Aggrieved members/worshipers
of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, South-South Region 11, Town, Port
Harcourt, Rivers State, grounded the Sunday service yesterday, over
alleged mismanagement of church funds and unjustified sack of the pastor.
The infuriated protesters,
who carried placards with different inscriptions, barricaded the entrance to
the church premises with cars, demanding the immediate reinstatement of the
sacked Regional Overseer of the church, Pastor Lanre Adekunle.
The protest which caused
panic in the church brought the Sunday service to an abrupt halt.
A source who related the
development in the church to newsmen, said that there had been several cases of
mismanagement of funds in the church, adding that the church has been unable to
address the situation.
The source revealed that a
few people in the church were diverting church funds to their personal use, stressing
that the cartel had always frustrated any genuine man of God posted to the
church who would not allow the church funds to be embezzled.
Speaking, one of the
leaders of the protest, who is also an elder in the church, Mr. Chukwu
Okorafor, said their anger was about the conspiracy leading to the sack of
Pastor Adekunle, whom he alleged was witch-hunted by the cartel for being
scrupulous with the church funds.
Okorafor said that the
cartel which was always interested in the church funds, stage- managed the sack
of the pastor who was posted to the church two months ago because he was trying
tostop the cartel from diverting church funds.
He said that the only
action that could calm the worshipers was the immediate reinstatement of the
sacked pastor.
He said: “They have
converted what belongs to the church to their personal use.
“Our major concern is that
the same group that has always frustrated the church by embezzling the funds of
the church, wrote a petition demanding the sack of a pastor that came to save
the church from the wickedness of a few persons.
“We will continue this
protest until the General Overseer hears us and brings back our pastor, who is
doing the true work of God in our region.”
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