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Who Is Afraid of Daddy Freeze?, By Femi Aribisala
Premium Times December 10, 2017 Who Is Afraid of Daddy Freeze?, By Femi Aribisala2017-12-10T02:30:16+00:00 Article of Faith, Columns, Faith Comment (6)

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The fear of Daddy Freeze is the beginning of mischief in Nigerian churches.


Nothing in recent memory seems to have affected the bank-balances of Nigerian pastors as Daddy Freeze’s exposure of the deception of tithing in churches. Nigerian tithe-collecting pastors are up in arms, throwing every possible missile at him, including death threats. Jesus says: “Whoever desires to save his life will lose it.” (Matthew 16:25). Since Freeze’s exposure, tithe-collecting pastors have been spouting fire and brimstone, hopelessly trying to save their lives.

Death Threats

The assault on Freeze brings to mind the assault of Jewish pastors on Jesus when he also exposed their deception and hypocrisy. The upshot of this was the decision to have Jesus killed with extreme prejudice. Similarly, Daddy Freeze says a pastor, whose church he attended for 11 good tithe-paying years, has placed a death sentence on him for preaching against tithing. The pastor “prophesied” that Freeze would die within two years.

Jesus says: “An evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” (Luke 6:45). You can easily tell that this so-called pastor is a charlatan masquerading as a child of God. Not only does he curse his enemies contrary to the way of Christ, even his curses are fake. Otherwise, why wait for two years for Freeze to die? Why not kill him right now?

Apostle Suleiman

Perhaps that anonymous pastor learnt a lesson from another endangered tithe-collector: self-styled Apostle Suleiman. The “apostle” exposed himself by foolishly prophesying that Nasir El-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State, would die within two weeks. Unfortunately for him, the governor obstinately refused to die.

“Apostle” Suleiman was so riled up over Daddy Freeze’s preachments against tithing, he announced the decision to raise his tithe from 10 percent to 30 percent in retaliation. Clearly, the “apostle” needs to go back to bible school. So doing, he would learn that a tithe is 10 percent and can never be 30 percent.

Rather than boast publicly about fictitious increases in his tithes, his eminence the “apostle” should endeavour to listen to Jesus: “Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 6:1). “When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6:3-4).

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Paul Adefarasin

On his part, tithe-collecting Paul Adefarasin took the whole debate to stratospheric levels, the better to make tithing unassailable to fastidious bible scholars. He said: “God created the universe, he took a tithe: the Milky Way. God created the Milky Way, he took a tithe: the Galaxy. God created the Galaxy, he took a tithe: our Solar System. God created the Solar System, he took a tithe: Planet Earth. God created the Planet Earth, he took a tithe: Israel. God created Israel, he took a tithe: Jerusalem.”

At this juncture, I began to wonder if it could equally be postulated that God created Lagos, he took a tithe: Adefarasin’s House on the Rock! Who ever heard of God paying tithes? By the time the erudite pastor waxed lyrical and refashioned Jesus as: “a tithe, holding a tithe, going into a tithe,” his congregation could not bear it any longer. They burst into wild applause which I took to mean: “This pastor of ours is just too much!”

Matthew Ashimolowo

But the response to Freeze that took the cake came from Matthew Ashimolowo of Kingsway International Christian Centre. He felt so threatened by Daddy Freeze, he dropped his mask of holiness and became abusive. He told Daddy Freeze to “Shut up!”

Said Ashimolowo “ex cathedra:” “Some bunch of yoyo somewhere should not determine what we believe. Some guy who beats his wife, throws her out, throws his children out of the house should not determine what we believe. Not only that, he broke his own son’s knees while trying to defend his wife. Not only that, he drinks alcohol, sleeps with women and he is trying to preach to preacher?”

But, while we are on the subject, should Ashimolowo himself be telling anybody what to believe? Not according to Jesus.

Jesus says: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3-5).

Ashimolowo”s hypocrisy is mind-boggling. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Wealth Transfer

Some years back, Ashimolowo advertised a crusade in Port Harcourt, captioned “The Coming Wealth Transfer.” This was based on the spurious pie-in-the-sky notion that God is soon going to transfer the wealth of non-Christians to Christians.

However, officials of the Charity Commission in England, an organisation which routinely polices the affairs of nominally non-profit organisations including churches, detected a more genuine wealth transfer taking place in Ashimolowo’s KICC. That wealth transfer was not from God to the members of Ashimolowo’s church: it was from members of the church to Ashimolowo.

The Commission discovered “serious misconduct and mismanagement” in the finances of KICC. It alleged that hundreds of thousands of pounds were dubiously transferred overseas. A £120,000 birthday party was given for Ashimolowo, out of which £80,000 was used to buy him a spanking Mercedes Benz. It was also reported that Ashimolowo used the church’s visa card to buy a timeshare apartment in Florida.

Should a man with this questionable CV tell Christians what they should believe and give? You be the judge.

The Commission maintained Ashimolowo acted as both trustee and paid employee of KICC, in contravention of British charity law. He allegedly approved suspicious payments and benefits to himself and his wife made to his private companies operated illegally from church premises. As a result of these irregularities, KICC was placed in the hands of receivers, new trustee managers were appointed and Ashimolowo was asked to repay £200,000 to the church.

The upshot of this was that Ashimolowo relocated temporarily to Nigeria, where he started preaching about “Sweat-less Wealth,” and “Twenty-Four Hour Miracles.” The latter required the gullible to give their monies, cars, televisions, stereos, cell-phones and even the Certificates of Occupancy of their houses to preachers in order to receive fictitious financial windfalls from heaven within 24 hours. A few of my acquaintances were scammed at these 419 “crusades.”

Deceived-deceivers

God says: “Among my people are found wicked men; they lie in wait as one who sets snares; they set a trap; they catch men.” (Jeremiah 5:26). Daddy Freeze has put these tithe-collecting fraudsters on the warpath, fighting to defend their bank-balances. Surely, he did not expect them to surrender their meal-tickets without a fight.

Who is afraid of Daddy Freeze? Thief- and robber-pastors. The fear of Daddy Freeze is the beginning of mischief in Nigerian churches.

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so Wike should out spend him? and why have Wike not gone to court to show cause why the money should not be forfeited to the federal government

yanshDoctor:
but amechi spent more than this during APC. even the ekuyigate funds is believe to be rivers state money

so until he boost before you can see any reasoning in this discus

gratieao:
Op is a pained APC agent. How did Amaechi used to installed the calamity called Buhari. A least Wike have not boosted to match other contestants dollar for dollar like Amechi during APC primary

spotted IPOD

opuada331:
hahahahahah liessss... Apc failures,hope lie Mohammed no teach you well

who told you no evidence? PDP faithfuls are bragging and boasting about it, you are here look for evidence, i have 4 friends in ABJ who are there as delegates

Headlaw:
Beware of what u feed the public with....u may not have evidence to back this up. Nairaland Members will not safe u when they come for u. A word is enough for the wise.

yes it is because i pay my tax and other levies to Rivers state government instead of using the money to put my Oyigbo in order, he is busy building castle in the air. please leave politics out of this for once and investigate if what i am saying is true or not.

Blizzy9ja:
Is it your money? You havent done a conprehensive break down of how Amaechi single handedly got us into this mess of a govt with Rivers state money after constructing a monorail to nowhere

Bode George just withdrew from the race for the same reasons, he can't afford 10,000 dollars to compete with wike/secondus

Promxy94:
How sure are you?

HOW WIKE BOUGHT PDP:
• Spends 15.5billion naira to finance Secondus, PDP Convention
• Reminds PDP stakeholders that he paid 7billion naira to secure judgment for Makarfi
• Gave 6 Govs 1B Naira each to support Secondus
• Paid Makarfi 2.5B cash & Contracts
• Paid 3 members of PDP CTC 500m
• Paid each party chairman 5m
• Each delegate to get $10,000 to vote Secondus

Indications have emerged that Governor Nyesom Wike may likely have his candidate, Uche Secondus installed as PDP National Chairman at the party's convention scheduled for tomorrow Saturday 9th December.

Reports show that the Governor has spent a minimum sum of 15b naira to sponsor the convention. The Governor is also reported to have bought up almost everybody of influence in the PDP.
The recent outbursts of former military President Ibrahim Babangida, Chief Bode George, Ebenezer Babatope and other stakeholders especially from the South West against the PDP National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Sen.Ahmed Makarfi is connected to the fact that Gov. Wike is single handedly funding the Convention with a whopping 15.5b naira. This is aside the offers he made influential members of the party including its National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi who recently picked up 2.5b naira cash and a multi billion naira contract alongside 3 other important members of the Committee who also got at least 500m each from the Rivers Governor.

The Governor was also said to have reminded the party stakeholders how he spent over 7billion naira in securing judgment for the Sen. Makarfi faction of the party against Sen.Modu Sheriff at the Supreme Court.

To show his seriousness in securing the party's top post, Governor Wike is reported to have given each Northern PDP State Chairman 5m naira each and has budgeted $10,000 for each delegate who votes his candidate, Uche Secondus.

The Governor, who is derisively referred to as The Port Harcourt ATM by party top stakeholders on account of his huge financial inducement is leaving no stone un-turned in acquiring the PDP ahead of the 2019 general elections.

The Governor had earlier promised to support Atiku Abubakar's Presidential ambition but later appeared to be backing down on the promise, prompting a surprising visit from former President Goodluck Jonathan who is one of Atiku's strongest backers.

Governor Wike has a reputation of heavy financial inducements, his name had cropped up at every bribery saga since 2015. He was caught on tape compromising and threatening INEC officials who were in the state to conduct the several re-run elections held recently.

Meanwhile back home in Rivers State, the government is owing a lot of backlog in arrears and pensions including over 24 and 7months owed staff of Rivers State Sustainable Dev.Agency and GPH Agency respectively. The Governor is also known for embarking on low-value projects spiced up with massive media coverage.

As it stands now, it will take a miracle for anybody in the party to meet Wike's huge financial war chest.

Tamass:
Some unscruplous elements just causing unnecessary panic anyhow all in the name of defaming the government... shun racism and tribalism..only then can we move forward

and xenophobia

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is their a tribe known as biafra in the annals of history

Dedetwo:
It is a shame you canto even acclaim your ethnicity from your obscure hideout. Only a fool would address him/her self as Niger Deltan. I must say such idiotic crap does not exist.

Edu3Again:
How come they are illiterates and have the highest cutoff marks in Nigeria?

If they are illiterates how come they put the word "RESTRUCTURE" on everybodys lips

how come the same illiterates what to exit Nigeria and the whole North trembles ?

what are the numbers

After playing politics with Rivers State boundaries, and oil wells belonging to Rivers people ceded to Bayelsa just to punish the Amaechi government, Wike is now requesting for boundary adjustment.what is good for chichi is good for Ebere.
https://twitter.com/TheReflectorNG/status/910368420406992898

Spain's Guardia Civil police have detained a senior Catalan official and raided regional government ministries involved in organising a banned independence vote.

Tensions were already high before the arrest of Josep Maria Jové, secretary-general of the Catalan vice presidency.

Catalan leaders are defying a court order to halt the vote, condemned by the Madrid government as illegal.

One official called for peaceful resistance to protect the buildings.

"The time has come - let's resist peacefully; let's come out and defend our institutions," the president of the Catalan National Assembly, Jordi Sánchez, tweeted.

The economy, foreign affairs and presidency buildings were all targeted early on Wednesday, 11 days before the referendum.

The detained official's boss, Catalan Vice-President Oriol Junqueras, accused Spanish police of attacking the region's institutions and therefore its citizens too. "We will not allow it," he said.

The night before, Spanish police discovered a mass of documents directly related to the banned vote.

Catalan police officers, on patrol outside the building in Terrassa, scuffled with pro-secession protesters trying to block the street outside.

The Catalan government is trying to organise the 1 October referendum, in the face of determined resistance by the national government to prevent it going ahead.

The Madrid government has been backed up by Spain's Constitutional Court, which suspended the referendum law passed by the Catalan parliament.

https://twitter.com/Momonny1/status/910424772818939904

The Nigerian Army won't kill me with laugh, try to be nice after that show of dominance. wonders shall never end.
https://twitter.com/Mr_JAGs/status/908633999580549120

thank you for your observation English teacher who cheated to pass his English exams. for crying out loud you can't claim human right when your intentions is to put over 100million Igbos and Christians in the east and other part of the country in harms way because you want sovereignty. please you and your Ipod leader really needs medical help.

Billyonaire:
Learn to spell then learn to manage your common animal instinct which is emotion.

After which, you need to learn be human before being Nigerian

No body hate Igbos rather you hate everybody including yourself stop blaming everybody and purge yourself of your self hate before accusing every body.;

Betmaster3:
What's so special about Nigeria. What baffles me is that these people making noise here will jump at the opportunity of leaving this hell of a country for another country if given the chance. But no, just because they hate Igbos, they're agitating for them to be killed. When the war starts, e go reach everywhere oooo. Everybody go hear am oooo. So you guys think the war will be fought in the south east alone. I Just dey laugh, I don talk my own

In DOKUBO-ASARI V. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (2007) ALL FWLR (PT 375) 588, The Supreme Court per Muhammed JSC (CJN Rtd.) had the following to say:

"Where national security is threatened or there is real likelihood of it being threatened, human rights or individual rights of those responsible take second place. Human Rights or individual rights must be suspended until national security can be protected or taken care of. This is not anything new. The corporate existence of Nigeria as a united, harmonious, indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation is certainly greater than any citizen's liberty or right. Once the security of this nation is in jeopardy and it survives in pieces rather than in peace, the individual liberty or right may not even exist."

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perez100:
I am Igbo and not IPOB member. But you cannot kill IPOB members and expect me to be happy. I must be forced to identify with them. IPOB never killed one soul since inception.

IPOB'S PYTHON DANCE a short note by Uche Nnadozie

"They arranged a bail for him with conditions. He spurned all the conditions and dared the government. Ohaneze did not say anything, Abia state government did not say anything, South East governors did not say anything. All the abroadians and "intellectuals" who live in Abuja, PH, Lagos, etc did not say anything.

As soon as he threatened the upcoming Anambra elections, Ohaneze said something. Anambra state government said something. South East governors said something. Because a pot of soup had been threatened. They even called him to a meeting. But he maintained his cocky stand.

He turned around in a bid to continue to be in the news, decided to launch a Security Service. Asked his supporters to burn down the country; Ohaneze, Abia state, south east governors did not say anything. If anything at all, they aided him as according to them he was expressing his rights.

Before now, the veepee called everyone to a meeting. Good man, he tried to approach the matter with gumption. You expected some caution from the other side. No! They made the veepee look stupid. Kanu continued his PDP and Igbo elite sponsored defiance. Kanu did not only carry on with his haughtiness, he disgraced the police everywhere he went.

Then the military steps in, Ohaneze begins to lecture me on Human Rights? Abia state begins to speak up. All in Support of Kanu and IPOB. Nevertheless, the federal government must realize that PDP/IPOB does not own Igboland and as such cannot determine where it's allegiance lie.

Let all processes (legal) be taken to protect the integrity of the country as there is no country called Biafra. And Nigerians living in Igboland need to be protected by the Nigerian state, now. The country should no longer tolerate megaphones who seize the destiny of part of the country on a warped agenda called political/secessionist agitation."

Uche Nnadozie

spotted, you are busy looking for typo and spelling errors and refused to read as usual. flat head

Doghari:
Abeg 'Dr Nicky okoye' the 'sophisticated Ibo', can you tell us the name of the tribe that pronounces 'Ndigbo' as 'Indigbo' as you did?

Thank you as you remain a patriotic ' Ibo' ewedurudeen from the woods of oshogbo. Say mi hi to Aregbe's muslim beards.

they blame everybody except them selves

Caseless:
Watch them come here to say this was written by Yoruba writer. Those platycephalidae can deny Ojukwu or their father and call them Hausa or Yoruba if they expressed views different from their own on biafra.

my brother it is pathetic, i once came across one who told me if Nnamdi Kanu were to be born in the time of Jesus Christ. it is as bad as that. and he is not quoted in the bible he wouldn't have read the bible

Aufbauh:
I sincerely sympathize with those Ipob miscreants whose future have been wasted by the uncouth psychopath Nnamdi Kanu.

https://twitter.com/TouchPH/status/900684318036692992

#BreakingNews: Appeal Court upholds Election Petition Tribunal's decision, names Andrew Uchendu as Senator representing Rivers East. Senator George Sekibo will now have the whole time in world to blow the whistle for his pay masters. Long live the Lion of Ubima.

wailers
ipodians
flat heads

food is ready

mumu Igbos no go watch channel tv make you see the fraud star you call God making a u turn on Anambra election just to save his face if you they look for link ask google

Terkimbi01:
The concept of election boycott as a tool in protest in a civilised society appeals to me.

I bought the idea, and even began to wish it extends to Benue.

imagine pulling the carpet off the feet of our opportunists politicians.


I was also happy when I saw news that Southern leaders are considering election boycott in 2019 unless there Nigeria is restructured.

It is my wish that Anambra people with stand firm and see this through.

So, today when I read about the cancellation of the boycott order, I decided to verify.

I saw a link for Radio Biafra here on Nairaland and launched the site.

then I began to listen to Radio Biafra live...


I was happy to hear that the order still stands.

the news by Nigerian news media about the order is false.

Kanu only said he would discuss with the leadership of his movement. that he could not take decision alone.

no decision has been taken...

From now onwards, I will be listening to radio Biafra.

i thank God you said paradoxically? in true terms it won't, whether he is part of the delegate or not

aolawale025:
Someone like Fayose would paradoxically have added more creditability to whatever political capital they hope to gain

thanks bro

my brother e tire me Nairalanders are hypocrites. Long LIVE the LION of Ubima

infohenry:
Amaechi is not a saint but I never believe any of this guys allegation from the beginning and I am happy he is now saying this. It is also funny nobody is commenting on this topic because it is now about amaechi innocence, hatred is really destructive than any weapon man has made.