The general overseer of the
Synagogue Church of All Nations
(SCOAN),Pastor T.B Joshua, has
reportedly acquired a luxurious
private jet -Gulfstream G550 aircraft
which costs about $60 Million. The jet is believed to be the most expensive
of the four owned by Nigerian pastors
such as Pastor David Oyedepo
(Bombardier Challenger 604), Pastor
Enoch Adeboye (Gulfstream GIV), and
Ayo Oritsejafor (Bombardier Challenger 601) who are also jet
owners.
Read via Sahara Reporters; Pastor TB Joshua’s jet has already started making the rounds. In June, it
left the Murtala Muhammad
International Airport in Lagos on a
whirlwind of South America, departing
north from there to Kentucky in the
United States. The jet, which has US registration
number N131LK, was built in 2010. It
was delivered to its first user in 2013
before making it to TB Joshua early
this year. SaharaReporters learned
that the jet made a voyage to Nigeria in December 2013, as the Bank of Utah
was apparently pitching it to Pastor TB
Joshua. The man of God reportedly
asked to see it and bless it before
finally taking delivery. It could cost up to $3 million to
maintain the jet annually, depending
on how heavily it is used. Sources at the church told our
correspondents that Pastor Joshua
claims the jet was paid for by at least
eight African Heads of State in 2014. It
was first kept in Israel before the
tragic church collapse in September in which 116 persons, mostly South
Africans, were killed. When SaharaReporters reached Pastor
Joshua, he denied owning a private
jet. Instead, he said he frequently
charters private jets because he travels
extensively, noting, for instance, that
he has an oncoming trip to Argentina. His claim runs contrary to information
from the Nigerian Civil Aviation
Authority (NCAA), which claimed that
N131LK is on record as belonging to
Pastor TB Joshua through SCOAN. "What the Bank of Utah does is to help
non-US citizens act as agents to
purchase aircraft using US financing,”
a source at NCAA told
SaharaReporters.
