The Senior Pastor of Champions Royal Assembly, Kubwa, Abuja, Joshua Iginla on Sunday, gave out 32 cars out of which were 16 SUVs to celebrate his birthday.
Iginla
also gave out money running into several millions of naira to the aged,
widows, orphanage homes and scholarships to orphans from nursery school
to university.
Six Nollywood actors and actresses got Hummer jeep 3 series, Mercedes G-Wagon and Mercedes CLS 550.
They included Jide Kosoko, Francis Duru, Alex Usifo, Ngozi Osondu, Thelma Nwosu and Sunday Omobolanle, popularly known as Aluwe.
Artisans
got generators and cash gifts while the widows got deep freezers, rice
and cash gifts ranging from N150,000 to N1.5 million.
Treasure
Orphanage Foundation, Nyanya, Divine Wound Orphanage, Kubwa and Christ
Home Foundation, Kuje, got N1.5 million each and rice while some orphans
in the homes were awarded scholarships from nursery to university.
Iginla said he had 782 widows and orphans he caters for.
“It doesn’t matter to me if I trek home as I have given even the car that I personally drive.
“I can
only drive one car and live in one house at a time. This understanding
is what has taught me that when I die, others will inherit my assets.
“The
beauty of life is not in its duration but in its donation. I have not
seen some of the beneficiaries before in my life or spoken to them.
“I’m seeing many of them for the first time today. I am seeing Jide Kosoko for the first time”, he said.
Iginla
also said he gave cars to the Nollywood actors because many of them were
poor but people erroneously think they were rich.
According
to him, the fruit of the Nollywood artistes were being reaped by pirates
and challenged government to do something to arrest it.
“The Nollywood actors and actresses are our ambassadors; they have projected the image of this country positively”, he said.
Kosoko, who confirmed he was meeting Iginla for the first time, commended him for his philanthropy.
Iginla had, in 2015, given 18 cars and millions of naira as birthday gifts to people to celebrate his birthday.
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