Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Pastor Tunde Bakare Speaks On $9.3million Arms Deal
Bakare said: “You can not take the action of
one person and blame it on the whole Christian
body. Whoever owns the jet and involved you
now them by name rather than blame it on the
entire Christian body”.
He said if he it is true about Ayo Oritsejafor
saying he leased his private his jet to the
company and had no issue with it, he should
not be blamed but if otherwise, the truth has a
way of coming out.
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However, reacting to the call for Oritsejafor to
resign, he said he will never asked for
resignation until the matter is properly judged
as he stated there is a body that should
investigated the matter.
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It would be recalled that on September 5,
2014, two Nigerians and an Israeli attempted
to smuggle the sum of $9.3 million conveyed
in a private jet into South Africa which was
seized by the country’s authorities .
The seizure of $9.3m by the South African
authorities has since trailed with a lot of
controversies, especially after reports surfaced
that the private jet used to convey the money
belonged to the President of the Christian
Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo
Oritsejafor .
Its reported, yesterday that the
presidency denied Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the
national president of Christian Association of
Nigeria, CAN’s involvement in the
controversial $9.3m arms deal in South Africa.
“The linking of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor is the
most unfortunate thing; to put the very
respectable, responsible, honest and sincere
President of CAN in this matter is the extreme
of mischief”.
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor although he said the
private jet belongs to him he has,
however, denied involvement in the
controversial $9.3 million.
“Please permit me to state clearly before God
and before all of you here present today, that I
am not a party to the movement of $9.3m
from Nigeria to South Africa to purchase arms
and ammunition. I am not part of the deal. I
know nothing about it”.