emapeteum:
This write-up lacks substance. Disagreeing with a man of God does not mean one is attacking the gospel.why operating a company in secret if he has no skeleton in his cupboard? Gospel of stomach infrastructure

please investigate the skeleton and take him to court and stop assuming something that can put you in trouble here sir.

SSIPON:


I said Any church that has politicians pandering around them.

please mention one church name that doesn't have politician as it's member?.

InvertedHammer:

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The issues involved in the Pandora saga are beyond your level of comprehension.

There is a reason why it is a big deal to warrant an expose'. Tax haven exists for a purpose and those who patronize them
know why they do. What you are trying to do is akin to justifying reasons for sleeping with a prostitute.

There is a reason why none of those accounts was opened as belonging to Winners Chapel International, Faith Terbanacle. Oyedepo is a glorified executive criminal Criminals are blessed too. Afterall he cannot match the financial prowess and philanthropy of Pablo Escobar. But they are both criminals in different industries nonetheless. Escobar was a drug baron while Oyedepo is a pulpit bandit.

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simple..guy thinks running a tax Haven account is cool, tax Haven accounts are most associated with illegal funds, corrupt politicians, theives and now corrupt/fake clergy men

I havent read anything abt d pandora document.Bt one thing is sure, living faith is a business.Take this frm someone that has been attending d church right from iyana Ipaja Raji Oba street.I was born into living faith so i was a member for many yrs.That church can do collect money frm members without giving anything in return.Oyededo preaches too mch on tithes n Kingdom investments bt doesnt talk abt how d church will help members.My father was a deacon in that church for so many yrs ,gave so mch to that church instead of investing in his future.At the end faith academy was established n my father who was an average incomer holder still couldnt afford to put any of his kids in that schl even after spending hundreds of thousand as of year 1999 in giving for that project.
To conclude,that church is a well run business,that doesn't giv back as it should except audio giving.The founder seems only interested in making money for his lineage.U support a govt tax n cash book audit of religions houses.

iCauseTrouble:
These people implicated in this Pandora stuff have done nothing wrong. Spend your money the way you think it will give you the best returns and security.

Not entirely correct, some of them stole the money and that is the actual problem

elyonchee:
A pandora is a mystery.

My question was directed at the earlier poster that referred to Pandora as if it was a country or location.

SSIPON:
I'm sorry any church that has politicians pandering around them, is fraudulent.

RTx10000000

MR OP OR MR WRITER, O MA TO YE YIN. CAN YOU TELL ME WHY BISHOP AND DAVID JNR TOOK TO THEIR HEELS IN UK AND WHEN LAST DID HE BISHOP TRAVELLED TO USA.

HigherEd:
I'm back from Church, and I find myself laughing as people on nairaland are claiming that I am a PR person for Bishop Oyedepo and expect I would soon be back with a rebuttal. I wasn't intending any rebuttal before, as I am not a PR person for the living faith church. But I would do this in defense of the gospel because a non credible attack against one of Nigeria's most credible churches is unacceptable.

I think many of us generally get carried away with headlines and forget the substance of an article before rushing to comment.

I have gone through the entire article and I haven't seen anything indicting of the Oyedepo family. But I would address four observations from the article itself and from the surrounding comments.

Why Should Oyedepo Or Living Faith Avoid Taxes By Setting Up Offshore Accounts Giving The Bible Verse "Give Unto Ceasar What Is Unto Ceasar"?

1) For all the businesses the living faith church operates in Nigeria pays taxes to the Nigerian government. This includes the publishing business, and the other taxable constituent businesses around the universities which includes the microfinance banks, water and beverage factories, farms etc.

2) There are over 200 nations on earth eligible to receive taxes. So British Islands is also 'ceasar'. Every nation has the responsibility to make themselves tax attractive to welcome foreign investment and Oyedepo and his family are just as eligible as anyone else to search for better priced tax opportunities for their personal or ministry benefit.

Is Living Faith Investment Carriage A Secret?


Inside the Mantle book and under the finance section of the living faith church details to great extent the administrative procedure for the church, it is well cited that the living faith church can maintain asset management to protect the church's income. Or did you expect the church to warehouse millions of dollars with banks who would live large on the proceeds and expose the hard earned income of worshippers to inflation even before the church uses it?

Are Oyedepo's Universities The Most Expensive In Nigeria As Claimed By The Article?

We all know this to be untrue. The Living Faith university system runs one of the most pocket friendly private universities in Nigeria when comapred to secular varsities of equal standing. There's nothing unusual about the price of Living faith schools.

I suspect that the addition of this claim was just to make Oyedepo look further bad and horrible.

Does Living Faith Maintain Four Jets?


This is another claim that has been debunked several times by Leke Beecroft of Church gist and many others who cared to explain.
The living faith church has used four to five planes in the past to convey its church leadership. It regularly sells her older planes to buy new ones. Currently, the church uses more of its helicopter to shuffle the church leadership and that of the RCCG around the country. While deemphasizing on the use of the private jet.

However, the article presented it as though the living faith church maintains an active fleet of four jets on standby in a futile attempt to further make the church appear greedy and evil.

Yes, @highered the spiritual son to Oyedepo has issued a rebbutal... Lol.. Spiritual son whose name isn't on the list of directors in any of the family companies listed in the pandora papers...
Oyedepo evades tax by hiding contributors monies in tax havens in shady companies belonging to just him and his immediate family.
The church has jets used to convey only church leadership and not church members of living faith who contributed thier monies... Lol

Covenant University and faith academy belongs to Oyedepo and family.. Your name is nowhere to be found..
Your brainwashing is on steroids and

In conclusion, you are a spiritual bastard.

Abbeyworld:
please investigate the skeleton and take him to court and stop assuming something that can put you in trouble here sir.please mention one church name that doesn't have politician as it's member?.

I never said "having a politician as it's member", I meant a church that politicians run to during election periods and other important political times, because they know the influence of the church on the people.

TinubuGoQuench:


YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN

So you mean no pastor can be a thieve at all, open your eye, you dey 9ja.

Techguy96:

Nigerians are not the only ones implicated in this Pandora issue, you guys were ok n happy with it untill they started exposing pastor's. This says alot about the mentality of Nigerians and why we are in this mess, you guys can not be liberated.

It's a pity.

Are u minding Nigerians, they are always a sympathizer with their gullible, pastors, imam, and political thieve thieves. Always defending their slaves master

Pandora Papers: Investigation Reveals How Bishop Oyedepo Set Up Company For Wife, Children In Tax Haven | Sahara Reporters

Mee:

Nigerian Pastors are the richest in the world. Their voluminous private Jets is a world record. Having a single private Jet is a sign of poverty for a Nigerian Pastor.

When Karl Marx declared that "religion is an opiate of the masses" he was partly right. I find it difficult to comprehend the rationale of collecting money from poor and hungry people and to use those money to buy private Jet for the comfort of a single man.

There are dollar billionaires in the West and China that do not have private Jets. Unfortunately, Our Pastors here in Nigeria compete in the purchase of expensive Private Jets.

I am not criticizing Christianity please, I am criticizing an unjust norm that is cruel and unjust to the poor and downtrodden. If Muslim clerics does this I will criticize them.

Please share this post with your Nigerian Christian Friends and Associates! Thank you!

#ElbinawiTweets

LordReed:


My question is how do people who claim that Jesus is coming soon go about opening offshore businesses? How does that play into the theology? Is Jesus coming to take possession of offshore businesses? Isn't it indicative of a lack of belief in this Jesus is coming soon theology?

Are you sure you know the theology of the living faith church?

Themandator:


There is no substance to the story. What I believe is that somebody is catching out on the wave to get at my Bishop

The article stayed that he set up the secret system but couldn't tell the kind of business it was used or to be used for.

The whole attempt is to get his name there....

As for the aircraft nonsense ,I have had cause to ask somebody if in his wisdom it was possible for anybody in Nigeria not running an airline business to maintain four aircraft.

Cross river state government that claimed to have set up an airline business doesn't have four jets

Nothing about aircraft is sold in naira and it is not designed to stay in the ground..the more it stays the more it incurs cost so why would any sensible person maintain 4

Thank you.

jos4kay:
They tell members to store their treasure in heaven while they kept theirs in Pandora. That's fraud

Their own heaven is Pandora.
It depends on the definition of heaven.

27Pushing30:


I stopped reading the moment I saw “British virgin island is a Caesar”

FYI British Virgin Islands is a TAX HAVEN!

Explain how a CHURCH will set up a SHELL company in a TAX HAVEN where MOBSTERS, DICTATORS , THE C-RONALDOS MOURINHOS MESSI’s go to HIDE THEIR WEALTH AND AVOID PAYING TAX

Hope when FG goes after them the way the Spanish government went after Cronaldo/Messi/Mourinho/alonso etc y’all won’t complain sha

Tax evasion is a serious crime

Tax havens are not a crime, though they can be exploited for criminal purposes. Don't be silly. Google, Microsoft etc all patronize tax havens of different sorts.

The company in question is to carry the investment of Oyedepo and his family. He has the right to incorporate anywhere he desires.

The question is, should someone who claims to be preaching the teachings of Jesus Christ be so obscenely rich?

These men are conmen.

Why is he keeping so much money locked up in the bank when most of his church members are living in penury?

Is that even Christ-like?

If Jesus walked the earth today, would he have tax haven like his acclaimed followers?

There's nothing indicting about the pandora stuff, normally every investor would like to invest in any economy that is tax-friendly. If I have my money today, I will also make a move to have investment in such a place.

DoggoneDogg:
Afonjas are confused as their fake pastor has been caught doing the same thing Peter Obi did which they said is fraud.

Watch how Afonjas will turn around now to support that lawyer defending Peter Obi.


Bloody turncoat backstabbers!!

See your life dey diminish!

HigherEd:


Tax havens are not a crime, though they can be exploited for criminal purposes. Don't be silly. Google, Microsoft etc all patronize tax havens of different sorts.

The company in question is to carry the investment of Oyedepo and his family. He has the right to incorporate anywhere he desires.

Smiles so pastor sef fit dey run tax evasion scheme lmaoo

Sha when FG goes after him no cry foul just allow justice take its course

After all e no go pass heavy fine

Trumann:
Don't try to explain the inexplicable. At least, when Oyedepo criticises politicians, we know he's not different from them.

Oyedepo is not a politician or a public office holder. So get sense

The government should start taxing churches.…I will keep on saying it
Religion is our problem in this Country
Let the government start taxing churches maybe majority of this 4-5 churches in a street won't close down!

As for the pandora box
Who won't like to open a business in a place where there's less tax?

Why did you think everyone is opening church in Nigeria?


The only problem there is politicians stealing our common wealth to establish companies overseas

You can't be a Christian and talk like this.

I'm a Christian but this pastor issa yahoo bishop [/quote]

U really have time o allow wailers to continue with their wailing and hypocrisy 4 their wailing and hypocrisy can only make LFC and bishop greater and can never reduce or have any negative effect on him


NO 1 CAN CURSE WHO GOD HAS BLESSED.

HigherEd:

Are you sure you know the theology of the living faith church?

Maybe I don't, enlighten me.

SSIPON:


This is a public website. I don't have time for argument with kids, but your mother no train you well, at all.

Imagine who just typed this. A fool who has no regards for his parent has guts to talk about up bringing.

Go figure out how yhu were raised first and let's see if yhu will still be bold to mention me. Useless lot.

Bobmarie:
Olodo

Next time, refrain yhurself from mentioning me stup1dly.

Now go get a life. Bye.

bigfoot79:


Not entirely correct, some of them stole the money and that is the actual problem

I get bro. If any of them stole money, then let them be investigated. But if there is no evidence of stolen money, let them invest their money where they like

Rebuke:



Imagine who just typed this. A fool who has no regards for his parent has guts to talk about up bringing.

Go figure out how yhu were raised first and let's see if yhu will still be bold to mention me. Useless lot.

Get some anger management lessons. How old are you? 12?
Anyways, I am just pointing out the obvious. You are an uncultured swine who hates been called out.
Kids these days are something else smh.

Sunday2021:
no wonder we are where we are. It is madness and foolishness for a Nigerian youth to borrow #100 data from MTN in order to defend corrupt pastors and politicians who stole billions from the same youths.

Bro, not everybody is a pauper like you. Don't always expect everybody to buy your ideas or believe. If any of them stole money, then let them be investigated. But if there is no evidence of stolen money, let them invest their money where they like

iCauseTrouble:

Bro, not everybody is a pauper like you. Don't always expect everybody to buy your ideas or believe. If any of them stole money, then let them be investigated. But if there is no evidence of stolen money, let them invest their money where they like

how many investigations do want? Go back and read about obi Pandora.
Tomorrow we will be shouting Nigeria is corrupt, Nigeria is not moving forward, but the youths cannot stand with the government agencies,they preferred to stand with the corrupt politicians. We will keep this your message for your children, when ever they complain about Nigeria,I show them their fathers statement when a corrupt politician was called for accountability.