The General Overseer of the Manna Prayer Mountain Worldwide Church, Bishop Chris Kwakpovwe, has denied allegations by a church member, Mrs Tamara Egbedi, that she lost seven teeth and had a fractured jaw during the church programme on January 22, 2010.
Mrs Egbedi sued the church and Bishop Kwakpovwe for the injury she allegedly sustained during the church programme.
The cleric said the church cared for her.
Kwakpovwe, who spoke with The Nation, said he did not know Mrs Egbedi.
He said: “This girl is behaving as if she knows me and as if I invited her one-on-one for the programme. I have nothing against her, but I think she is after something.
“She said we did not care about her, but it is a lie. All the people who took up the case with her are in a syndicate. They all plan to share the money, if she wins the case. I was advised not to see her because we felt she was up to something as she was requesting to see me.”
Kwakpovwe said the church offered her N150,000 out of benevolence, being a charity organisation.
“Rather, she was threatening and putting fire into the whole thing. My wife appealed to her but she insisted on taking the matter to court. All these attacks are distractions,” he said.
His wife, Ejiro, added that the church showed Egbedi sufficient care.
She added: “Immediately Mrs Egbedi fell at the programme, she refused treatment. We had ambulance, doctors and nurses, but she refused to be treated. She was also taken to the man of God to lay hands on her to pray, but she refused. She was boiling and saying her lawyers were waiting. This made us feel something was fishing.
“We later invited her to the church, as she was insisting to see the bishop. Some other ministers and I offered to help her, but she insisted to see the bishop.
“She said she would not have any husband because of the (missing) teeth. But I told her God would send her a husband. Today, she is married.
“We also took her to a dentist. We tried all we could to solve the problem, but she insisted on seeing the bishop. This made us to feel that something was fishing.”
She urged Mrs Egbedi to allow peace to reign.