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Abuja based Pastor and General Overseer of Firehouse
Church International Worship Centre Bishop Emmanuel Esezobor has issued a
seven-day ultimatum to the publishers of The Nation Newspaper to
retract an allegation levelled against him through its online
publication of 28th January 2020.
The story captioned "DRAMA AS MAN DIES IN COFFIN AFTER
ABUJA PASTOR ALLEGEDLY PAID HIM N500,000.00 FOR MIRACLE SCAM" alleged
that the man of God paid a sum of N500,000 for a fake miracle that later
claimed the life of an unnamed trader in Abuja.
In a letter dated 30th January 2020 by his solicitors,
G.O.C Owo & Co , Bishop Emmanuel Esezobor demanded the followings as
a relief
Retraction of the story in its entirety, an apology
published in Six National Newspapers including The Nation Newspaper,
the delete of the unsubstantiated story as from its website as well as
payment of Two Billion Naira (N2,000,000 only) for the damages to his
person and reputation
Failure to oblige as requested, the Bishop threatens to
institute legal action against The Nation Newspaper and its publishers
at the expiration of the seven-day ultimatum.
It would be recalled that the same allegation being
recircled was first made in 2016 , the Bishop came out to unequivocally
deny it.
The story resurfaced again four years after its publication.
This was the copy of the letter sent to The Nation Newspaper by the solicitors to Bishop Emmanuel Esezobor
30th January, 2020
Our Ref: GO/LP/2020/07
THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The Nations Newspaper Online
c/o The Nations Newspapers Abuja Office
Zone 3, Abuja FCT
Sir,
DEMAND FOR APOLOGY AND RETRACTION OF YOUR ONLINE PUBLICATION
RE: DRAMA AS MAN DIES IN COFFIN AFTER ABUJA PASTOR ALLEGEDLY PAID HIM N500,000.00 FOR MIRACLE SCAM
We are Solicitors to FIREHOUSE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL
WORSHIP CENTRE, NYANYA ABUJA FCT and BISHOP EMMANUEL ESEZOBOR
(hereinafter referred to as “Our Clients”) and on whose behest and
unequivocal instructions we write:
It is our clients’ briefing that your Online Newspaper published on the 28th day of
January, 2020 and posted by one Abiola Paul refers under the caption and wordings inter alia:
“Drama as man dies in Coffin after Abuja Pastor allegedly paid him N500k for Miracle Scam
According to multiple social media sources, an Abuja
Pastor who paid a man N500,000 to use him as a miracle scam has been
nabbed after the man died.
Below is what Chinasa wrote……………
Meet the Abuja Pastor That Offered A Trader 500,000 For Miracle Scam That Went Bad.
An Abuja pastor offered a trader 500,000 for the trader
to be used as a miracle scam. The Trader was to pretend that he was a
dead man and the Pastor will then raise him from the death
unfortunately, the trader died in coffin before they could make it to
the stadium where the pastor was holding his crusade in Abuja.
The wife of the deceased trader got police involved, the fake Pastor was arrested by the police.
However, the pastor has been released through the help
of his influential friends in Abuja and he has gone back to the business
performing strange miracle in his church in Nyanya Abuja
The name of the pastor is Bishop Emmanuel Esezobor and
his ministry is Firehouse Church, located beside Niger-Delta Gardens and
Hotels Checking Point Nyanya.
The so-called Bishop Emmanuel Esezobor pastors the
hurch with his wife and they have huge number of people to come to their
church for miracle and solution to their problems'.
It is our clients’ briefing that the entire content of
the said publication published by you are fake, false, untrue,
unfounded and maliciously conceived out of the figments of mischief
makers imagination with the sole intent to bring our clients’ into
disrepute, cause general and global public outcry against our clients’,
rejection, stigmatization and total abandonment of our clients who
currently have over 100,000 members and followers.
Also , it is our clients’ briefing that you retract,
delete and reverse the ill-opinionated content of the said publication
and tender an unreserved apology, a full page publication of the said
apology be published the same in Six (6) National Dailies including your
Newspaper namely: The Guardian, The Punch, This Day, The Sun, Vanguard
and The Nations within seven (7) days from the date of receipt of this
letter.
it is our clients’ firm instruction that pursuant to
this matter, your publication has maligned, misled the general public
and has greatly affected the membership of the church thus, we therefore
instructed to demand the sum of N2,000,000,000.00 (Two Billion Naira)
Only as financial cost to remedy the damage your malicious, scandalous
and image tarnishing publication has already cost our clients. Yet,
there is immeasurable, incalculable and unquantifiable faith damage
which the same publication has caused on the Body Of Christ and our
Belief System.
Furthermore, it is our clients’ briefing that should you
fail to comply as stated we shall take legal recourse against you to
protect the rights and privileges of our clients’ under our laws.
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