Demolition: MFM church faults Enugu, demands compensation

The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry has demanded an unreserved apology from the Enugu State Government for demolishing its South-East Regional Headquarters One, Enugu.

The church also described the demolition as a violation of the peoples right to worship as it looks forward to a courts decision on the demolition.

PUNCH Metro had reported penultimate week that the 5,000-seat auditorium, which served as the regional headquarters of the church, few metres away from the Zik Avenue Bridge, Uwani, was demolished by officials of the Enugu State Ministry of Capital Territory Development Authority.

Commissioner for ECTDA, Mr. Iyke Ugwegede, had said the structure was demolished because it was about 2,100 square metres plan erected on two plots of land, with a total area of approximately 2,000 square metres.

Ugwegede explained that the structure was illegal, because its application for approval was rejected in March, 2012, adding that the structure was built on waterways and showed many defects.

However, the Chairman, Publicity Committee of MFM, Pastor Oladele Bank-Olemoh, maintained that the structure was not obstructing the flow of the river and also did not encroach on government land as alleged by the commissioner.

He described the demolition as illegal because of a subsisting High Court order.

Bank-Olemoh argued that several other buildings along the same road, where its regional headquarters was demolished, were still standing.

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Demolition: MFM church faults Enugu, demands compensation