Apostle Johnson Suleman sacks branch pastor for participating in MMM

A pastor in one of the Nigerian branches of
Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide has been
expelled from the ministry.
According to a statement signed by Pastor David
Apelorioye, the head of admin at OFM, Pastor
Joseph Aiyedun, who is in charge of one the OFM
branches in Aba, Abia State, was fired for
participating in the Mavrodi Mondial Movement
(MMM), a ponzi scheme widely acclaimed to be a
satanic venture.
It should be recalled that the founder and
president of the OFM, Apostle Johnson Suleman,
at a church service in November 2016, warned
members of his congregation against involving in
MMM, calling it 'demonic'.
The statement from the church reads thus; "The
management of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide
is using this medium to react to a news making
the rounds on the social media regarding one of
his pastors who used the ministry's name to
register for the MMM scheme. Ordinarily, the
church would not have reacted to the story
because of falsehoods being published regularly
by some blogs and news websites whose
credibility are questionable. But after a thorough
investigation by the church authority, it was
established that one of our branch pastors in Aba,
Pastor Joseph Aiyedun, indeed participated in the
scheme."
The statement adds that the erring pastor was
sacked after a thorough investigation and it was
discovered that he used the name of the church
to register for MMM, thereby denting the
ministry's image in the public eye. It was
gathered that the erring pastor would have just
been disciplined in line with the church rules if he
had registered for the scheme in his personal
capacity but because he used the ministry's
name for the scheme, he was asked to go.
"The church authority decided to expel Pastor
Aiyedun not because he registered for the ponzi
scheme but because he involved the ministry's
name in the satanic adventure. And we
discovered that he was able to use the ministry's
name because he had access to the account of
his branch which itself is against the church's
guidelines and a fraud likely to have been carried
out in connivance with the branch's account
department. We are still investigating further to
unravel the whole activities."
The statement therefore appeals to the general
public to disregard any news being passed
around about Omega Fire Ministries involving in
the MMM scheme or any scheme of its kind
because it is not true.
"Of the OFM's 200 churches in Nigeria alone and
its 800 branches in 51 nations of the world, it is
possible for any of the pastors to go astray and
be corrected. In fact, we discovered that Pastor
Aiyedun, including some other members of OFM,
did the scheme before our father, Apostle
Johnson Suleman made the warning last year
against MMM, but Pastor Aiyedun was fired
because he did it with the ministry's name as the
OFM rules forbid any of its pastors access to the
account except people in the account
department."
It was gathered that to enable him look after his
family whilst he searches for other things to do in
life, the church paid the sacked pastor a full one
year salary ahead on the instruction of Apostle
Suleman who was not available for comments at
press time.