Worldwide has been expelled from the ministry. Recall that Pastor
Suleman condemned the scheme, calling it satanic.
According to a statement signed by Pastor David Apelorioye, the head of
admin at OFM, Pastor Joseph Aiyedun, who is in charge of one the OFM
branches in Aba, Abia State, was fired for participating in the Mavrodi
Mondial Movement (MMM), a ponzi scheme widely acclaimed to be a satanic
venture.
It should be recalled that the founder and president of the OFM, Apostle
Johnson Suleman, at a church service in November 2016, warned members
of his congregation against involving in MMM, calling it ‘demonic’.
The statement from the church reads thus;
“The management of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide is using this medium
to react to a news making the rounds on the social media regarding one
of his pastors who used the ministry’s name to register for the MMM
scheme. Ordinarily, the church would not have reacted to the story
because of falsehoods being published regularly by some blogs and news
websites whose credibility are questionable. But after a thorough
investigation by the church authority, it was established that one of
our branch pastors in Aba, Pastor Joseph Aiyedun, indeed participated in
the scheme.”
The statement adds that the erring pastor was sacked after a thorough
investigation and it was discovered that he used the name of the church
to register for MMM, thereby denting the ministry’s image in the public
eye. It was gathered that the erring pastor would have just been
disciplined in line with the church rules if he had registered for the
scheme in his personal capacity but because he used the ministry’s name
for the scheme, he was asked to go.
“The church authority decided to expel Pastor Aiyedun not because he
registered for the ponzi scheme but because he involved the ministry’s
name in the satanic adventure. And we discovered that he was able to use
the ministry’s name because he had access to the account of his branch
which itself is against the church’s guidelines and a fraud likely to
have been carried out in connivance with the branch’s account
department. We are still investigating further to unravel the whole
activities.”
The statement therefore appeals to the general public to disregard any
news being passed around about Omega Fire Ministries involving in the
MMM scheme or any scheme of its kind because it is not true.
“Of the OFM’s 200 churches in Nigeria alone and its 800 branches in 51
nations of the world, it is possible for any of the pastors to go astray
and be corrected. In fact, we discovered that Pastor Aiyedun, including
some other members of OFM, did the scheme before our father, Apostle
Johnson Suleman made the warning last year against MMM, but Pastor
Aiyedun was fired because he did it with the ministry’s name as the OFM
rules forbid any of its pastors access to the account except people in
the account department.”
It was gathered that to enable him look after his family whilst he
searches for other things to do in life, the church paid the sacked
pastor a full one year salary ahead on the instruction of Apostle
Suleman who was not available for comments at press time.
