General Overseer of Lagos-based Liberation City, Pastor Chris Okafor, has described as untrue a front-page story in a popular weekend which accused him of collecting N100,000 from people who want to see him.
Commenting on the shocking story, Okafor said in a statement made available to Qed.ng that “nothing could be farther from the truth.
“To say that people pay N100,000 before seeing me is both outlandish and unimaginable.
“Imagine if all the people who come to the church – over 2000 of them – pay N100,000 before seeing me, then I will be the richest pastor in the world, which is not even what I am after.
“What I am after, for the records, are the one billion souls I want to win for God. Not money, not material acquisition or such things.”
Calling on journalists to their own private investigation, the cleric added that the little money he has goes to charity.
“That is why Liberation City spends millions almost every week supporting widows with both foodstuff and cash.
“We also offer scholarships to the indigent. We have spent millions giving our community here, and even outside, transformers, boreholes, etc.
“We even tarred the major road leading to this place, which I want to believe you saw while coming.”
He said the author of the newspaper story must have written the report from an announcement calling on his church members to support a TV ministry without crosschecking with him.
“I would have taken them up on the matter to bring forward their proof, but as a servant of God, I’ve decided to forgive them for they know not what they do,” he added.
