THE Senior Prophet of Christ MercyLand Ministry, Jeremiah
Fufeyin, Sunday, denied using the name of the National Agency for Food and Drug
Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on its spiritual items to deceive
Nigerians.
Fufeyin spoke through his church’s media outfit called
MercyLand Television Deliverance Ministry, which issued a statement signed by
Sophia Iloyd, faulting a media report by one of the national dailies online,
with caption ‘Nafdac Investigating Pastor Jeremiah Miracle Water,Soap-DG’,
pointing out that the publication was false.
According to the statement, Christ Mercy Land Deliverance
Ministry is a law abiding Christian Church and recognize the extant laws of the
land and even the NAFDAC Act in this regard, and as a Christian Association,
“We are guided by Section 39 and 38 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria, that guarantees all Christians and our Church the Right to freedom
of religion without interference whatsoever in this regard.
“It is sequel to that, as a church we have been operating
and guided by the tenets of our faith and biblical injunctions in the holy
bible in this regard. We have been using certain spiritual items in expression
of our religious beliefs.
The statement also asserted that the newspaper via online
publication “in the course of their story also stated and alleged that NAFDAC
wishes to alert the general public on the activities of the church and the
church uses NAFDAC name to deceive unsuspecting public, we wish to state that
at no point our Church has ever deceived or dishonestly deceive any members of
the general public, all the church has done in the entirety of this issue is
the church right to expression of religion through the use of spiritual items,
the church has never even produce or sell to members of the public, consumable
items in this regard.
“We also wish to state that Senior Prophet Jeremiah Fufeyin
of Christ MercyLand Ministry has never used the NAFDAC name as an agency to
deceive innocent members of the public.”
However, as part of putting the records straight as rebuttal
of the online news publication, the statement pointed, “We wish to state that
Christ MercyLand Deliverance Ministry was fully aware that the only pending
petition against our Church is the one by Mr Martins Vincent Otse (alias
Verydarkblackman) who the Church has since sued before the FCT high court on
sundry allegations and matters.
Alleged Complainant forged receipts
“However the church was in receipt of a letter dated the 27th
August 2024 from NAFDAC office extending an invitation to the Spiritual head of
the church on the church miracle and healing spiritual item by the NAFDAC Asaba
Office with the full designation as referenced in this letter.
“It quite unfortunate that as a law abiding organization, we
did officially as an organization wrote to NAFDAC Headquarters office, Abuja on
the short less than 12 hour time frame given to us to appear and by an official
letter communicated our position in this matter to NAFDAC and then also sent
another subsequent letter to NAFDAC.
“We also bring to the fore and knowledge of NAFDAC that the
supposed nominal complainant to NAFDAC Asaba office actually forged the
Church’s receipts in other to close himself with the right to bring a complaint
before the NAFDAC office in this regard.
“We also wish to state that presently there is an ongoing
police investigation of certain receipts that has indicted the nominal
complainants to NAFDAC office , which same receipts is presumed to have been
forged and used falsely in procuring the now investigated spiritual items by
NAFDAC office.
“Moreso it should be noted that the alleged spiritual items
sales receipts of the nominal complainants to NAFDAC in which he purportedly
alleged to have used in evidencing a case in NAFDAC office, a look at same
reveal that the position of the spiritual items receipt number are the same but
different in other particulars with that normally issued by the church
accounting office in the sense that vizaviz : That the nominal complainants
receipts are different from the position in the actual receipt booklet and
receipts in the custody of the church, the dates on the receipt are clearly and
obviously altered different from church client official receipts.
All these issues and narratives as stated above, the church
wrote to the NAFDAC office and we clearly wish to state that NAFDAC till today
never wrote to the church or gave feedback on these issues to the church or our
legal Representative.
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