BIG TIME witch-hunter, prosperity preacher and senior pastor of the Living Faith Church, a.k.a. Winners’ Chapel,
Pastor David Oyedepo, has been caught in another controversy – this time, of using mob boss tactics to commit acts bordering on identity theft and fraudulent takeover of properties belonging to one his former associate pastors.
According to information made available to sharpedgenews.com, Pastor Oyedepo is allegedly being investigated for forgery, fraud, wrongful acquisition of his surrogates’ properties and identity theft.
The founding pastor of a branch of the church in New York, Pastor Olakunle Onaleye, alleged that he was intimidated to vacate the ministry he initiated with threats and blackmail by Oyedepo, whom he said was complaining about his messages on credit card scam as being injurious.
Mr. Oyedepo has allegedly used his extensive connections in the media to black out the stories of his shenanigans. He allegedly threatens like a typical voodoo theologian that any exposure of his crimes would summarily lead to the destiny of the reporters being ruined.
But Oyedepo is not God and has no such divine credibility to destroy anyone. So his sins are now finding him out.
Speaking with shapedgenews.com media partner, African Examiner, narrated his ordeal so far at the hands of Oyedepo and his vast network of supporters and abetters, saying chased away from the church by Bishop Oyedepo’s emissaries — senior pastors, who came to New York to forcefully hijack the church and enforce the bishop’s directives.
Onaleye said Oyedepo did not send him to the US to establish the church stressing that he came to America through the green card lottery in which Oyedepo himself has preached against in the past describing it as “modern day slavery.”
Because the Bishop did not believe in the green card lottery, Onalaye stated that the headquarters did not support his relocation to the US, noting that he came on his own, registered the church with his money but when the church began to make money, they became interested.
“They (headquarters) borrowed $31,000 from me; they said they wanted to use it to repair their aircraft in Houston, Texas.
“They returned only $15,000. The problem then started when I asked them to return the balance of the money they borrowed that is all I said, but what I will hear is that Bishop Oyedepo called me to say, in his usual anger, “Onaleye, I hear you want to report to government go ahead, you are playing with your destiny.” Onaleye explained.
After the threat, the Bishop sent his senior pastors to New York to hijack the church. And without his consent, they took over the church’s bank account, changed the account’s mailing address and now operate the church bank account in which Onaleye is the sole signatory.
As a result of this apparent fraud Onaleye said, “the New York Police told me to go and ask Bank of America, how did the people get into the account that I’m the sole signatory and how did they change the mailing address of the account and who authorized it.”
He continued “These are the things that even Bank of America can’t explain and they are carrying out their own investigation now for the past one month.
“These are part of what I am saying that they are fraudulent people. I entered a bank recently to open an account, when they ran my information; they asked me if I’m affiliated to a church that has to do with credit cards?
“Investigation is going on at the highest level and I have written to the government about the issues.
“They have some people who are fraudulent in that church, some of them went to jail when I left the church in New York. I know the extent they can go.”