The bible summed it up when it says, “Wonders will take over the
world when the end times are near.” These are obvious end times as the
Armageddon is already here with us. Men of God are beginning to see
themselves as demi gods, and can do anything to get the mouth ajar. They
continue to desecrate the church of God without any explanations to
their congregation. This is the case with Uche Augustina Enechukwu whose
husband, a pastor in charge of the Isachi-based Glorious Deliverance
Ministry (GDM) has been accused of sleeping with his church members. It
was a case of ‘the hunter being hunted’ as the cleric who stormed the
Igando Magistrate court, praying the judge to dissolve his 26-year-old
marriage only to discovered that he’d bitten more than he could chew,
as a group of women, both old and young, who were members of his
congregation stormed the court premises and narrated the shameful story
of the sexual harassments he had subjected them to.
In this show of shame, the cleric fired the first salvo by heading to
the court, praying the judge to dissolve his 26-year-old marriage to
his spouse. The 47-year-old preacher gave his reasons for divorce
arguing that his wife had deprived him of his position as the husband
and head of the family.
“She doesn’t follow my instruction.” It is a case of two captains in a
ship. She wants to be the husband while I become the wife,” he lamented
angrily. Continuing, the father of seven who hails from Anambra State
said: “My wife is a blatant liar and she as well trains the kids with
lies. There is no iota of truth in her mouth. She is against my calling
as a minister of God. In fact, she’s against my ministry,” he said.
However, when his wife rose to present her own side of the case, she
brought a new twist. “My husband is a very randy man,” she said, “He’s a
disgrace to man and God. For many years, I have been trying to condone
his excesses and cover his atrocities, but he wouldn’t change. He had
slept with virtually every female member of hischurch,” she alleged.
The 44-year-old Lady Evangelist affirming that her husband does not
respect his office as an ‘Apostle of the Most High’, claimed that “even
my friends were not left out of the sexual molestations as he always
lure them to his office to have sex in the name of ‘healing and
deliverance’ from evil spirits. I haven’t been privileged to catch him
red-handed but the reports I have been getting are concrete.”
She even recalled a particular occasion whereby her husband had a sexual
affair with a lesbian. She narrated to the court how the ‘possessed’
member of their church unsuccessfully attempted to trick her to have sex
with her. “Unfortunately, the same woman set a similar trap for
Goodness [her husband] and he fell for it, hook, line and sinker. The
same woman came to confess to me that she had sex with my husband
in his office. When I confronted him, he was so reluctant to either
refute or affirm the allegations against him. Several other reports of
his incessant sexual harassments and molestations kept circulating in
the church, thus we have lost most of our once devoted members,” the
court heard from her.
Buttressing claims of her husband’s gross irresponsibility, Augustina
argued further: “I am the one that train our seven children till date.
Two of them are enrolled in a private university where I pay one million
naira annually as school fees for each of them. The ones in secondary
and primary schools are also sponsored by me. My husband contributes
nothing to our welfare. As if that wasn’t enough burden on me already,
after I financed his (her husband’s) Secondary School Certificate
Examination (SSCE) he insisted I see him through the four walls of a
university with his intention to study Political Science. My refusal to
buy that idea was part of the marital problems we are having,” she
affirmed.
Despite his atrocities, Augustina, however, claimed she still loves
her husband and wouldn’t want their marriage severed. And the court
presided over by Mr. Adewale Eko reasoned with her and adjourned the
suit to October 6, 2012, hoping that with time both parties might be
able to settle their differences.
However, more drama ensued outside the court at the end of the
proceeding as female members of the church unabashedly accosted Pastor
Goodness Enechukwu and they created an ugly scene loudly telling
passers-by how they had been victims of his ‘sexual deliverance
session’. They clapped their hands, hoots and wailed at him as he walked
past the Igando Central Market. Attempts to calm the situation, by the
reporter and some court officials proved abortive. The aggrieved women
narrated to onlookers and passers-by their different encounters of
sexual exploitations by the supposed man of God.
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