Collins Edomaruse, media aide to Prof. Olukoya, confirmed in a statement that US-based Nigerian blogger, Funke Ashekun has been fined $50,000 for defaming Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) and its General Overseer, Prof. Daniel Olukoya.
The judgment took place at a Baltimore County Circuit Court in the United States of America (US), presided over by Theresa Adams.
The jury found that the postings of Ms. Ashekun had defamed the Mountain of Fire and shown its pastors in a false light.
The judgment in the matter with Case Number: C-03-CV-22-004424, the court returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Mountain of Fire USA and its three pastors, Grace Ugeh, Kunle Ladipo, and Adekunle Adekola.
Ashekun, who recently relocated to the United States. She has through social media, spread all manners of lies against the MFM Church and its General Overseer with the ambition of tarnishing and damaging the reputation of the respected Man of God and that of his ministry – MFM.
She believed that she can hide in the U.S. and successfully continue the job of her bankrollers to ridicule and tarnish the image of the MFM and its General Overseer, she refused to heed all Godly counsel for her to retrace her steps and refrain from her self-destructive mission.
The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (U.S) therefore successfully prosecuted its claims against her which did not last for a year.
The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry’s lead counsel, Gilbert Garcia, said the “Church was gratified that the jury found in favor and vindicated our position”.
