Incredible Happenings church leader, pastor Paseka “Mboro” Motsoeneng, has denied claims that he was the last person to speak to Shepherd Bushiri before he fled the country.
This was after it emerged at the weekend that Bushiri and his wife Mary had fled to Malawi. They had been granted bail of R200,000 each by the Pretoria magistrate's court on November 4, after being arrested in October for their alleged involvement in fraud and money laundering worth R102m.
Mboro said the last time he met the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church leader was days after he was released on bail.
He said the meeting at Bushiri's home was to stop “the war between them” and correct things in the church and the “image of God”.
In September, Bushiri filed an urgent application in the high court in Pretoria to interdict Motsoeneng from making what he described as “defamatory” statements about him.
However, the application was struck from the roll after the court found that it was not urgent.
Bushiri was slapped with the costs of the application.
Mboro said he had since “ceased fire” and was prepared to mend his relationship with Bushiri.
“I am also shocked, like everyone else. His departure is not the right way to deal with things because there are laws and he was supposed to abide by them. He broke his bail conditions, so he got himself into something very bad.”
He said now that Bushiri is out of the country, he would also not pay for his legal fees after the ruling on their court matter.
“I was waiting for costs to be paid, but now he is gone.”
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