Contrary to the denials of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President of
the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), details have surfaced
confirming he was involved in the movement of $9.3 million cash to South
Africa, purportedly for the purchase of arms.
A security source revealed to SaharaReporters that along with the
pastor, President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Security Adviser,
Sambo Dasuki, coordinated the movement of the cash, and that
its original destination was Cyprus, not South Africa.
It would be recalled that the story and documents emanating from the
Nigeria government are to the effect that the officials were going to
use the money to buy arms from Tier One in South Africa. It turned out
Tier One is not registered in that country to sell arms, and that it was
going to buy them, somehow, from the ESD International Group Ltd in
Cyprus.
Trying to wash his hands of the sordid story, Pastor Oritsejafor had
said he leased the jet to Eagle Air, in which he has an interest.
Eagle, in turn, said it leased it to Gold Coast Produce Limited.
The source told our reporter that the web of so-called
leases woven around the transaction was concocted in August to enable
Pastor Oritsejafor deny knowledge of the deal.
Repeated efforts by SaharaReporters to obtain from the Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority (NCAA) a copy of the so-called lease entered
into by the pastor failed to yield any fruit, as officials there claim
the Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, was away.
Similarly, the Corporate Affairs Commission, where Pastor Oritsejafor
registered the plane under “Eagle Air” Limited, claims that their
server has been taken over by one of their server/service providers, and
that they are therefore unable to access information
concerning ownership of Eagle Air.
As previously revealed by SaharaReporters, Pastor Oritsejafor’s
Bombardier jet was seized in South Africa’s Lanserai airport on
September 5 after law enforcement officials found that the jet
had illegally ferried $9.3million cash into the country accompanied by
an Isreali, Eyal Miseka and two Nigerians. The Nigerians are yet to be
identified.
As soon as the seizure took place, President Jonathan intervened with
the South African authorities in order to get the aircraft released as a
way of preventing the public from knowing that Pastor Oritsejafor’s jet
was involved in the deal. -SR
By Abiyamo
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