[size=14pt]B-i-z-a-r-r-e!! Church where people strip n[i]a[/i]ked[/size]
By Albert Akpor

WHEN in 2006, the story of the sacrilegious activities of one Emeka Ezeugo alias ‘Reverend King’ of the Christ Praying Assembly (CPA) located somewhere on Ajao estate, Lagos hit the town, it sounded more fictional than factual until those who actually tasted the bitter pills of the self~ acclaimed `Jesus of our time` came out in their numbers to testify to his ungodly activities.

His trials and subsequent conviction by a Lagos high court however put paid to the fact that most Pentecostal churches today, are far from preaching and practising the gospel as contained in the Holy Bible.
Curiously, while the hazy dust razed in the Reverend King saga is yet to settle in the eyes of many, a similar bizarre activities seemed to be going on in another Lagos church again.

The church, christened Christian Bible Ministry (CBM), is located in an obscure area on Dunamis Street behind Apakun Saw Mill, along Murtala Mohammed Airport Road, Mafoluku, Oshodi, not too far from Reverend King's CPA in such manner that it is ordinarily difficult to know if there was any building in that area.

There is no banner nor signboard as is common with most churches today to depict that a church is located in there. Reports said the church, which started over 20 years ago in a village in Imo State and was founded by one Reverend Barnabas who had since been allegedly edged out by other pastors who served under him for his alleged hardline stand and is now fully enmeshed in absurdities.

Saturday Vanguard scooped that one Pastor Emeka Okafor who succeeded Reverend Barnabas died shortly afterwards following an alleged curse laid on him by the said aggrieved Reverend Barnabas.

However, a twist was said to have been introduced into doctrines of the church after the wife of the late Pastor Emeka, Prophetess Felicia Okafor, formed a separate ministry under the same church and named it Ministry of Sacrifice.

This, she did, after she reportedly returned from a fasting and praying exercise on an unnamed mountain of God. The Ministry which underwent metamorphosis from the original ˜Sacrifice to ˜Separation and then ˜Raising the Dead was for specific members of the church who were ready to sacrifice all they had, including separating from their respective spouses.

Smarting from the mountain of God, the prophetess was said to have called members of her ministry to tell them that God revealed to her that what could not be achieved by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden would be fulfilled in her.

She was reported to have told the congregation that members were now brothers and sisters and therefore, there was nothing to hide from each other.

To buttress her claims, she allegedly stripped herself naked before the congregation and instructed each member to follow suit. The implication was that all of them are now one. In addition, a married female member from that day on was barred from having anything to do with her husband sexually. She is subsequently assigned to a brother in the Ministry.

If perceived to be having sexual relationship with her legitimate husband, she would be termed to have committed adultery. The punishment is 14 strokes of an armoured cable and grinded pepper in her private part. Same thing goes with male members.

A sister named Chinyere was reportedly beaten to pulp and candle stick inserted into her private part allegedly on the instruction of the Prophetess for reportedly committing fornication with a male member of the church. She left the church without hesitation. Another sister, Mrs Stella Goodnews whose husband is a Pastor in the church also suffered similar fate.

She was allegedly stripped naked as is the custom, flogged severally and grinded pepper poured into her private part for confessing that she fornicated with her husband.

After her ordeal, she reportedly suffered two miscarriages and a doctor later confirmed that she may not be able to bear children any longer as she had developed inflamation in the womb.

Seven members of the church who left on discovering the unethical practice there were said to have died under mysterious circumstances. However, the bubble there, here the bubble burst recently after a Pastor in the church, Friday Oforegbu, could no longer withstand the excruciating pains of 17 strokes of the armoured cable and peppery substance rubbed on his body that he had to ran to the X-Squad at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, for refuge.

Sources said Pastor Oforegbus grievances was further aggravated after his wife, Jocintha, was assigned to one brother Paul, which meant he could no longer relate with his wife as a husband. His report, therefore, prompted detectives who stormed the church and got its key members, including the General Overseer, Pastor Vincent Uzuegbu arrested for questioning.

But when Saturday Vanguard was able to locate the church on Sunday August 30, 2009 at about 4.30pm after a painstaking search and met Pastor Uzuegbu, he described the allegations as lies, greed and quest for position. The fair complexioned well built and handsome Pastor who was leaning close to his Hummer Jeep which has its plate number customised and marked Okenna 1(meaning strong father or Share from God the Father in Igbo translation), exclaimed and said, My brother, God bless you for coming to know the truth.

I know those who gave you the story because they are those we sent away from this church because of their promiscuity. All they have told you are lies borne out of greed and unguided ambition for position.
Yes, some of the questions you asked are true. But most are fabricated. Perhaps, you may want me to take you to the history of the church.

The Christian Bible Mission is an old church which started in a village in Imo State about 29 years ago. I came to join them some 15 years ago when the church was in a primary school in Amukoko in Lagos. The original founder was Reverend Barnabas Iwundu who left in the face of glaring irreconcilable differences with key members.

It was after he left that Pastor Emeka Okafor and his wife, Prophetess Felicia took over the mantle of leadership of the church. But we still relate with Reverend Barnabas today as the founder of the church.

Even when we wanted to register the church, we approached him three times to tell him about the need to get the church registered but he drove us out of his house.

But at the Corporate Affairs Commission, and of course,on certificate of registration, his name is there as one of the board of trustees. To tell you the truth, Reverend Barnabas left the church when it was discovered that he was not practising what he preached. The church headquarters was in Ogba under him but go there today, it has collapsed because he was fornicating with female members.

But when Reverend Barnabas was called on a GSM number provided, a little girl's voice was heard and she said, My daddy is not around now, please call back around 8.00pm. However, when the line was called back, it was switched off.
Continuing, Pastor Uzuegbu said, Prophetess Felicia is one woman of God that is so blessed and filled with the holy spirit of God. She was the one that founded the ˜Ministry of Sacrifice, a praying ministry in the church. What the ministry stands for is simple: detaching oneself from earthly things.

Raising the dead ministry which they also told you also means resurrecting members from sins, it does not mean physically raising a dead person. We do not raise dead persons here.

The fact that brothers are assigned to sisters or vice versa, it also means that one person is acting as a watch dog to the other. My brother, the ministry of sacrifice is such a strong one so much so that many members clamour to join. If Pastor Friday is saying that he was flogged that is why he left, that means he has forgotten that he was the Provost Marshal of the church.

He was responsible for flogging erring members. In fact, when Pastor Austin Okocha confessed that he lust after a lady who exposed half of her breasts while on alms begging, it was Pastor Friday Oforegbu who flogged him before the congregation.

So, when Sister Hope confessed that she was fornicating with Pastor Friday, there was no option than to visit the corporal punishment on him too.

It is the tradition! It may also interest you that Pastor Friday embezzled the church money and as I speak with you now, he still has a case with the Satellite Town Police Station.

The Sister Stella you are talking about, she came here with the disease, and I know the personal sacrifices I played to see that she was let off the grip of the disease. I prayed and prayed and became tired and resolved to seek orthodox medicine advice.

She has even infested her husband with the venereal disease. That we do something immoral here is like giving a dog a bad name in order to hang it.

If they tell you that we beg for alms, that is correct because we cannot go stealing. We suffered to get this building erected.

There is nowhere we did not go for financial assistance to no avail. It was through personal efforts and sacrifices that we are where we are today.

So, if they say we strip naked and all that, I leave them to God to judge. The case is before the police and I am sure the truth will prevail.

At the SCID Panti, the Officer- in- Charge (OC), Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Solomon Arase said the matter was still with his X-Squad Department, I have asked the IPO to do a thorough investigation of the matter. The allegations raised are very sensitive. The police will not allow itself to be used to achieve a selfish end. But if the allegations come out true, then the law will take its due course.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/b-i-z-a-r-r-e-church-where-people-strip-n[i]a[/i]ked/

Dated September 4, 2009.

Regardless of the above, I have seen many an atheist call the Old Testament god murderous, blood thirsty etc.

The question usually is, why should god say "thou shalt not kill" and either "instruct" his people to kill or go on a rampage himself.

The usual reply is "god is not subject to laws" (or something of that nature).

However, when a pastor/prophet/seer/holy man is caught with his pants down and claims the holy spirit was in control, the christians are quick to deny the man of god. They reverse the argument. Adultery/fornication is a sin. It cannot be from god they say. The laws of god are perfect.

COULD the Holy Spirit have removed the pants and skirt of a lady as claimed by a pastor while praying for her?


The pastor who was still being investigated by the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the Oyo State Police Command, over allegation of rape, told his interrogators that he only watched the lady’s pants and skirt being removed by the Holy Spirit while he prayed for her.

The minister, Pastor J. Odesola of the Christ Rock Apostolic Church, Agbala Imole, Olodo, Ibadan, allegedly had carnal knowledge of a 17-year-old Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate on Thursday, 15 April, 2010, on the pretext that he was performing deliverance for her.

The lady (names withheld), told Sunday Tribune that on Monday, 12 April, 2010 at 2 p.m, she had gone to see Pastor Odesola for prayer over a dream her mother had concerning the UTME she was to sit for on Saturday, 17 April, 2010.

She continued: “My mother advised me to see the pastor for prayers so that I won’t have any problem with the exam.

“He told me it was the spirit that has been tormenting my parents that was also tormenting me. He called it the spirit of disappointment.

“The pastor told me to come for a programme on Wednesday, 14 April, 2010 tagged Atamatase and also for a special prayer the next day (Thursday 15 April, 2010) to cast away the evil spirit from me.

“On that Thursday, as I arrived the church at 7.30 p.m, Pastor Odesola instructed me to stay in the church because some visitors were with him in the vestry.

“At 8 p.m, he asked me to come into the vestry. He asked if I was ready for the prayer and I said yes. He told me to stand up, placed one hand on my head and the second hand on my chest.

“He murmured some words into my ear and blew air on my face, commanding the evil spirit to come out of me.

“May be I slept off at that moment, I can’t remember. I just found myself on the floor when I woke up, no strength was left in me. He pushed my blouse up and placed a Bible on my tommy.”

“He was now praying, quoting Bible verses. After that, he fondled my navel, blew air on my face again. He touched my forehead. I did not react. He touched my chest and placed his hand on my tommy; he tickled me at my lower abdomen, then waited to know my reaction.

“He got up, moved about the room, which was not properly illuminated, casting out demons. At this point, I slept off again. When I woke up, I noticed my pant and skirt had been removed. The pastor was not in the room.

“Few minutes after, Pastor Odesola came in, he climbed over me. I tried to push him away but I was too weak. He asked if I don’t want to be delivered.

“I slept off again, but when I woke up I noticed his finger was in my private part. He fondled my breast. I struggled to remove it but he charged at me saying I should relax, that he was casting out the demons in me. He now said: “Jesu Oluwa wa, adura re tigba.”

“He held me to himself, forced me to sit down because I was still on the floor. He took a torch, showed me fluid on the ground under my legs. He said it was urine I passed out during the deliverance prayer. He then said: “pelu eleyi to jade nisisiyi, isegun tide.”( with this out of you, your prayer has been answered.)

“Pastor Odesola told me not to feel disturbed, assuring me that I will pass the UTME. He returned my She said further: “I had to call my aunty because I was so disturbed. I could not revise for the exam again. Whenever I opened my book, what I saw was the picture of the man and the scene.

“That was how my parents knew what happened. My parents were enraged, my mummy collapsed two times over it because everybody blamed her for asking me to go and see the pastor.”

The matter was reported at the Area Command Office, Testing Ground and the pastor was picked by the police on Wednesday, 21 April, 2010.

During interrogation, he was asked if he had seen the lady’s unclothedness and he said, “yes.”

But when the police demanded to know who removed the lady’s pants, Pastor Odesola said it was the Holy Spirit. They asked him to perform same miracle on a police woman interrogating him for her pants to be removed by the Holy Spirit, but he kept quiet.

The parents of the girl took her for medical examination and the report indicated that the girl had bruises on her private part. The girl also claimed to have lost her virginity in the process.

However, the members of the pastor’s church, who came to see the pastor at the police station, defended their pastor who they called “Daddy.” They said their “Daddy” was not that kind of person. They even accused the lady of framing the story.

Pastor Odesola, who was on Friday, 23 April, 2010 moved to the SCID, Iyaganku, Ibadan said he neither fondled the girl’s breasts nor thrust his fingers in her private part.

Whereas he denied having sexing with her, he admitted that he placed his hand on her private part and on her breast while praying for her.

Meanwhile, the Federation of International Women Lawyers (FIDA), Oyo State chapter has declared its interest in the case.

Speaking with Sunday Tribune, the state treasurer, Mrs. Dupe Awosemusi, said FIDA was actually concerned about the girl’s life.“We don’t know what the pastor has taken from her since she was not conscious in the course of the session,”FIDA said.

“We are also bothered about the security of life of the girl. When you talk of Christendom, this man, being a pastor, is a slap on the body of Christ.

“Things like this should not be covered up. There are so many cases of rape and child abuse nowadays. It was either the suspects were looking for money or spiritual power,”she stated.

The Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Olabisi Okuwobi, confirmed the story, saying the pastor would appear in court after investigation.
http://www.tribune.com.ng/sun/index.php/features/918-holy-spirit-removed-her-pants-says-pastor-accused-of-having-sex-with-student-inside-the-church

They asked him to perform same miracle on a police woman interrogating him for her pants to be removed by the Holy Spirit,but he kept quiet

Interestingly, some would validate this on the premise that god cannot be commanded at the will of man.

Mr_Anony:
What Martian is demanding is unreasonable as it reduces God to some sort of mechanism that can be summoned at will, somewhat like a genie from a magic lamp.........but God is not subject to mans will.
What martian wants as proof for God cannot be God. What Martian wants is an idol.

Dear friend:
It is not surprising that a pastor to do that sort of thing ...
Rap.e, pedo.philia, theft ... everything can be expected of them.