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How The Ford Foundation and The MacArthur Foundation Are Helping Omoyele Sowore Blackmail People and Ruin Lives

Sahara Reporters wrote a story alleging that I was an armed robber, who robbed a house in Warri, Delta State, and stole money for use in the coming 2015 elections, which was to hold ‪in two weeks‬.

I was aghast! No one has ever accused me of stealing money in government, let alone with arms. I had not been to Warri in years. The last time I went there was in 2012 when I had a meeting with Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor about evangelism. I felt it had to be a mistake.

So, I wrote to Omoyele Sowore telling him he was mistaken. I gave him the facts. I showed him logs from Aso Rock, where I worked, proving that on the date and time he alleged I was robbing a house, I was in my office. I gave the names of a woman who was once an editor, who had met with me on the day in question. I provided evidence that on the evening of the day in question I preached the word of God at a local church I pastored in Abuja and also had a meeting with a pastor of a well known church on the same day. He ignored my mails. No response. The 2015 Nigerian Presidential election was ‪in two weeks‬, and the story made my boss, President Jonathan look bad (which was the intention of the story).

Why would you write a story like that without even verifying whether it was true or not? Both Sowore and his organisation had my contact details. Sowore has phoned me before. He knew how to reach me. How can you write such a damaging story without first reaching out to the person you are writing about? It goes against the ethics of responsible journalism, which says hear both sides, and when in doubt, leave out.

I quickly engaged a lawyer and sued the man Sahara Reporters mentioned in their story as accusing me of armed robbery. At court, the man swore to an affidavit that he never made such allegations against me to Sahara Reporters and he does not know how they arrived at their claims.

I then sent the affidavits he swore to, to Saharareporters and Omoyele Sowore and they ignored it. The traditional print media carried the story of the denial by the man cited by Sahara Reporters. Yet, both Sowore and his organisation refused to either take the story down or apologise.

I then sued Sahara Reporters in Nigeria, but they dodged service of court papers. So, I travelled to the United States and engaged two lawyers, one in New York and one in California.

I was almost financially ruined. I had difficulty paying my mortgage because of the astronomical cost of hiring a lawyer in America (they bill by the hour). I had to stop work on the orphanage project and focused entirely on fighting to clear my name. My children were too ashamed to go to school because I live in a small Christian community in California. The people in our church had read the story, and I was the subject of malicious gossip. Eventually, I had to leave the church. I was scandalised in the community.

The lawyer in New York wrote Sowore and appealed to him to remove the story and explained to him how financially draining this case could be for both him and I. Sowore would not budge and it looked like I may have had to remortgage my house to get the funds to pay for a long legal battle.

Eventually, the lawyer in New York was able to discover that The Ford Foundation was sponsoring Saharareporters. So, he wrote to them and presented the facts to them. Then, and only then, did Sowore take the story down. He did not do this because he wanted to. He did it, only because he did not want his money threatened.

No wonder everything na protest, no one should die in sowores war

Sowore receives 6,666,182,973.00 Naira from US based organisations to do what in Nigeria?

Professional services fees. Yele you collected (over 6billion Naira) your own from MacArthur Foundation to lead protests year in year out.

Who asked you?

amaniluka:
Call now

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leksbore:
nothing everything is in good condition.

Do you swap?

Judolisco:
una no dey gree hear word... The road you jst mentioned is a federal road and not a state road

They're internal state roads... Used by taxpayers and voters. Face your state.

Judolisco:
ekiti internal roads are good.... D roads that leads to ekiti are Federal roads... D one from kabba or iyamoye na Federal road... D one from kwara as well.... Ekiti get good roads compared to other states.... As for unemployment, when I was serving there, I saw alot of employment opportunities but youths no Wan work, a lot of palm trees and cocoa jst dey waste.... And I also noticed the elderly ones were more educated and can speak good English than the young ones

Shut up. Is it FG that passes through igede to erio to aramoko to itawure?
BAO should sit up and do the job instead of political jubilating over the place... what will it cost him to open up emirin-housing road that needs only a bridge to replace the collapsed one?

Don't annoy me this morning.

Bobloco:
Thunder 🔥 wike the drunkard

Your medulla oblongata engine oil needs replacement

Habbeyy:
may be that's part of the remaining 10% or what do you think?

The potholes on that road will swallow a Toyota Sequoia.... And it stretches across about four major communities

Brilliancepower:
These are the disadvantages of operating a baby factory business. Those boys are grown up and they have no family attachments.

On point

KevMitnick:
And what should happen to the states housing bandits in their forests?
What about the states with kidnappers in their bushes? Shouldn't they be flattened too?
I hope you can see that common sense is very far from you. Sometimes it's good that you keep quiet so that we don't discover how stuppid you are.

Swerve ipob
All must be flattened

Global2000:
Is he the governor of the state?. Atimes you agbadorian's can misyan. He can only suggest.

Unfortunately ain't no agbadorian... Peter Obi should step up his leadership in his home State not jumping around to bail Dele Farotimi

Inspectorsuga22:
First may God seize your breath

Nonsense talk. This your statement must backfire by fire in Jesus name

barika2011:
Nonsense. Talk...did tinubu resolve the street touts or crimes in Lagos before he became president...
I repeat nonsense talk....

Agbero for Lagos na traditional ruler for Anambra

Beuberry:
high crime rate nationwide

No only in ipob domains

Federal Government should flatten this recalcitrant State.... Make we hear word.


If Peter Obi cannot resolve his home State banditry issues, he's not fit for Nigerian Presidency. Charity begins at home.

Beuberry:
Una dey maaaad

You see? Just like zelensky... No relational skills..

Merry Christmas to President Vladimir Putin. I salute your resilience in the face of wanton provocation. You're indeed a great man.

Oga the road to your local government area is a deathtrap. Charity begins at home!!

Originalsly:
Hmmm .... plane shot by Russian surface to air missile .. only the skin was damaged. Was the plane armoured?

I tire. Russian shot down Ukrainian drones attacking Grozny.... It is believed a shrapnel of the invasive drones hit the unfortunate plane

Proven Ukraine is responsible for the unfortunate events....

A passenger plane of Azerbaijan Airlines crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau because it was attacked by Russian air defense, Euronews reports.

According to Azerbaijani government sources, the Russians hit the plane with a surface-to-air missile.

Euronews' interlocutors clarify that the missile was fired at the plane while it was flying over Grozny, where drone activity was recorded. It exploded near the plane, and its fragments hit passengers and crew members.

Also, according to journalists' sources, the damaged plane was not allowed to land at Russian airports when the pilots requested an emergency landing. The plane was ordered to fly across the Caspian Sea toward Aktau.

Euronews found out that the plane's GPS navigation system was jammed throughout the flight over the sea.

Afterward, photos were posted online showing that the plane's skin was damaged by shrapnel.

Against this background, the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Andrii Kovalenko, emphasized that the plane was shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile system.

This happened because the Russians did not close the airspace over Grozny during the Ukrainian drone attack on the city.

chronique:
Are you really for real or you are trying to be mischievous? There was a drone attack on Gronzy at exactly the same time the plane was in Russian airspace and the drone attack by the Ukrainians on the Russian city of Gronzy was being repelled. That's an accident that wil' happen a million times if drone attacks are happening against Israel or America and a civilian aircraft is in the airspace at that time.

Chubhie:
Ukrainian source. Always seeking to drag the world in WW3

Exactly. I don't trust any news from Ukraine media

Dalohad:
This does not look good on the Russians..

Definitely a false accusation

Botragelad:
Yeah. Please read the post carefully. Russia has shot down many civilian planes in the past few years. Just like Iran!

Lies

Amen

Umuinyioku:
Irefin died because of bullet wounds he received from the freedom fighters.

He must be regretting in his grave why he followed rascal Wike to fight a people fighting for freedom and independence.

Liar. Not true

Richtaiwo:
We want the minister to...
The minister should....
We want the minister to...

So the minister is a spirit that should know what you want without you previously informing him?

I kukuma trust Wike, he will give you that training you lack. If you are in doubt, ask ipob miscreants what their eyes saw when they attempted to export terrorism to Rivers State.

That was a landmark clearing action by the Nigerian army 6 Div under the late Maj Gen JO Irefin. A battle tested and gallant officer

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What needs fixing

Have you sought audience with him before embarking on threats... Workplace conflict has processes... unless you're acting the script of some detractors. I trust Wike to ignore you. Go back to the basics and start from there.

No where in your write-up says you have sought audience with the office of the minister or the minister himself....so why threats?