The pastor says he needs close to 1 million to restore his eyesight
61-year-old Lawrence Okechukwu Amuruche, a pastor at the Alakija, Satelite town branch of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), is seeking for financial help to restore his failing eyesight.
Narrating his situation to correspondents from The Sun, Pastor Amuruche said he had been struggling with eye cataract for over a year, which has already grown on one eye and threatening to start growing on the second eye if medical help does not come fast.
He said: โI noticed my eyes always scratch me and at a point my vision changed, my sight became blurring. I told my wife about it, she looked into my eyes and told me there was a growth forming in my eyes. So, we sought medical advice.โ
The optician they visited, for medical advice, informed him that he had developed an eye cataract and that the only way it can be treated is surgery. โI went to an optician in the estate where I live who told me that it is cataract and that the only way out is surgery. Initially, I didnโt know what the problem was because I have not experienced it before and it is not in my lineage. So, we went to Eye Foundation Hospital, Ikeja, for treatment.โ
โAt the hospitalโ, Pastor Amuruche continues, โthey said I should provide N450,000 per eye. That is N900,000 for the two eyes but I cannot afford it. I did an eye test for which I paid N130,000 pending the time I will get money for the surgery. But I have not been able to raise money and my situation is getting worse by the day.โ
He said he sought for alternative treatment but the effort to Isiukwuato LGA, Abia State, when he heard that a group of opticians flew in from the United States to help people with eye problems free-of-charge was futile, โI spent five days there but I could not do the surgery because the crowd was much. That is how I have been going around for assistance and now it is moving to the other eyeโ, he stated.
Pastor Amuruche was asked if the church has made an effort to assist him and he replied: โI have gone to my General Overseer for money to do the surgery. To get him was a problem. It was just last week that I was able to get him. But instead of giving me money to do the surgery, he gave anointing oil, prayer points and water to be washing my face. I told him that I have prayed. I have been doing fasting and have been doing vigils concerning the eyes. But it has been deteriorating. If my coming out to seek for help will lead to my sack, let him sack me and I will go instead of losing my eyes in the name of ministry. And I will not be able to minister, I will not pastor and I will be in the house and they will not pay me.โ
