This is a continuation from my original Enesi Yavala article.

Things had settled down, and we’d got on with our lives … poorer, but hopefully wiser. Then the whole question resurfaced. A fellow called me on the phone (I’ll call him ‘Bob’) and said he had been pastoring Enesi, calling him to account, and walking him through a process of repentance and healing. He had access to some accounts set up by Enesi in Australia, and was able to go about making restitution to people Enesi had been involved with. In fact, Enesi had always been who he presented himself to be in terms of a mover and shaker and very wealthy, but was misguided. Nevertheless, he was responding to Bob’s pastoring efforts. Oh, and the web site I had there was making it hard for Enesi to move on.

I was immediately suspicious. Bob had said he had been a COC pastor, so he was a trustworthy guy. He had all the language right, so rather than just dismissing him out of hand, I looked him up. I found two LinkedIn profiles that corresponded with his name and some information he’d given about his current work situation, but they weren’t in agreement about his periods of work (one says he started in January 2009, the other said he started in June 2010). There was no mention of being a pastor. I looked up the companies that he mentioned on his profile … one is supposed to be a humanitarian organisation, but the web site is in maintenance mode; there are a total of six tweets, all dated from July 17, 2012; the Facebook page has no stories. It was registered with ACNC (Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission) in 2016, but has reported no assets, liabilities or turnover. There is only one volunteer. The other company mentioned has no web presence at all according to Google, except for references to one of Bob’s LinkedIn profile pages. I’ve kept snips of all of these pages, and will publish them along with the URLs if I believe it becomes worthwhile. It’s possible that Bob has been duped by Enesi too, and I don’t want to damage innocent parties.

So Bob got in contact with me. He told me he’d been working with Enesi, and they were working on restitution. They paid back a close friend who had given Enesi money, so my friend was brought back to zero owing. Bob said that there were two Australians working together with Enesi, and the other was a prominent lawyer who was satisfied that everything was on the up and up. I wrote an email to that lawyer asking if he was actually involved with Enesi or Bob, and didn’t receive a response. Talking to a lawyer friend of my own, he said that I should have received an acknowledgement of that email, and if there was any conflict of interest, the response should have been something along the lines of ‘thanks for your email, I’ll respond in due course.’

Then they started putting more pressure on me to take the original web page down. After the initial contact, neither of them attempted to contact me, but worked through my friend. Information that trickled through was that Enesi was starting to move in bigger circles, and my page was causing him embarrassment.

‘[A prominent ex-banking figure] is helping [Bob] with this [transfer of funds] in New York this week and with Enesi’s status and heritage role is a key figure to endorse the funds release. The problem is any blemishes on the reputation or character of Enesi to endorse these funds is detrimental to him being able to approve this funding. Enesi is currently doing business and feels strongly the web presence of the negative report has hurt his business potential re-establish himself in the marketplace and especially now with 3rd party partners in business (corporately) are being maligned and hurt also.’

Then they went on about being grieved over not having been able to talk to me (I had received no calls, texts or emails from either Bob nor Enesi after April 20, 2018), and that they were taking legal action to shut the site down. My friend recommended that I take the site down before litigation began, and said that they were very serious. Enesi wanted desperately not to have this as a legacy to our relationship. I chose to ignore this advice, as I believed at the time that the threats were empty.

Time passed …

On August 6, 2018, I sent an email to my friend saying that the domain name I registered for Enesi (eyavala.com, for which he never paid) was going to expire, and I wasn’t going to spend money to renew it. I had put a redirect on that site so that when you visited it, you’d be redirected to this site with the text ‘Content pending’. In my email I explained my take on things:

  • that Enesi had not changed;
  • that my web site was making it difficult to dupe other people;
  • that he had either duped Bob or engaged him as an accomplice;
  • that they were using him (my friend) to put pressure on me to take down the content.

I understood that he saw things differently, and that he wanted me to extend a level of grace to them. I did that, but I had conditions. I wanted to know how long it would take them to make good on their promises. A bit of back and forth, and the content was removed from Google and Bing search results, and I told them I wanted two things: first, a date by which they would provide a plan of when they would deliver the second thing; and second, their plan to fulfil their promises including dates and amounts.

On August 10, 2018, this turned up:

Enesi was in a bad accident 2 and half weeks ago and not contactable until today – 3 dead, small taxi van – he was asleep in back seat and woke up in a wreck – 4 broken ribs – slow recovery (heavily medicated for pain) , he is catching up on all the communications since then –

So me being me, I went and searched for the image on Google (did you know you can do that?) and found this article … they didn’t mention Enesi’s name.

September 3, 2018 I followed up, asking if they’d come back with a timeframe. Apparently the lawyer was stalling the receipt of ‘such large sums’ into his trust account because of the banks’ tight scrutiny of funds transfers from foreign contries. Enesi was ready and willing, but waiting until the lawyer was comfortable. Having said that, it would be shortly or the end of the month.

October 11, 2018 I followed up again. I said it sounded like the old delays, so I was going to put the content back up. My friend and I discussed this for a bit, and I agreed to hold off until today (November 5). Nothing has happened, so the pages have gone up.

There are a couple of things that I’m expecting when these pages go up:

  • ‘Take it down or we’ll get lawyers involved’
  • ‘We were just about to get back to you with the plan!’
  • ‘We were just about to transfer some money, but now that the content is back up, we can’t in good conscience do that’

I’ll put transcripts of whatever communication is received from either Enesi or Bob on this page, regardless of any instructions to the contrary.