Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, Founder of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria has disclosed that he spends over $2 million on monthly basis for the numerous charity works he embarks on.
Mbaka revealed this just after he presented ₦18.8 million to the management of Annunciation Specialist Hospital, Emene, Enugu.
The presentation was made on behalf of Multi-Life Savers for the Less Privileged, a non-governmental unit of his Adoration ministry.
200 members of the Charismatic Renewal of Nigeria were selected and given ₦10 million and one bag of rice each.
According to Father Mbaka, the N18.8 million was to help with free medical services that the hospital had offered to poor people on his bill.
The free medical services were worth over ₦14 million, while the remainder will serve as a deposit for other needy patients that would need the services of the Catholic health facility in future.
According to him, they do this on a daily basis and record has it that he spends at least $2 million on charity silently.
Mbaka noted that the hospital is one of the places where his foundation always referred poor people to; to receive medical care and save them from dying.
He said: “We are basically here to continue the relationship that this wonderful health facility has with our charity organisation and Adoration Ministry, Enugu.
“We presented a bank draft worth ₦ 18.8 million to them to cover the accumulated bills of indigent patients they had treated at our instance, plus a deposit for other indigent patients that would come here in future,” he said.
“We do this every day and it is on record that there is no month that I don’t spend at least $2 million silently, on charity.”
“He went on to note that “this visit is just one out of several charity outings that we undertake without any publicity.“I represent the ministry here, as the chief servant.”
“What we are doing is physical but I am also here, on behalf of the supernatural part of the exercise,” he said.
“This programme is purely inter-religious, inter-tribal and interdenominational. Among the beneficiaries are Catholics, Pentecostals, and Muslims, among others,” he added.