psychological distress to his family and loved ones by exposing them to ridicule and odium?
Sahara Reporters has published over seven sensationally libelous articles on Sir Emeka in the last thirty days.  The lack of objectivity in your intentions is self-evident in your relentless and ungrounded focus on one individual.  We continue to wonder who might be the sponsors to whom you have lent your connivance and instrumentality. We are aware that like any successful businessman, Sir Emeka Offor has competitors who would benefit from his being brought to disrepute.   
We want to assure Sahara Reporters however that we will not sit back and watch you continue your attempts at discrediting our brother. We intend, as a family, to take advantage of all legal and equitable remedies available to us in domestic and international law against Sahara Reporters IF WITHIN SEVEN (7) DAYS, you fail to tender an unreserved apology to Sir Emeka Offor and his family for your defamatory publications and character assassination.  We also demand that Sahara Reporters cease and desist henceforth from making any other or further defamatory publications against Sir Emeka Offor or any member of the Offor family.
Thank you.
Hon. Onyebuchi Offor
(Minority Leader, Anambra State House of Assembly)
For the Offor family of Oraifite, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State

Source:
http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/stop-defamatory-publications-sir-emeka-offors-family-warns-sahara-reporters-others/

I av always said that these Sahara reporters people don't get there facts straight b4 reporting.

Sahara Reporters are just hungry for defamatory rumours, so they can feed their gullible readers

Sahara reporters wants the Ofor family to come grease their palms with some money. You know that this economic hardship is effecting all and all.

Sahara reporters are ready to write anything provided someone is paying for it.


Ndi a..
Ka asi na m si.

Abeg oga lawyer park well...tell Emma offor and his dubious CEO Fred Udechukwu to go and pay Globalscan staff their severance package being owed them since the end on destination inspection contract DEC. 2013. The poor families are starving and struggling for survival. leave all this praise singing of Emeka offor all na wash.

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http://www.fullgist.com.ng/2016/09/libelous-publications-sir-emeka-offors.html

Emeka Offors fortune is dwindling there's no doubt about that...


But he's still a Perfect Billionaire....



E.g if Dangote is worth $10billion and next year he falls down to $5billion, surely Dangote fortune is dwindling but it doesn't mean he's not a billionaire.

Saharareporters are known for propaganda and junk journalism.. .....They will soon meet their end

Sahara Reporters are just disgraceful. Cash and carry journalists. Oraifite people are proud of their son. Whoever is fighting Emeka Offor is an enemy of progress and a devil.
God bless you oooo....Sir E.

We must set the records straight not through unprofessional conducts but highlight the relevance of statesmanship of Sir Emeka Offor to every generation.

Paid media house coming at him is the high of absurdity.

Sahara reporters have over stepped their boundaries.

That's their normal mode. They source for wealthy Nigerians and try to spew gutter so they can grease their palms. Stupid Sahara

KissCODE:
Sahara reporters wants the Ofor family to come grease their palms with some money. You know that this economic hardship is effecting all and all.
Sahara reporters are ready to write anything provided someone is paying for it.
Ndi a..
Ka asi na m si.

uote author=masam post=49580587]Abeg oga lawyer park well...tell Emma offor and his dubious CEO Fred Udechukwu to go and pay Globalscan staff their severance package being owed them since the end on destination inspection contract DEC. 2013. The poor families are starving and struggling for survival. leave all this praise singing of Emeka offor all na wash.[/quote]

udogugerald:
Sahara Reporters are just disgraceful. Cash and carry journalists. Oraifite people are proud of their son. Whoever is fighting Emeka Offor is an enemy of progress and a devil.
God bless you oooo....Sir E.

We know Yele Sowore as a paid pen so this not new.

My advice don't destroy what you can't build.

It's so unfortunate that a very popular brand like SAHARA REPORTERS will brandish weak and baseless tools in the form of writing falsified informations to ridicule the GREAT personality of Chief Emeka Offor. It's a slap to the face and a despicable act.

Cash and Carry system of Journalism, irresponsibility at its peak and a stab to the GREAT person of Chief Emeka Offor. I just hope Justice prevail this time.

udogugerald:
Sahara Reporters are just disgraceful. Cash and carry journalists. Oraifite people are proud of their son. Whoever is fighting Emeka Offor is an enemy of progress and a devil.
God bless you oooo....Sir E.

Dcomrade:
Saharareporters are known for propaganda and junk journalism.. .....They will soon meet their end

Sir Emeka Offor will not subject himself and his family to cheap blackmail from small boy Yele.

Their end is near, he who sows evil will reap evil in bountiful ways. The ened of Sahara Reporters.

Dcomrade:
Saharareporters are known for propaganda and junk journalism.. .....They will soon meet their end

lalasticlala, help us take this to d home page.
People need to know that Sir Emeka Offor is NOT guilty of all sahara reporters have been writing about him,

Sir Emeka Offor’s multinational businesses continue to thrive and prosper by the grace of God and @SaharaReporters cant stop his shine

SaharaReporters and their Boss Yele Sowore are the greatest media terrorist on the Nigerian media Sphere.. How do you cook up lies to defame, malign and blackmail another person .. for no just cause ?? Is this not the handiwork of psychopaths ?

@SaharaReporters did you know that Emeka Offor built and fully equipped one of the best Anglican churches in the South East of Nigeria?

SaharaReporters are so unprofessional and lacks the tenets of journalism. They're always seeking cheep popularity

Sahara reporters.......

Sahara Reporters needs to stop its campaign of calumny against sir Emeka offor..

Yele Sowore, If your main source of palm greasing is no longer paying, Sir Emeka Offor is not your prey. Good bye.

Lol...you people are even taking Sahara Reporters seriously? Those clowns? Abeg, the Offor family shouldn't have wasted their time because those people are renowned idiots. Sir E, God bless you. Just keep doing all you have been doing for Ndigbo. Daalu!

Please...what do you mean by Sir E. is guilty? What do you know about our Igbo icon?

lordoddy:
lalasticlala, help us take this to d home page.
People need to know that Sir Emeka Offor is guilty of all sahara reporters have been writing about him,

[size=14pt]Emeka Offor in other climes such as China would be facing firing squad for corruption.Chrome Energy owned by him collected contracts for TAM of the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries right from the time of Abacha to Goodluck Jonathan regime to fix the refineries and he embezzled the money running into hundred and potentially billions of dollars.
I lived in Warri and there was never a time when the refineries worked during the contracts were given to Emeka Offor companies.
This man is one of the greatest enemies of the country and is reponsible for why we still import fuel. Nigerians know your enemies that sabotaged your country and used the funds to buy private jets and give crumbs to the masses.[/size]

LastMumu:


And how is building a fully equipped church an achievement worth celebrating?

Änd How is that the business of Sahara deserters?

Dutchboy:
[size=14pt]Emeka Offor in other climes such as China would be facing firing squad for corruption.Chrome Energy owned by him collected contracts for TAM of the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries right from the time of Abacha to Goodluck Jonathan regime to fix the refineries and he embezzled the money running into hundred and potentially billions of dollars.
I lived in Warri and there was never a time when the refineries worked during the contracts were given to Emeka Offor companies.
This man is one of the greatest enemies of the country and is reponsible for why we still import fuel. Nigerians know your enemies that sabotaged your country and used the funds to buy private jets and give crumbs to the masses.[/size]

Please provide empirical evidence to prove your facts not some beer parlous discussion.

We know the gullible and where they pick their news from...please do basic study on who Emeka Offor is before spewing gutter on us.

masam:
Abeg oga lawyer park well...tell Emma offor and his dubious CEO Fred Udechukwu to go and pay Globalscan staff their severance package being owed them since the end on destination inspection contract DEC. 2013. The poor families are starving and struggling for survival. leave all this praise singing of Emeka offor all na wash.

Send the list of those starving and struggling for survival to us for immediate action.

InyinyaAgbaOku:

Änd How is that the business of Sahara deserters?

Yele Sowore sending riff raffs to defend his unprofessionalism and greed to survive.

There's dignity is honest labour