Senator George Akume Blasts Oritsejafor And CAN Over Immoral Activities

Senate Minority leader, Senator George Akume has blasted Pastor Oritsejafor and the Christian Association of Nigeria over their hampioning a “clearly criminal, immoral and unethical act” and attempting to mask it with “religious grandstanding”.

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Senator Akume said: “[Oritsejafor’s] arguments are unsustainable because he has vicarious liability at several levels, One, the vessel used for criminal activity belongs to him.

Secondly, he commercially leased the vessel to Eagle Air, which is a company he holds an interest in and which in turn further leased same to the company that converted it to commercial use with his full knowledge and approval. The chain of ethical liability is unbroken”

Akume went ahead and ridiculed CAN’s official response to the problem, saying that the group can now be labeled as a political entity since the installation of its current leadership.

“Since the present CAN leadership came on board, CAN has become a sorry appendage of the villa. It has become politically partisan, obscenely materialistic and the voice of the oppressor rather than the oppressed.

The situation degenerated to a state that the single largest block of CAN, which is, the Catholic Church suspended itself from the national leadership of CAN until “sanity” returns to the leadership,” Akume said.

He furthered: “The present leadership of CAN has never raised a comment on the legion of scandals President Jonathan has buffeted Nigerians with.

CAN was not heard on the fuel subsidy scam, pension scam, kerosene scam, Deizani’s myriad of sleazes, etc. etc. Rather, CAN is badmouthing any Nigerian who dares to admonish or even interrogate the series of controversies Pastor Oritsejafor is visiting on Christendom.”

Akume then pleaded to Oristejafor to sell his private jet and use the money to help build back the churches destroyed by Boko Haram in the northeast”.

 

It would be noted that in a statement, the Chairman of The Buhari Vanguard, Jasper Azuatalam, demanded that Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor be arrested for his involvement in the South African arms smuggling operation foiled, when two Nigerians and an Israeli man were stopped in South African with close to $10million (N1.7bn) in cash.