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Nigerian pastors are accused of prospering while their congregants continue to suffer in poverty. What is your take on this?

Well, let me begin like this, this is a major issue, especially now that I have just been presented with a gift of a jet. That makes it a major issue. Let me say here that every pastor must be conscious of the people he pastors. It is very important. I can tell you that as a pastor for 40 years now, if you talk to people that are genuinely my members, they will tell you the kind of pastor that am I.

If you watched me today, I was talking about a young man who has been trying to go to a university for three years now. I didn't know him from Adam. One day, after a service here, one of my pastors brought him to me. As soon as he saw me, he held my legs and began to cry! He showed me all the papers, pleading that he had tried to gain admission to any university here, it never worked.

So he finally got admission to study in Cyprus. I paid his school fees, helped him with ticket and everything he needed, he's gone. He has since resumed school and is there in Cyprus now. How many people will know that? In the last s

even to eight years now, I have paid school fees of over 100 people in different universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.

Some of them have graduated and have come here to share their testimonies, excitements and even their parents have come here to thank us. I don't know them from anywhere. Every December 26, I do a very big thing here. We call it poverty alleviation.

This year, December 26, we will equally do it. Last December 26, I gave out about six brand new cars to people; your denomination means nothing. Whether you are a Muslim or a native doctor means nothing here. What qualifies you is if you are a human being. I gave out 25 tricycles, about 100 sewing machines, and grinding machines.

Some of these people come here to give testimonies; some are now married and have children. There was this young boy, a Moslem from Auchi. This young man, nothing good was coming out of his life, he was rejected, nobody wanted him and one of our pastors took him into a teaching centre and he was sleeping in the teaching centre. They were helping him. This boy had driver's licence, I don't know how he got it. He had no job and couldn't do anything.

Last two years, when we were doing the poverty alleviation, he applied. And they brought out a name which happened to be this boy's and he won a brand new car. Today, that boy has rented his own house; in fact, his parents who are Muslims came to church on a Sunday and worshipped with me and danced all over the place and, after the service, they came to me and thanked me, saying 'oh, this boy that you don't even know from anywhere, you dashed him a car.'

They were very happy. Besides that, many lives have been transformed here. We have changed many lives. We have an orphanage here. As we are talking, an American couple has gotten in touch with me. They want to adopt a child from our orphanage. We have a clinic here that hopefully will develop into a full blown hospital. People go there and pay little something for treatment, but generally on Sundays people are treated free.

These are some of the things we do. Most people don't know this and I don't think I am the only pastor doing this. So a lot of people who are saying this against pastors are just being mischievous. They may have their reasons, some of them are bitter about something and they are not telling the full story about what is making them bitter.

But like I said, a good pastor must be concerned about his people. We have buses that we use in carrying people. If I tell you some of the things that we used to do, it will shock you. There is a woman in my church, when she came to this church, she had probably two blouses and a wrapper, no slippers, not even bathroom slippers.

She had never entered a classroom before. I didn't even know her. She is from one of these oil bearing communities. There was a time an oil company in their community wanted to do business with them and she was interested but had no money. She came to us for assistance. I don't think, at that time, she had ever seen N10,000 in her life.

So she went to our micro-finance bank, Mama (my wife) runs it without salary, she and all our directors don't earn one naira. She went to the bank and said she wanted to borrow money. My wife asked her; `how much do you have in your account', and she said, I don't even have an account'.

My wife looked at her, and she called me about it and I said, `look, leave me out of it'. We didn't even have that kind of money at that time. She asked the woman again, `how much do you have now and the woman said N2,000′. She now advised her to use that money to open an account and she did. Mama now went round to source for the amount.

The short story here is that she got the money, did her business and in less than six months, she paid back the money she collected. As we speak now, she is one of the richest women in Warri. She bought me an incredible car that cost millions of naira some years ago.

Coming to the issue of jet, I had no single idea of how it came about. It is true that people like us have gotten to a point where we need to have means of movement that will help us. You may have heard me speak about my trip to Indonesia, to Jakarta.

In fact, it wasn't even Jakarta I was going to, but I had to stay inside an airport in Jakarta for five hours to wait for my flight, to get to the very city I was going. I was only going to preach for two hours there. I flew from Lagos to Dubai and I spent over three hours, changed flight to fly to Jakarta and then stayed five hours at the airport just to catch a flight to where I was going to, where I was to preach for just two hours.

And after everything, I got a flight from that place again to Jakarta, stayed at the airport again for another five hours, then flew into Dubai, stayed again at the airport for another three hours before I flew into Lagos. It took me four days to make a journey to preach for two hours. I'm a human being and I am not getting younger every day.

And locally, it is worse, for instance, the acting General Secretary of CAN lost his father in a place outside Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and I had to be there. I preached in a place in Lagos on a Friday and needed to be back to Warri on a Saturday, but at the end of the day, the plane that would have taken me was no where.

I had to charter a plane for N3.5 million to take me to Uyo, waited for me to finish and then take me back to Warri. Two weeks ago, a young pastor in Port Harcourt built a new church and had been on me all this while to come and dedicate the church and suddenly from no where, there was this flood that cut off the road to Port Harcourt.

There is no road now to Port Harcourt. If you want to go by road now, it takes you up to 12 hours to get to Port Harcourt and I had to preach in Port Harcourt, I had to preach in Lagos, I had to preach in Abuja and other places. Finally, I was able to find my way to Port Harcourt, it was on a Saturday.

I had to get to Warri that Saturday so as to be able to preach the next day, Sunday. Do you know what I had to finally do? I chartered a helicopter that cost me N2 million to drop me in Warri. When they dropped me here, ah, I can't tell you how I felt that I had to part with that sum. But I had promised the young man and the church and if I had said no, will it be right? I can go on and on and on.

So, sometimes, my schedule is so complicated. Now, with this plane, it changes everything about my movements. Now, I can move, I can even go and come back home. It is a bit more convenient for me and I suspect that this is one of the reasons a lot of these other preachers have planes.

Does your congregation understand all these engagements?

They do. They feel the pain I go through and they feel painful for not seeing me most of the time. They don't like it, they are troubled. I know some people buy planes, I can't buy plane. I can't afford it. I don't have that kind of money, I still don't know the people that bought this plane, but I know that there is a committee.

I hope you will get to meet with some of the people in that committee, I don't know them. My wife is more involved with them. She (my wife) never talked to me, (about it) and she was acting strange. Well, I don't want to get involved in this. This is my story about the plane. And I'm not ashamed to own a plane, I think it is a necessity and not a luxury for some of us deeply involved in the work of God to own planes.

My take......Jet setting Pastors in reality

Waiting at the airport,fly from one place to another is not an excuse at all.......

What makes the Pastors so special that they cant wait at the airport..........Atleast most airport have VIP lounge.

Do nairalander buy his excuse or not?

This Pastor is giving excuses the same way politicians used to give us excuse.

Nigerian Pastors and Politicians = Same of the same.

Any time an interview subject begins their response to a simple question by beating about the bush and first of all thanking the interviewer for a good question posed, before launching into an abridged history of the human race from the ice age until the present, then you KNOW that some seriously deep bullchit is about to be shoveled up, and this money-grubbing pastor's meandering response is a fine example of that.

One imagines that this man would have the same sort of response if he got busted on the down-stroke with another man's wife.

Enraged husband holding machette : " Who the phuck are you, and what is your mission on top of my wife ?

Philandering Pastor: " Thank you for this question, my son. God bless you, for you have correctly identified my modality here as the Missionary Position, which dates back to Africa's dark age when foreign missionaries arrived in what was then known as the Dark Continent, in order to introduce the natives to civilized behavior, of which the Missionary Position is one of the very first lessons taught to women-folk who had previously only ever been exposed to the Doggie Style modality..."

Husband " " Shut the phuck up, you philandering scum-bag. You think you can talk your way out of being caught boning my wife ? You must be mad. Prepare to die, right now, you sorry piece of chit."

Now nervous pastor : " I appeal to you in Jeeeesus name, that the weapon in your hand should not manifest its presence on my cranium, for it is from within this very cranium that some of the most potent prayers known to man were created, and it is these lips, having just ministered to your beautiful wife, that can now intone a prayer that will bring you lasting wealth and prosperity, in Jeeesus name, PROVIDED THAT you allow me to get dressed in my Holy Robes in order to save your soul from the sin of pointless anger and AAAAAAAARGH !"

Husband : "Calm down, Mr. Pastor, I only cut you once on the leg, and you are screaming like a stuck pig. Please show some dignity. I expected better than this from a Man of Dog like you, especially since you know I am about to send you straight to Jesus where you belong."

Desperate Pastor : "Oga I beg. I nogo come for ya house again. I nogo nak ya wife again. Just let me wear my pant only and go home now. I beg."

^^^^^^

Jakumo don make me spill my morning coffee.

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Vanguard newspaper said something about casino christianity, this is a typical example. Flimsy reasons for living an extremely luxurious lifestyle at the expense of poor, misguided followers. Man-of-dog indeed.

Casinos Pastors need airplane to get closer to God.

I bet that's why God answered them more.

The more this tout labours hard to justify this so called gift of private jet, the more stuupid his explanation get. Who sent you to go preach in Indonesia? Are there no pastors in that country? So puerile an explanation. Nobody should feel bad when the jets of these scammers start dropping out of the sky. And that has started with Gov Suntai.

OYINBOGOJU: My take......Jet setting Pastors in reality

Waiting at the airport,fly from one place to another is not an excuse at all.......

What makes the Pastors so special that they cant wait at the airport..........Atleast most airport have VIP lounge.

Do nairalander buy his excuse or not?

I bought his excuse my friend!!. You are poor and doesn't understand the need for convinient( insult and personalization not intended) dosn't mean everybody must think or act like you. Why so much noise about this jet? Are many Nigerians not owning jets and who said some few obedient flocks cannot afford it for him. I am ok, with his rhetorics ,let us rest this issue

floriana: The more this tout labours hard to justify this so called gift of private jet, the more stuupid his explanation get. Who sent you to go preach in Indonesia? Are there no pastors in that country? So puerile an explanation. Nobody should feel bad when the jets of these scammers start dropping out of the sky. And that has started with Gov Suntai.

Nobody sent him but he had an obligation as a pastor to do so. The problem with some of you guys playing this issue off the roof is deep seated jealousy. Go and buy your own!

Jakumo: Any time an interview subject begins their response to a simple question by beating about the bush and first of all thanking the interviewer for a good question posed, before launching into an abridged history of the human race from the ice age until the present, then you KNOW that some seriously deep bullchit is about to be shoveled up, and this money-grubbing pastor's meandering response is a fine example of that.

One imagines that this man would have the same sort of response if he got busted on the down-stroke with another man's wife.

Enraged husband holding machette : " Who the phuck are you, and what is your mission on top of my wife ?

Philandering Pastor: " Thank you for this question, my son. God bless you, for you have correctly identified my modality here as the Missionary Position, which dates back to Africa's dark age when foreign missionaries arrived in what was then known as the Dark Continent, in order to introduce the natives to civilized behavior, of which the Missionary Position is one of the very first lessons taught to women-folk who had previously only ever been exposed to the Doggie Style modality..."

Husband " " Shut the phuck up, you philandering scum-bag. You think you can talk your way out of being caught boning my wife ? You must be mad. Prepare to die, right now, you sorry piece of chit."

Now nervous pastor : " I appeal to you in Jeeeesus name, that the weapon in your hand should not manifest its presence on my cranium, for it is from within this very cranium that some of the most potent prayers known to man were created, and it is these lips, having just ministered to your beautiful wife, that can now intone a prayer that will bring you lasting wealth and prosperity, in Jeeesus name, PROVIDED THAT you allow me to get dressed in my Holy Robes in order to save your soul from the sin of pointless anger and AAAAAAAARGH !"

Husband : "Calm down, Mr. Pastor, I only cut you once on the leg, and you are screaming like a stuck pig. Please show some dignity. I expected better than this from a Man of Dog like you, especially since you know I am about to send you straight to Jesus where you belong."

Desperate Pastor : "Oga I beg. I nogo come for ya house again. I nogo nak ya wife again. Just let me wear my pant only and go home now. I beg."

LWKMD.. Pls , go enrol for a comedy show

floriana: The more this tout labours hard to justify this so called gift of private jet, the more stuupid his explanation get. Who sent you to go preach in Indonesia? Are there no pastors in that country? So puerile an explanation. Nobody should feel bad when the jets of these scammers start dropping out of the sky. And that has started with Gov Suntai.

Waiting for their jets to start dropping? U will wait tire!!!

What folks like you dont understand is that: These pastors have valid reasons for owning a jet! And Pastor Ayo is not even buying this with his own money either has he any idea about a jet coming his way. Ok, they give you a jet, U ll refuse to accept it? Hypocrites Nigerians! Go after your Govt and leave the pastors alone!

Politicians re busy stealing our commonwealth, you re here waiting for plan crash?? Funny o...

Jetting in private jet is against the moral value of any Pastor.

You people can claim someone bought the jet but can you tell us who pays for the maintainance of the jet?

Can you tell us who pays for the parking of the jet?

Can you also point out how much it cost to maintain the 2 pillots in 1 month?

Add all these expenses together and tell me how much it is in One Month.

How would you guys feel if the same money is used to create orphanage home and give them free education atleast it will require less expenses than private jet?

Now which one is better.

Jakumo: Any time an interview subject begins their response to a simple question by beating about the bush and first of all thanking the interviewer for a good question posed, before launching into an abridged history of the human race from the ice age until the present, then you KNOW that some seriously deep bullchit is about to be shoveled up, and this money-grubbing pastor's meandering response is a fine example of that.

One imagines that this man would have the same sort of response if he got busted on the down-stroke with another man's wife.

Enraged husband holding machette : " Who the phuck are you, and what is your mission on top of my wife ?

Philandering Pastor: " Thank you for this question, my son. God bless you, for you have correctly identified my modality here as the Missionary Position, which dates back to Africa's dark age when foreign missionaries arrived in what was then known as the Dark Continent, in order to introduce the natives to civilized behavior, of which the Missionary Position is one of the very first lessons taught to women-folk who had previously only ever been exposed to the Doggie Style modality..."

Husband " " Shut the phuck up, you philandering scum-bag. You think you can talk your way out of being caught boning my wife ? You must be mad. Prepare to die, right now, you sorry piece of chit."

Now nervous pastor : " I appeal to you in Jeeeesus name, that the weapon in your hand should not manifest its presence on my cranium, for it is from within this very cranium that some of the most potent prayers known to man were created, and it is these lips, having just ministered to your beautiful wife, that can now intone a prayer that will bring you lasting wealth and prosperity, in Jeeesus name, PROVIDED THAT you allow me to get dressed in my Holy Robes in order to save your soul from the sin of pointless anger and AAAAAAAARGH !"

Husband : "Calm down, Mr. Pastor, I only cut you once on the leg, and you are screaming like a stuck pig. Please show some dignity. I expected better than this from a Man of Dog like you, especially since you know I am about to send you straight to Jesus where you belong."

Desperate Pastor : "Oga I beg. I nogo come for ya house again. I nogo nak ya wife again. Just let me wear my pant only and go home now. I beg."

Apart from your hatred for Buhari, you my guy are the bomb, this gave me a very good LOL.

Has Oritsajafor contributed anything to the development of Warri?

Spiritual 419

Prof Corruption: Spiritual 419

Church members are accomplice.