BEVERLY HILLS, September 03, (THEWILL) – The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry and its General Overseer, Dr Daniel Olukoya, has filed a libel suit against Sahara Reporters and its publidher, Omoyele Sowore, demanding N10bn in damages.
In the suit filed before the Akwa Ibom State High Court in Uyo, Olukoya said he took 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 false and malicious articles against him and his church, MFM, since 2013.
He stated 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 was 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 N10bn 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 libellous stories and statements against the claimants.”
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