The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry and its General
Overseer, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, has filed a libel suit against Sahara Reporters
and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, demanding N10billion in damages.
In the suit filed before the Akwa Ibom State High Court in
Uyo, Olukoya said he took the legal action against Sowore, his online platform,
Sahara Reporters Incorporated and the Incorporated Trustees of Sahara Media
Foundation for their alleged failure to desist from publishing malicious
articles against him and his church, MFM, since 2013.
The cleric noted that despite complaints, Sowore and his Sahara
Reporters remained adamant and continued to publish offending stories about him
and his church adding that he had earlier demanded that they pull down all the
offending stories against him and his church they refused.
The Incorporated Trustees of Mountain of Fire and Miracles
Ministries were listed as the first claimant while Olukoya was the second
claimant in the suit marked HU/250/2018.
Joined as defendants were Sowore, Incorporated Trustees of
Sahara Media Foundation and Sahara Reporters. Apart from the N10billion
damages, the cleric and his church are praying the court to order the
defendants to “pull down and erase each of the offending stories from the
Internet forthwith.”
They also want the court to compel Sowore and Sahara
Reporters to “tender a written apology and retraction, published prominently in
their online news report and in at least three nationally circulating
newspapers and two international magazines, including TIME International.”
The claimants are also praying for an order of perpetual
injunction, “restraining the defendants by themselves, their agents, servants,
privies or other persons, howsoever called or described from further publishing
and/or disseminating libelous stories and statements against the claimants.”
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