SHOCKER: Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor Named As SECRET SPONSOR Of The Niger Delta Avengers

TaShawn, a wife to Bolaino Akwenuke (a warlord/close associate of Tompolo) visited Warri, Delta state, last December with intentions to do mission work in villages affected by the spills. TaShawn spent four months there and was unable to do anything due to high crime in the areas.  

Recently, she speaks with Bolaino Akwenuke on the current situation in the oil-rich region, which has been constantly suffering from the attacks of the militants.  

Mr Akwenuke denied that former Niger Delta warlord Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, is supporting the activities of the militants. Instead, he claimed that the sponsor of the Niger Delta Avengers is Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor. Akwenuke also speaks about the role of Pastor Ayo in the Dasukigate and government of Muhammadu Buhari

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In life, you never know who you will meet. I say this while reflecting upon my decision to visit Nigeria last December 2015. I would have never imagined I would stumble into a man who is part of a situation that can impact so many lives in a negative or positive way depending on how this story plays out. When I arrived at the airport In Lagos last year I was escorted by the kindest man I had ever met. My travel itinerary contained plans of travel to Warri and then to visit rivers

area of Delta State to help victims affected by the oil spills. We made it Warri but we never reached the rivers area due to high crime, military action and oil pipeline and facility bombings.

At the time the incidents were being blamed on Tompolo; I know this because while there I became interested in Nigerian news and we would read the local papers daily. What I did not know is the extent of involvement my host played in the situation. Nor did I know that his involvement would lead to my own.

Fast forwarding to today and here we are: bombings still occurring in the delta region, Tompolo still being framed, and me assisting Akwenuke Bolaino Marho, the nice man who met me at the airport in Lagos December 2015, to tell his story of involvement; not only how he is involved but also to disclose the real culprit behind the Shell and Chevron Texaco oil facility bombings.

In one of the most recent conversations that I and Bolaino have had he mentioned that tribal tension had been on the rise and if things continued than his tribe the Urhobo and the Ijaw tribe, for which Tompolo belongs to may fight each other. As I asked him why the conversation proceeded and this is what ensued:

TaShawn: So why will your tribe (Urhobo) fight the Ijaws?

Bolaino: They are trying to frame me up, I will not fold my hands and allow people kill Americans and blame it on my organization. The only thing that will solve all this is if that pastor is arrested. Ijaw and Urhobo people are killing each other more each day in the villages, and the man who is responsible for this is going out to party.

TaShawn: Who is this man you speak of?

Bolaino: The man is the devil incarnate himself. He succeeded in making the Itsekiri and Ijaw fight endlessly in delta state many years ago. He succeeded then and he is succeeding again. This time around the death rate from a tribal war between Urhobo and Ijaw going the way it is already will be devastating. My parents’ house will be burnt to ashes and all houses in the area.

As it is now, there is already a refugee crises as Ijaw people are moving out of my area in Udu which is an Urhobo community. Some are being harassed and assaulted, and Tompolo has told me that if all this should continue we will fight each other.

TaShawn Do you want to fight Tompolo?

Bolaino: No I do not want to fight, I want peace.

TaShawn: Have you told anyone else about this?

Bolaino: I have been telling everyone for the past few weeks how they want to give me a name that is not my own. From the FBI, CIA, to the State Department. My country, my Senator, my ministers, etc. but they are acting like imbeciles, as if they don’t know A from B. They are forcing my hands. I have called the Nigerian Army. DSS. All of them. I have called the minsters I know. They pick the call and pretend to listen, and tell me they will do something about it but all the while, things are escalating.

TaShawn: How has the situation escalated and you never mentioned the Pastor’s name?

Bolaino: His name is Ayo Oristsejafor. He is now moving his guns and weapons from his church to Urhobo communities to fuel tribal war. They plan on blowing up a Chevron facility and putting the blame on me and my movement (MFPND). That is why I had to go to the creeks this period to plan for this. I have written about this man, there are a lot of things he has done, if there is a Satan that is who he is.

TaShawn: So why are you telling me and how do you expect these agencies to help?

Bolaino: I want you to expose this man. It is the only way to end this situation. There is evidence to put him in prison, but Nigerian people are scared of him, because he is a pastor. If you can help to expose him everything will be over.. the militancy in the region, etc.

TaShawn: What kind of evidence do you have and are you sure it will stick to him?

Bolaino: I can tell you everything, if you agree to help and are willing to listen. You will need to write all of this down.

TaShawn: Alright I will do what I can to help and am ready to listen…

Bolaino: Ok, firstly, Pastor Ayo is the Chief sponsor of the militant group The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA)

TaShawn Are you are saying that Tompolo is not the one giving the NDA orders?

Bolaino: That is exactly what am saying. He (Pastor Ayo) sponsors them by giving weapons and ammunition. He gives them targets to bomb in the Niger Delta.

TaShawn:Â Now Bolaino how can you allege that a Pastor is the sponsor of such a deadly group. What proof do you have of this allegation?

Bolaino: Yes we have very strong proof of his involvement in the bombings of the Niger Delta. But we will only show the evidence to incorruptible government lawyers and we are ready to stand in a competent court of law to defend our allegations. I assure you we have corroborative evidence against this man and the media can attest to its truthfulness. I want to discuss this evidence with men and women of the press.

TaShawn:Â Ok, what exact evidence do you have on the Pastor?

Bolaino: First and foremost the pastor uses his private aeroplane to ferry drugs and guns from America and other parts of Europe to Nigeria. He has been caught once by the Authorities, but the corrupt government of the former president of Nigeria swept it under the rug.

TaShawn:Â Why did the former president not apprehend the Pastor at that time he was caught?

Bolaino: The plane was purchased with money from the Government scams involving the Nigerian Army. At the time the pastor was helping with corrupt Government officials in Nigeria to launder money with his bank Eagle Flight Micro Finance Bank . They were stealing money meant for fighting insurgency in the North Eastern part of Nigeria. At the time Colonel Sambo Dasuki was in charge of ripping the army off from the inside, since he was in government at the time.

TaShawn:Â Please explain more in depth how these men, Dasuki and Ayo operated inside the scandal?

Bolaino: They were supposed to buy aeroplanes, weapons, and ammunition for the Nigerian Army fighting Boko Haram, but these monies were never spent on the things that were needed to be purchased.

TaShawn: Is this a factor of why Boko haram is still at large in Northern/ Northeast Nigeria presently?

Bolaino: Yes, as a result, Boko haram invaded the Northeast and Nigerian army men were running away from the battle field because they were not well equipped enough and they became mutinous.

TaShawn:Â Is that the only evidence you have?

Bolaino: No, we have more, We have evidence that he was caught once more working with Hezbollah organization in Nigeria. They were helping him to buy weapons in South Africa when his plane was caught with over 9 million dollars. When they questioned him as to what he intended to do with that large sum of money the response was that he wanted to buy arms and ammunition from a South African defense contraction company. After the claims were investigated they were found to be false. This lead us to believe that he was preparing for secession in Nigeria if the ruling party at the time lost. Prior to that time he and others at large had tried to assassinate Mr. Muhamadu Buhari, in a twin car bomb attack in Kaduna. Fortunately, Buhari survived.

TaShawn:Â Bolaino how did you come to learn all this information?

Bolaino: The pastor told us in an informal gathering of warlords that period that they did it because they did not want Buhari to survive; they knew that if they allowed him to contest in the election they would loose and he would win. Afterwards, the pastor came up with the “BuhariBokoHaramOp”. See at the time he was the leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria  (CAN) so he had a cult following and he still does to this day.

TaShawn: What do you mean by “he had a cult following” and exactly how did the pastor use his following to further his agenda?

Bolaino: I mean he had a mass following of pastors and their members that would do as he said with no questions asked. He started telling his pastors and their members in churches all over Nigeria that Buhari is a terrorist. That Buhari planned to Islamize Nigeria if he won.

TaShawn: Since you say “we” a lot I am assuming there are witnesses other than yourself that can attest to this information you are sharing with me today?

Bolaino: Yes, we have numerous witnesses to this scandal. Myself being one of course. But Pastor Ayo and his followers did this for long, even until this day that propaganda still thrives on, hence the current disposition of my fellow warlords to Buhari. As they still honestly believe that Buhari is the sponsor of the Boko Haram. They don’t know any better otherwise. But as God would have it everything they did in trying to kill Buhari or spoil his image was in vein.

At the time of the past election, it has to be mentioned that the pastor was campaigning for PDP which is the party of the former president.

TaShawn: Ok, so to back track a little you mentioned you are a warlord, but that you currently want peace; are you saying that some warlords in Nigeria are fighting for peace?

Bolaino: Yes, I am a warlord, and once again yes I and other warlords want peace to reign throughout Nigeria, as there is no reason to fight. The problem is corruption and greed. To add to my earlier information, we received word of Ayo’s involvement in the assassination attempt on Buhari in 2014 by a former Hezbollah operative we caught at sea after the act. He confessed to it before he died. That was when we started to connect the dots between him and the Hezbollah network in Delta state. After his candidate lost he sent a mole into the APC (opposing political party) in the person of Chief Ayiri Emami

TaShawn: Who is this Chief Ayiri, what is his background and why did Pastor Ayo choose him as a mole?

Bolaino: Ayiri is known in Warri as a popular assassin and ritualist, so he was welcomed into the APC. Ayiri made sure to enter the APC two days after it was announced that his former party the PDP had lost the election. The APC being a party of Northern extraction did not fully understand the workings of the Niger Delta Politicians/ warlords. So it was from here on that the Niger Delta agitation was hijacked by Pastor Ayo and his cohorts. This is where everything started, this is where the story is today.

TaShawn: And what of Tompolo and how are you so deeply involved and knowledgable of all this information that no one else will speak of ?

Bolaino: Tompolo is a good man, a man that I owe immense gratitude to. He is the one that inspired me to join the Niger Delta struggle for resource control. He was always helping the poor and making them millionaires over night. It was strange because no one else in the region had ever done anything like it before. Although he was an outlaw when I first met him, he was given amnesty and I was not, so I began working with pastor Ayo and Ayiri.

TaShawn: Ayiri, Ayo, Tompolo and You are Warlords? Any other names I should know of that pertain to this story?

Bolaino: Ayiri is a warlord for all the Itsekiri people of Delta State. You have to also know that Pastor Ayo is also of the Itsekiri tribe, with the former Governors of the Delta State. Chief Ibori who was the first democratic governor of Delta state is half Urhobo and half Itsekiri. It was through his cousin Governor Uduaghan who is the immediate past governor of Delta state; he is also Itsekiri, and he is also the brains behind the whole NDA operation. He does the planning, strategizing etc. He is a brilliant man but he only uses his brilliance for evil. He is the evil genius behind all this and he is also the one who set Ibori up. Ibori is currently serving jail time in the UK. Ibori, his wife Nkoyo, and his sisters and lawyers are all serving time in the UK. They were all set up by the same people who are about to set me and Tompollo up. So I started working with Pastor Ayo.

TaShawn:Â Why is Ibori in jail?

Bolaino: There are newspaper articles to corroborate what I am saying. These things are public knowledge, well not all but some. They are deceiving the Deltans. Did you not hear of the Monseca law firm scandal? That indicted many prominent men and women of the world for tax evasion and financial crimes. Ibori is highly implicated in that scandal, as his name was released in the leaks.. Google it. The british Government intends on leveling new fresh charges against him.

TaShawn: Alright, now please tell me what you want the media and press to do? Especially the American press…

Bolaino: I have gone to British Media many times. They know all this but are afraid to do anything. Many people only hear my name but they do no know my face. I need to put a face to my name for the sake of peace to reign. I want you and others to take this issue very seriously, please. We want these things to be published everywhere in news in the US because what is happening now concerns them a lot. It is common knowledge that American and British companies like Shell and Texaco operate in Delta State. The Niger Delta Avengers have been blowing up Shell facilities, but they have not been blowing up much of Texaco facilities.

TaShawn: Do you know why it’s mostly the Shell facilities being bombed?

Bolaino: Good question, yes I do. Shell operates in the Ijaw part of the Delta State, namely the Shell oil exporting tank at Forcados, In Ogulagha Kingdom. While Chevron Texaco is located in the Itsekiri part of Delta State. Texaco has an oil exporting tank farm at Ugboroda in Warri Southwest Escravos of Delta state.

TaShawn: Are you going to get to how this all escalates into Tribal conflict and future war?

Bolaino: Yes, that is where I am going to. You have to know that for many decades the Ijaws and Itsekiris have been fighting tribal war in the Delta State for long. The fight is usually on and off, and when they fight they burn down everywhere in Warri. The reason we moved to the area (my family and I) we are currently staying is because of the tribal fighting in that part of Warri we used to stay. They were always burning down houses and the house we were staying in Ogborikoko at the time was owned by an Ijaw man.

So we were at risk of our house being burnt by the Itsekiris at any time. So after the former president lost the election and Ayiri switched into the APC just two days after his former party lost the election it was assumed that Ayiri had betrayed them at the federal government level of the PDP.

TaShawn: So who are the Urhobo/ Isoko preparing to fight presently?

Bolaino: Currently the Ijaws. Pastor Ayo is giving us all the weapons we need to fight.

TaShawn: So why aren’t you happy about this, why tell me to expose the man who is helping you?

Bolaino: He is a bad man. The reason I am angry is because he tried to kill me when I refused. If not that I am a strong man, a man of the spirits then I would be dead by now and my son would be fatherless for sure, but God Disgraced him.

TaShawn: Why are they fighting?

Bolaino: They are fighting because the pastor set us up to fight and gave the order.

TaShawn: So In Nigeria one must fight when a Pastor gives the order, because he is a warlord who hands them out weapons ?

Bolaino: Yes Jesus is God in Nigeria, anything church if you oppose it they will kill you. Do you know how many thousands of people pastors have killed in Delta State? You don’t. They sent people to my house. My father and mother have relocated to other regions. Right now he is distributing Guns out to people under his boy Ayiri and others at large. He is the one (The pastor Ayo) who told the King of Aladja and Urhobo Community that God revealed to him that if he does not tell his fellow Urhobo Kings to drive out Ijaws from Urhobo land that the Ijaws will take over all of Urhobo land in the next year 2017 with the Biafrans. The Biafrans have vowed to tear Nigeria apart by January next year to fulfil America’s prediction of Nigeria breaking into pieces in 2017.

TaShawn: Do you know why he (Pastor Ayo) is doing all this?

Bolaino: He is doing all this to escape prison. Many of the people he shared federal government money with meant to fight Boko Haram, are currently in prison. They are mentioning his name in statements, and soon he will be indicted. So he is doing this in order to escape being arrested. This is what he told me before trying to kill me. He tried to kill me in his church, this is where we hold meetings and that is also where he stores the weapons for the NDA. Tompollo and I were preparing to submit all our weapons to the government, but our hands are being forced to fight one another; if this pastor is caught the bloodshed will cease.

SOURCE: Naij News

2015 CAN Bribe Scandal: How Pastor Oritsajafor Shared Jonathan N7b Largess; See List Of Who Gets What

New Telegraph - As investigations continue into various allegations of sleaze in the past administration, information has emerged that the former leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) may have presided over the sharing of the sum of N7billion allegedly provided by former President Goodluck Jonathan to solicit support of churches to vote for him in the March 28, 2015 elections.

Pentecostal pastor, Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa, in an exclusive interview with Sunday Telegraph, said that CAN’s national and state executives, as well as various leaders, received various sums of money under the supervision of former CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsajafor and CAN General Secretary, Rev. (Dr.) Musa Asake, to campaign for the then President in the last election. “When we received the N7billion, you know CAN has five blocks. Each block in CAN collected N50million.

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While National CAN executives got N30million each, some got N20million while women’s group was given N25million. All the state CAN officials collected N3million each. Zonal CAN chairmen got N5million each and former CAN President, Pastor Oritsejafor, went with the remaining part of the N7billion,” he said.

Besides the N7billion reportedly given for campaigns, Dikwa added: “There were Toyota Sports Utility Vehicles given to them. Let me tell you, there are lot of people that can come out to testify if not because of fear. They came church by church, to campaign for former President Jonathan as their candidate, just because they had collected N7billion for the campaigns.

But they didn’t exhaust the whole money on campaigns and the people that received the money were the former President of CAN and the General Secretary.” Giving reasons why he got N1million from CAN, he said the money was received as part of ‘out of court settlement’ in a suit against them.

“The matter is currently being investigated by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, which had informed me to play along with them.” He said shortly after the money was paid into his Ecobank account, a lien was placed on it and he never touched it as part of the investigators’ directive. “The reason why they bribed me with N1million was because I took them to court last year.

When I raised the issue of N7billion, the General Secretary of CAN, Dr. Asake, wrote a letter signed by him to the DSS to arrest and investigate me,” he said. Efforts to get reactions of Pastor Oritsajafor was unsuccessful as he neither picked his phone nor respond to our text message. The text message to Oritsejafor by 8:09am Saturday, after repeated calls reads: “Good morning His Eminence.

Hope you had a restful night sir. I have been calling you since yesterday, (Friday). One Pastor Dikwa alleged that you and Rev. Asake presided over the distribution of N7bn from Dr. Goodluck Jonathan for pastors to campaign for him in the churches last year. What is your position on this sir?” But Rev. Asake said Dikwa’s story is old and a figment of his imagination. He said neither he nor Oritsejafor presided over any sharing of N7billion because such money was never given to CAN leadership during their tenure. “He has been telling this story since last year.

He has spoken in Abuja and in Kaduna. The story is not straight forward because he (Dikwa) is attempting to dribble all Nigerians. The incident allegedly happened before the elections. Tell me, if it was true, would the government, which is arresting all indicted persons, not have arrested us? “On one occasion, when he brought up this issue, he was asked to produce evidence; he said he had no documents.

He even wrote a letter of apology to us, but now he has started going the old path. I am not afraid of probe. If EFCC invites me over this matter, I am willing to go there,” Asake, CAN General Secretary said. Current CAN President, Rev. Supo Ayokunle, who could not pick his call at about 13:25hrs, because his aide said “Baba is preaching,” later replied to our correspondent’s text message, saying, “Call the people concerned. I don’t have anything to do with it.”

Osun Hijab Issue: Who Is Fighting For God? By Goke Butika

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity,"---Martin Luther King jnr.

In my family, the first born of my mother, Tunde Butika, my elder brother is a good Christian of Four Square church, a Deacon for that matter. My immediate elder brother Lasun, is a Christian of Celestial extraction but his wife is Alhaja and I am Muslim raised by my maternal grand parents who were liberal Muslim but practised traditional religion, for grandpa consulted ifa oracle, and in some occasions, we had killed dogs for Ogun deity.

I chose to paint the picture of my family and its disposition to religions in order to set record for my experience as touching religion of an average Yoruba man's value and his disposition to religious belief. And I think the best way to test the potency of a drug is self experience.

It saddens my mind that among all challenges confronting our nation, adornment of religious robe is the take of our religionists in the State of Osun. Wearing of hijab has suddenly become a hot issue, when states could not meet obligations as simple as salaries of workers up to date; when poverty is becoming sprawling among the populace; when families are going hungry; when tenants could no longer pay their rents; when hospitals have become mere consulting clinics; when schools are no longer producing employable graduates; when masters degree holders are surviving on okadas and P.hD holders are begging to apply for Dangote truck driving; politicians are dancing on the graves of the poor masses, and masses are raining curses on the leaders.

As a stakeholder in Osun, I do not intend to pass blame as some commentators have fallen into the fallacies espoused by Martin Luther, but to think aloud on how we reached this low in the state. Therefore, it is imperative to reflect on the past by placing the fact, so as not to commit inductive leap like Segun Adeniyi of ThisDay newspaper who flaunted his sincere ignorance in  his column, where he heaps the blame on Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

In the first premise, all missionaries schools were taken over in 1975, and according to a man who witnessed the process, one Dr. Adegbulu, the then government compensated the missions both from Muslim and Christianity, and government has been funding and managing the schools since then. I learnt that the reason for the take over is to deactivate religious divides among the children. Yes, the names were retained as honorarium, nevertheless they are all government schools, because the government pays the teachers and constructing and reconstructing the structures.

If the fact stated above is not contestable, I think the issue of reclassification of schools by Aregbesola government exhumed the raging noise now. I know for a fact that in the course of building model schools that could contain more students; students from different schools were mixed together, and it is also a fact that the committee that implemented the reclassification was headed by the Deputy Governor Grace Titilaoye Tomori, a very good Christian leader.

Perhaps, in the course of merging schools, some Catholic schools that were liberal with head scarf (hijab) wearing pupils were merged with Baptist schools could not tolerate hijab, but green berets. But the timing of the merger was the gasoline that revved up the fire, for the opposition feared the popularity of the governor would dim their chance of snatching power from the governor; hence the politicking as the political gun of "Islamization" of the state was fired.

Knowing full well that religion is a very sensitive weapon designed to cage reason, the governorship candidate of the opposition party, a Christian used the islamization to wipe religious sentiment against Aregbesola, and obviously, some section of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) led by Ayo Oritsejafor amplified it to arm-twist Christian electorate for the former President Goodluck Jonathan who had a personal score to settle with Aregbesola, arising from his failure to capture the state in the 2011 presidential election. So, it is a statement of truth that media was heavily mobilized against the governor, to an extent of being related to boko haram in the North East.

Ironically, Aregbesola is being demonized by some section of Muslim, who picked a bone with him for declaring holiday for "ISESE FESTIVAL" for traditionalists to have a sense of belonging. As at last week, one controversial personality called "onikun kewu" went ahead to attacked the governor live on television, claiming that Allah was angry with the state, because Aregbesola allowed the traditionalists to celebrate their belief. He was only short of declaring fatwa on him.

I learnt that the government delegation met with concerned religious leaders in the state on the issue of dress code, and it was resolved to an extent, but some Muslim groups were unhappy about the resolution. So, they approached court of competent jurisdiction headed by a Christian Chief Judge for redress, and the case was decided in favor of them, tolerating hijab wearing in public schools, but this time CAN was unhappy with the judgment, and threatened to adorn church robes on Christian students, should  the governor abide by the law. The government was quiet and refused to be drawn into religious fray, Muslim students reportedly wore their hijab and about five Christian students wore church garments like choir robe, vestment and sultana to school in Baptist High school, Iwo. One school out of over three thousand schools in the state.

In line with the media conspiracy on ground, the news was amplified into crisis situation, when the people of Iwo did not even know that some actors were playing any script, all photographs I have seen have not shown more than five non-conformist in the School. The surprising aspect was that religious leaders were reported to have gone for monitoring of what would be the fate of their bait in School.

From my own take, the issue of adornment is too trivial to be celebrating when we have fundamental issues to address. No wonder, Karl Marx describes religion as an opium of the masses. What can hijab or choir robe do for a student with low morale? Can the religious affiliation make any student reach the top flight of his career? How come the Muslim and Christian groups are not condemning the ladies in nude which attracts rape? Can the fight over the religious adornment increase the financial capacity of the state to enhance workers' pay? How come the religious leaders are fighting themselves over the religious dress of elementary schools that would be of no issue when they proceed to high institutions of learning? How cone our religious leaders are  criminally quiet about the mind boggling looting of the nation? To me, everything about this matter is bad politics, and the sooner the actors in it abandon the script, the better for them.

As for me, God creates all things, and we should endeavor to uphold the dictate of humanity by not fighting over the knowledge of unknown which is religion, but learn to tolerate one another for peace to reign.

The same  Luther says- "we have learnt how to fly in the sky like bird, we have learnt how to swim in the sea like fishes, but we have not learnt the simple act of living together. It was religionists who killed Plato, the ancient Philosopher of Greek state when he asked people to reason instead of lying on God, but centuries later, he was declared the wisest man who ever lived.

Butika is an intercontinental journalist.