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Massive Fraud Discovered By The UK Government In Christ Embassy Church (UK)
The UK government has indicted the Christ Embassy Church (UK branch) under the leadership of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome.
The board of trustees of the Church is involved in a wide range of fraudulent practices which include illegally paying more than N827m (£1,767,250) to organizations and entities it’s in close relationship with.
However, the report which was published by the Charity Commission on its website in November 2019 shows that the board of trustees of the church was incriminated for shoddy of church’s account, curious and arbitrary payments, no proper recording of its decision-making process, non-compliance with its grant-making policy and mismanagement in the charity’s administration.
So, evidence reveals that the church may be laundering funds of about N288 m (£615,420.00) from its UK branches to accounts controlled by the Nigerian branch of the church, Christ Embassy Nigeria.
The Charity Commission also discovered three illegally registered properties which were done in the names of two members of its board of trustees, failed to secure adequate insurance, failed to pay taxes worth over £250,000 on expenditures by employees, and violation of the British building and town planning regulations.
The Charity Commission, which regulates charities in Wales and England, therefore, launched a statutory inquiry in 2014 to investigate the Christ Embassy on “several serious concerns relating to the use of funds for charity.
Members of trustees have been interviewed by the commission. Books and records have been checked, still not satisfied that the church has judiciously managed its funds.
The commission appointed Rod Weston of the International Audit and Accounting Firm, to take over the management of the church in what it described as “protective and temporary measure”
The report of the interim manager released on 14th November 2019 therefore says that the scope of the inquiry was to check the church’s transaction with partner organization with grants given to several unidentified entities and Loveworld television, Christ Embassy France, Christ Embassy Canada, Healing School, Rhapsody of realities, and IPCC Conference.
The NBA All-Star game has now to be called The Kobe Bryant MVP Award. NBA commissioner, Adam Silver made this announcement on Saturday 15th February.
The Kobe Bryant MVP Award will be given this Sunday at the closing of this year’s All-Star Game in Chicago. Both teams will be captained by Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lebron James respectively. Team Lebron will put on No 2 and team Giannis will put on No 24. These two numbers were worn by Gianna, Kobe’s daughter and Kobe Bryant.
Recall that Kobe won the All-Star Game MVP in 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011. Also, he played as the youngest player to feature in the All-Star Game at 19 in 1998.
Modibbo Kawu, the DG of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has been put on suspension by President Buhari. This came following his corruption charges by the Independent Corrupt Practices, ICPC.
This development was confirmed by Armstrong Idachaba, NBC’s Director of Broadcast Monitoring. Further, the most senior director in the commission has been directed to take over from Modibbo Kawu.
Modibbo Kawu is currently facing a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering, abuse of office, and misleading a public officer with the intent of defrauding the government.
So, this contravenes Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Act 2000 and punishable under Section 19 of the same Act.
Beisdes, Modibbo was first arraigned in May 2019 over the alleged misappropriation of N 2.5 billion for the digital switch-over (DSO) program of the government.
The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China
