Family Of Adewale Ajimosogbe Raises Alarm As Blogger Spends 3 Months In Ikoyi Prison Over Alleged Libel Against MFM Founder, Olukoya


June 4, 2024
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However, one of the family members, told SaharaReporters they had spent over N700,000 yet couldn't secure Adewale Ajimosogbe’s release.

The family of a 23-year-old blogger Adewale Ajimosogbe has raised the alarm over the detention of their son, at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre for three months.

Adewale was detained over alleged cyberbullying and libel against the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) General Overseer, Dr Daniel Olukoya.

The Nigeria Police Force on March 4, 2024, arrested Adewale, making it exactly three months today since his detention.

It was learnt that Adewale - the Publisher of PostReporters - was arrested in the Okitipupa area of Ondo State.

SaharaReporters gathered that the blogger was arrested for re-publishing a SaharaReporters' story on Ayotunde Richards’ N15.5-billion-naira fundamental human rights case against the MFM founder, Davidson Adejuwon and the Nigeria Police.

It was alleged that the blogger added a rider - 'Olukoya is a criminal and the one behind all illegal acts in MFM.'

SaharaReporters gathered that the police claimed that they were acting on the strength of a petition written by Davidson Adejuwon, an aide to Olukoya and a lawyer, in which he accused the blogger of tarnishing Olukoya's name.

Davidson filed the petition as counsel for one Mrs Sanni, an aide to Olukoya reportedly saddled with the cleric’s social media concerns.

In a ruling on Wednesday, April 24, Ambrose Allagoa, the presiding judge, said the charges against Adewale were bailable.

Adewale is to provide a surety with landed property in Lagos but has yet to perfect his bail condition.

However, one of the family members, told SaharaReporters they had spent over N700,000 yet couldn't secure Adewale Ajimosogbe’s release.

"We have spent over seven hundred thousand during the bail application process and when the bail condition was out, we were asked to provide a surety with landed properties in Lagos," the family source said.

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It was alleged that the blogger added a rider - 'Olukoya is a criminal and the one behind all illegal acts in MFM.'

It's Not MFM’s Fault Ex-Ministers Spent 9 Years In Jail; They Chose To Stay In Prison When No One Bailed Them Out –Church Lawyer


June 10, 2024
NEWS

However, a July 2016 ruling of a Lagos State High Court at Igbosere acquitted and discharged Jimoh and two others charged with conspiracy to rob the church.

The Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries (MFM) has stated that its ex-members who were locked up for nine years chose to remain in prison because nobody went to secure their release after they were granted bail.

Pastor Femi Jimoh, who identified himself as a former MFM pastor, had accused the church of being behind his incarceration for nine years without trial, over alleged armed robbery.

Jimoh, who disclosed this in an interview with Yoruba Gidi TV, alleged that his trial started when he met the chief security officer of Pastor Daniel Olukoya at a native doctor's house.

He said he was beaten and handcuffed while a Divisional Police Officer shot him in the leg.

According to him, his mother and sister went to beg Olukoya on his behalf but he told them that he would be released only if he pleaded guilty in court.

Also, a former usher with the church, Caleb Oloruntele, alleged that the church founder, Olukoya ordered the police to shoot him.

Oloruntele also revealed this in an interview with Yoruba Gidi TV.

According to him, Olukoya wanted him dead because he refused to give false testimony against a pastor he identified as Femi Agboola.

The former usher said he was prosecuted in 2008 without any concrete evidence to prove the allegation made against him.

The Chief Legal Adviser of the church, Davidson Adejuwon, during a press conference in Lagos on Friday, noted that their claims of being in jail for nine years for an offence they did not commit was false, mischievous and misleading.

He accused Pastor Femi of being a serial offender in the ministry.

He narrated two incidents in Warri and Ibadan that he claimed showed Pastor Femi's character while he was with MFM.

He said, "Their claims of being locked up in jail for nine years for an offence they did not commit was false, mischievous and misleading. Pastor Femi has been a serial offender in the ministry.

"If not forgiveness and magnanimity, what other reason or factor that will make an organization to keep giving its offending staff another chance after every offence committed?"

"It's actually absurd to imagine that the church as big as MFM will go so low to frame up two of his ministers, just because of a claim which is even false."

"They were never locked up for nine years, they were granted bail but nobody went to secure their bail. They chose to remain in the custody."

"As such, a case of planned armed attack on credible intelligence against the church which could have led to the death of any member cannot be treated and handled internally by the church."

“We must report such to the law enforcement agency saddled with the responsibilities to investigate and deal with such issues. And that was exactly what we did as a responsible church.”

Michael Gbadamosi, the chief security officer of Pastor Olukoya whom Pastor Femi accused of meeting at a native doctor's house in Ogbomoso, was present at the briefing.

He described the claim as untrue.

"I know that Ogbomoso is in Nigeria, but I Michael Olawale Gbadamosi, have never been to Ogbomosho before," he said.

However, a July 2016 ruling of a Lagos State High Court at Igbosere acquitted and discharged Jimoh and two others charged with conspiracy to rob the church.

The other defendants in the case were Henry Aiyewero and Caleb Oloruntele.

Justice O. A. Williams in her ruling said, "I therefore find that the Inference that there is an agreement between the defendants to commit the crime of robbing MFM church cannot be made."

"The prosecution not having proved its case, there is no burden on the defendants to prove their defence. I find and hold that the prosecution has failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. The defendants are therefore acquitted and discharged."

Beyond that, one of the exhibits presented in court by the prosecution was a video recording of when the suspects met in a bar to allegedly conspire to rob MFM.

However, according to the testimony of the manager of the hotel in a court document obtained by SaharaReporters, the prosecution witnesses 'stage-managed' the setting.

He said he permitted a friend of one of the prosecution witnesses to use the hotel's bar for a movie.

The hotel manager said he was shocked to later find out that some of the 'actors' had been put in jail.

The court document read, "Paul Effiong the manager of Jethro Hotel testified as DW5 (Defence Witness 5). He stated that PW1 (Prosecution Witness 1- Adebayo Fatai, who testified as a security guard at Savannah Bar in Onike) and PW3 (one Akeem Asalu) are his customers. He deposed that he was informed by one Orji, PW3's friend that movie would be shot at the hotel's bar and happily gave his consent.

"He narrated how about 11 people including PW1, PW3, Orji and the defendants came for the video shoot and how it was set. He was shocked to see the defendants on television and to hear that they were robbers about a month later."

"He stated that he was suspended at work for about a month for permitting the shoot and eventually sacked. When he met up with PW1, PW3 and Orji after he got a new job and brought up the issue of the movie, Orji told him there was no movie, that what it was an arranged work, a business deal."

"When he probed him further, PW1 gave him a phone number, which he called and he spoke to a lawyer who told him the three people involved were in prison."

"Under cross-examination, he stated that he worked in Jethro Hotel in Iwaya between July 2007 and 19/04/08 and that the video was shot in the bar of the hotel. He added that he was sacked because he did not inform the management or get approval before he allowed the film to be shot at the hotel."

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MFM Expose Commentary 3 - Voodoo Priest's Son Testifies, Charm Categories & Spiritual Implications
Ebenezer Gabriels Media


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1c3EHLS2v0

Testimony and Commentary include:

The Voodoo Priest's Son comes out with testimony.
Names 4 categories of charm ordered by the CSO Gbadamosi of MFM Church
What are the charms to be used for?
Was the CSO acting in Proxy?
Why would a CSO need a crowd-puller charm?
Why would a CSO need bulletproof charm, forgetfulness charm, and dominion charm?
The Levitical records on laying on of hands on the head of a scapegoat.
What is written about transference of sinful burdens on the head of a goat?
Pastors laying on hands wrongly
What are the spiritual implications of laying on hands in such an environment?
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This is a humanitarian crisis. If the Christian Association of Nigeria and the PFN are still alive, speak up. Dr. Olukoya must then come forward to present your version of Pastor Femi Jimoh, and Caleb Oloruntele's allegations to the world.

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#MFM
#bbc

MFM PASTOR FEMI'S 9 YRS. JAIL SAGA; What It Says About The Church & Human Right--Comrade Akinyemi
Asabe Afrika TV


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RRjYTBI-sg?si=yud7EFP-bWEYD78q

AMBASSADOR COMRADE KEHINDE AKINYEMI (JP) is the Founder/CEO Mediation, Conciliation and Human Right Centre (MCHR) Ibadan Oyo State (South Western Nigeria).

The former Director, Social Welfare Services, Ministry of Women Affairs and Community Development, Oyo State is a seasoned Human Rights Advocate who have settled several family and community conflicts in the last 45 Years both through the civil service structure and private service.

In Year 2015, Oyo State Government honored him with the Justice of the Peace of Oyo State of Nigeria by the Government of His Excellency, Senator Abiola Ajimobi of blessed memory.

Comrade Akinyemi is also a United Nation’s Peace Ambassador and recipient of several awards on conflict resolution home and away.

He is equally the National President cum Global Ambassador for Child Growth Concern Initiative (CGCI) with affiliated representative across Africa and Europe.

During an exclusive encounter with Asabe Afrika TV on Wednesday June 19, Year 2024 in the city of Ibadan, Oyo State, the veteran rights activist cum conflict resolution expert opened up on his life as Human Right advocate and why the human right abuse index is growing at a frenetic rate in Nigeria.

He also spoke on the alleged wickedness of a popular Church, Mountain of Fire and Miracle to some of her employers and members (Pastor Femi Jimoh and others) who allegedly spent 9 years in jail and why such victims should awaken valuable instruments of law to seek for redress in a proper court of law in other to redeem their self esteem.

In this PART 2 of the interview, Ambassador Akinyemi spoke on the missing point between forgiveness and ethical Christianity and why the MFM leadership erred as an alleged church of God.

Find out more in this PART 2 of the exclusive interview.

Enjoy!