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Nweze1986:
EVANGELIST EPHRAIM ONONYE: A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING


By Philip Nweze

Whether it is sexual indiscretion, fraud, or physical abuse, Evangelist Ephraim Ononye is always at the centre of it all. In fact, it appears controversy never leaves his side. The man who left the Anglican church some years back in controversial circumstances to open his personal miracle centre is back in the spotlight, again for the wrong reasons.

By the feelers reaching us this time, then the self acclaimed Evangelist should not even be walking the street a free man. At the very least this man should have spent some time in a police lock-up facility. The fact that we still have people like Ephraim Ononye in the priestly frock is a slap on christian faith. The more I look at him, the more I'm convinced that judgement will start from the house of God.

I have always known the evangelist to be controversial but not even the knowledge prepared me for the side of the story I heard last week.

On Saturday 17th June, this month, a young lady from Okposi told a rather stunning story of how the evangelist almost deceived her into having intimate sexual affair, by tricking her into his hotel room after a crusade programme during which he made abortive attempts to rape her. She recounted how the prophet dipped his hands into her bra and grabbed her breasts.  She told me how she struggled, pleaded, and wept uncontrollably, until the prophet had no choice but to unseal the already locked door to avoid drawing attention to the room. After the ordeal, he offered her money to silence her which she vehemently rebuffed, and ran out still shocked to the bones.

The young lady said she later reported the attempted assault to her Pastor and church officials who confronted and cautioned Ononye seriously over the incident. I shudder to even contemplate what transpires behind closed doors during his numerous prayer sessions with different categories of ladies in his ministry.

Evangelist Ephraim Ononye, aka High Tension Corner and Gods Battle Axe gained popularity back in 2005 when he dared Ogwugwu Ndorohia, a deadly shrine in Uli, Ihiala LGA of Anambra state, and his unilateral adventure yielded positive result as priest of the deadly shrine surrendered to Christ, along with his instruments of devilish acts. The fame and popularity the daring act gave him has made him a big time entreprenuer in church business ever since. Many have claimed to be healed through handkerchiefs that has been prayed over by the man and given to those who are unable to physically attend his church in Abakaliki. Top contractors, businessmen, barren women, the sick and downtrodden troop to his church to seek one miracle or the other or some other forms of spiritual assistance. This has made him become too blotted with arrogance too.

His show of arrogance reached its peak when he dared the Bishop of Abakaliki Anglican Communion by rejecting his new posting by the church leadership.

His sojourn into full time church business however started when the the Anglican Communion of Abakaliki Diocese evicted him from the All Saints Anglican Cathedral in Abakaliki as a result of insurbodination and anti church activities. Thereafter he came up with Power House Interdenominational ministry. The evangelist who speaks with a tongue coated with honey wasted no time in filling up his church auditorium with miracle seeking worshippers.

These unsuspecting church folks who are gullible clones of his fraudulent ministry have gifted him into riches overnight. Today, his flourishing miracle centre has afforded him lavish fleet of flashy automobiles, in addition to various houses scattered across the state capital.

Typical of Ononye, he doesn't stay away from controversy for too long. Mr Ononye has continued to make headlines in different criminal cases, the very ones that he so fervently preached against with his fire and brimstone deliveries from his bully pulpit. He has been fingered in one dirty scandal after another which is capable of dragging the name and body of Christ in the mud.

As a priest, he has stripped himself of every modicum of dignity and caused monumental embarrassment to his kind. Around 2010, the Police in Anambra issued an arrest warrant on him following his suspected involvement in two kidnap cases. How he managed to hush the case and pacify the police, I have no idea.

The most damaging scandal to meet the fleeing kidnap suspect was the death of two members of his church later in 2016 during a healing session, after they drank a concoction he offered them. Expectedly, he produced an intense rebuttal to the murder incident that exonerated him.

I fear to say that the church of Christ is now littered with small men in cloth with huge egos. Hence, this article is borne out of the pathological need to resist wolves in sheeps clothing who spit on the word of God; pompous empty ineffectual vessels and end time prophets preoccupied with selfish motives.

Ononye was yet again at the centre of controversy last year when the entire body of Divine Mandate pastors in the 13 local government areas in Ebonyi state unanimously passed a vote of no confidence on him and inaugurated a new leadership in the state with Pastor Ifeanyi C Igwe as chairman and Ernest Anayo as secretary.

The reason for the change were on account of his general misconduct and unruly behaviour. They alleged that the man is arrogant, autocratic, hostile and worst is that he abuses pastors of Ebonyi state origin that they are hungry pastors.

They alleged that two chances given to them by the state govt for pilgrimage to Jerusalem last year was hijacked on the way by Evang Ononye. He gave one to his wife and gave one to one of his partners. He arrogantly told anyone who asked off.

This kind of attitude was responsible for his transfer from the All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Abakaliki to a rural area. Apparently dissatisfied by the churchs decision, Ononye established his worship centre located in Oroke Onuoha, Mile 50, Abakaliki. There he perfected his act of fraud. Ononye has become a guest of the Nigerian police several times.

Apart from his lies, the cleric is an inverterate wife beater. In fact he will be a perfect match for Muhamned Ali if he encountered him in the boxing ring. He was said to have battered his wife and turned her into punching bag more times than one, prompting her to run to the anglican Bishop repeatedly for refuge.

May I aptly clarify that his confessions of blatant lies against the state governor is not the reason for this article. It's not about name calling too. It's about unveiling the multiple faces of a dubious cleric. It is about the ease at which he fabricate lies and throw them to our faces without any form of guilt. The dirty pictures being painted by Evangelist Ononye against the state government are simply the rantings of a sinking man.

However, when one summons the moral courage to write an article of this nature in Nigeria, the most overwhelming response would be to judge him with Mathew 7:1. "Judge not that ye may not be judged." This is because it is a particularly exaseperating taboo in this part of the world to criticize a priest. But I pray many readers would understand the spirit of the piece, which is, quite simply, to expose evil in all its forms and appearances. There’s a hint of a positive redeeming value at the heart of it.

Its time for people to wake up and hold their pastors accountable to ethical and upright moral character not offer up excuses and defences on their behalf. It's time to break this tradition of silence. Evangelist Ononye's overt desire and covert antics to outsmart the government and people of Ebonyi state would surely be vehemently resisted.

I smell a rat, pulling down spirit in action,,,, be careful!!! don't say I didn't warn you

goziedave:
pls do well to pass these message to the writer mr poster. I didn't read the artilcle because as a resident in Abakaliki the state capital of ebonyi I knoe to the best of my knowledge evangelist Ononye have been in good standing relationship with gov. umahi and he was the leader of divine mandate team of ministers of GOD which prayed for umahi's victory at the polls in 2015. now because of small issues with the governor, the gov. and his media aides have been trying to tarnish the mans image, and even closed down his ministry, stripped him of all his govt posts. the trend in Ebonyi now is if you go against the governor he will send youths loyal to him after, so tell mr Philip Nweze to stop tarnishing the image of Onoye.

You forgot to mention something. Are you a member of his church? Everyone here knows how sheeples think - place the blame on someone else and continuously defend their 'Father in the Lord'.

I know that these men called pastors are evil but this news coming from Philip Nweze maybe cooked up just to tarnish the image of the man because of the issues he has with Dave Umahi. Philip Nweze is Dave umahi's asss licker, he is paid for these posts he makes, so nairalanders never take that moafucker serious.





This doesn't change the fact that I hate pastors and anything religion.

Ok.... Though I do not absolve the evangelist of your accusation, but I feel your narrative speak more of hatred and acrimony. .. I think we should banish that from Christiandom... The evangelist is human, bound to make mistakes.. If a brother falls.. (thats assuming this your allegation holds water), the mature thing for a matured believer to do is to show love and pray for his rest or a tion and not to broadcast it with hate undertones like u ve done. Let him that have no sin always throw the first stone... God help us

Here to read comments.

sunnysunny69:
Unbelievable

Abeg konji no care weda u b pastor.

Don't be a devil instrument to destroy GOD Ministry, trusted into a hand of dedicated man of GOD. Let God alone judge his men

what a waawu!!

Pastor and puna tins
Nawa abeg pastor no finish the vegetables for lalal

Konji na bastard

You don't need fasting and night vigils for God of justice to hear you if indeed jesus Christ knows you and lives in.you it's just like you suffering to use your phone and that's the power we have brought back to the world and those who.claimants know jesus Christ refuse to teat the power even as they have read overtime read in their Bible which says test every spirit and they refuse to test.this one and rather prefer to suffer and smile while professing Christianity?how long will humans accept truth and do the truth that is so glaring? Oh what a world full of human chameleons,Behold again, even as they have read in Bible # test every Spirit yet non wants to rest this one which we have authorized the whole world to test and see and if it's lies discredit it by all means possible . Mathew 13,13 -14

9jakohai:
Someone who makes Christ his Example.

Faulkin(Yeshua) did similar things with Rhoda, Maria and the other women of his time. The pastor is actually following the footstep of Yeshua.

Doctufos: Batimeus 10:6-8



DOCTUFOS: batimeus 10:6-8

6. Now many of the homofal(ladies) began to visit Yeshu, even when everyone was away to speak about him. And only I, being at the gate, saw how the homofal come in to him and go out. 7. Now when three homofal(ladies) went in with Yeshu and did not come out for many hours. I went in to spy at them. And I saw that which made my eyes heavy. 8. And I said, truly rhoda has not been wrong. And I went the opposite way, into the room where Yeshu did keep all his things.


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burkingx:

Prophets&pastors have come to realize the fact that Bornagains love lies&false Prophesies&because Prophets&pastors are embodiment of falsehood from head to toe& after Prophesies&falling people down in churches in their fine cloths, yet no peace&empowerment as Jesus Christ promised&gives&no matter how smart a Born Again may claim to be,it is embedded in the genome of born again Christians to love lies because they prefer to hear what they want to hear even if it is an obvious lie.Simply put...JUST TELL A BORN AGAIN WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR& YOU ARE ALMOST CERTAIN TO HAVE THEM CONVINCED WHERE& HOW YOU WANT THEM REMOTELY CONTROLLED&THATS WHY YOU SEE PROPHESIES AT A TIME LIKE THIS FROM PROPHETS&PASTORS saying different Prophesies&WITHOUT SOLUTIONS WHERE AS THE TRUE PROPHESIES OF GOD HAS SOLUTIONS WHEREBY JESUS CHRIST SAID WHAT EVER THE LIGHT HAS REVEALED HAS BEEN CONQUERED BY LIGHT AS JESUS CHRIST CONFIRMED &you now ask does the prophets &pastors have the LIGHT of JESUS CHRIST ?even as we have declared to the world that Kingdom of Jesus Christ has come back to revenge&judge human beings&no prophet or pastor can discredit this Heavenly unbelievable truth&revelation we add&say you don't need fasting& night vigils for us to take you to real Jesus Christ&who on earth can challenge this authority spiritually?&dont forget in the realm of spirit there is no distance so those who have eyes read me&knoe who is talking powerfully#Human beings must be told the truth& as we say always this is accept or perish&power talks& not empty critics Mathew 13.13-14 & don't forget the consequences of vain challenge& the wisdom of the wise is look before you leap&freely send this truth to all Prophet& pastors&seers&whoever ever feel threatened know where to confront me&yes if they don't know,It's where the battles of life are fought won or lost.watchout only time will tell who is who, evil or good&that time is already here. Test & see

Until Nigerians resolve to stop being gullible, such news will continue to be other of the day... Lay mat beside your bed, pray to God in the midnight and remain faithful... Let stop being taken for a ride by few individual using God name to mislead innocence souls

Firstly am not a politician,secondly nweze is the mouthpiece of umahi,the said man of God whose image is being tarnished us because he said umahi would nt win second term of which the governor fabricated stories and locked up his church and is also after his life,i dnt know the said man of God, bt sincerely u need to recide in ebonyi to knw thst umahi is just beautifying and nt tackling the main issues which is hunger. for instance a graduate teacher in ebonyi earns 23k as start up salary please just imagine,snd umahi has been in power for almost 12years nw.......umahi is jyst a totalitarian!!

In Nigeria, christianity has been made a mess of by every dick and Harry who claims to be pastors, gathers congregation under the guise of being men of God, all for the purpose of extorting them In cash and kind. ‎

Today socalled pastors bastardizes christendom by committing sexual offences, rituaism, ‎extortion and all manners of criminality. 

No thanks to the poor economy and poverty which has brainwashed the masses, majorly local women into believing that the only solutions ‎to the myriads of problem in their lives is by seeking churches, spiritual houses and pastors.

divicode:
ffllatiess, bad news always coming from them

Everything about them is fake: fake medicines, fake spare parts and fake pastors - lying, cheating and crime comes so natural to them.

colossus91:
Firstly am not a politician,secondly nweze is the mouthpiece of umahi,the said man of God whose image is being tarnished us because he said umahi would nt win second term of which the governor fabricated stories and locked up his church and is also after his life,i dnt know the said man of God, bt sincerely u need to recide in ebonyi to knw thst umahi is just beautifying and nt tackling the main issues which is hunger. for instance a graduate teacher in ebonyi earns 23k as start up salary please just imagine,snd umahi has been in power for almost 12years nw.......umahi is jyst a totalitarian!!

React to the issue on ground and stop showing us your hatred for Umahi led administration.

Too bad for somebody who call himself a man of Gof

may God show mercy and restore him
pray for him and don't castigate him

[color=#000000][/color]abeg dick no go school

Nweze1986:
EVANGELIST EPHRAIM ONONYE: A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING


By Philip Nweze

Whether it is sexual indiscretion, fraud, or physical abuse, Evangelist Ephraim Ononye is always at the centre of it all. In fact, it appears controversy never leaves his side. The man who left the Anglican church some years back in controversial circumstances to open his personal miracle centre is back in the spotlight, again for the wrong reasons.

By the feelers reaching us this time, then the self acclaimed Evangelist should not even be walking the street a free man. At the very least this man should have spent some time in a police lock-up facility. The fact that we still have people like Ephraim Ononye in the priestly frock is a slap on christian faith. The more I look at him, the more I'm convinced that judgement will start from the house of God.

I have always known the evangelist to be controversial but not even the knowledge prepared me for the side of the story I heard last week.

On Saturday 17th June, this month, a young lady from Okposi told a rather stunning story of how the evangelist almost deceived her into having intimate sexual affair, by tricking her into his hotel room after a crusade programme during which he made abortive attempts to rape her. She recounted how the prophet dipped his hands into her bra and grabbed her breasts.  She told me how she struggled, pleaded, and wept uncontrollably, until the prophet had no choice but to unseal the already locked door to avoid drawing attention to the room. After the ordeal, he offered her money to silence her which she vehemently rebuffed, and ran out still shocked to the bones.

The young lady said she later reported the attempted assault to her Pastor and church officials who confronted and cautioned Ononye seriously over the incident. I shudder to even contemplate what transpires behind closed doors during his numerous prayer sessions with different categories of ladies in his ministry.

Evangelist Ephraim Ononye, aka High Tension Corner and Gods Battle Axe gained popularity back in 2005 when he dared Ogwugwu Ndorohia, a deadly shrine in Uli, Ihiala LGA of Anambra state, and his unilateral adventure yielded positive result as priest of the deadly shrine surrendered to Christ, along with his instruments of devilish acts. The fame and popularity the daring act gave him has made him a big time entreprenuer in church business ever since. Many have claimed to be healed through handkerchiefs that has been prayed over by the man and given to those who are unable to physically attend his church in Abakaliki. Top contractors, businessmen, barren women, the sick and downtrodden troop to his church to seek one miracle or the other or some other forms of spiritual assistance. This has made him become too blotted with arrogance too.

His show of arrogance reached its peak when he dared the Bishop of Abakaliki Anglican Communion by rejecting his new posting by the church leadership.

His sojourn into full time church business however started when the the Anglican Communion of Abakaliki Diocese evicted him from the All Saints Anglican Cathedral in Abakaliki as a result of insurbodination and anti church activities. Thereafter he came up with Power House Interdenominational ministry. The evangelist who speaks with a tongue coated with honey wasted no time in filling up his church auditorium with miracle seeking worshippers.

These unsuspecting church folks who are gullible clones of his fraudulent ministry have gifted him into riches overnight. Today, his flourishing miracle centre has afforded him lavish fleet of flashy automobiles, in addition to various houses scattered across the state capital.

Typical of Ononye, he doesn't stay away from controversy for too long. Mr Ononye has continued to make headlines in different criminal cases, the very ones that he so fervently preached against with his fire and brimstone deliveries from his bully pulpit. He has been fingered in one dirty scandal after another which is capable of dragging the name and body of Christ in the mud.

As a priest, he has stripped himself of every modicum of dignity and caused monumental embarrassment to his kind. Around 2010, the Police in Anambra issued an arrest warrant on him following his suspected involvement in two kidnap cases. How he managed to hush the case and pacify the police, I have no idea.

The most damaging scandal to meet the fleeing kidnap suspect was the death of two members of his church later in 2016 during a healing session, after they drank a concoction he offered them. Expectedly, he produced an intense rebuttal to the murder incident that exonerated him.

I fear to say that the church of Christ is now littered with small men in cloth with huge egos. Hence, this article is borne out of the pathological need to resist wolves in sheeps clothing who spit on the word of God; pompous empty ineffectual vessels and end time prophets preoccupied with selfish motives.

Ononye was yet again at the centre of controversy last year when the entire body of Divine Mandate pastors in the 13 local government areas in Ebonyi state unanimously passed a vote of no confidence on him and inaugurated a new leadership in the state with Pastor Ifeanyi C Igwe as chairman and Ernest Anayo as secretary.

The reason for the change were on account of his general misconduct and unruly behaviour. They alleged that the man is arrogant, autocratic, hostile and worst is that he abuses pastors of Ebonyi state origin that they are hungry pastors.

They alleged that two chances given to them by the state govt for pilgrimage to Jerusalem last year was hijacked on the way by Evang Ononye. He gave one to his wife and gave one to one of his partners. He arrogantly told anyone who asked off.

This kind of attitude was responsible for his transfer from the All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Abakaliki to a rural area. Apparently dissatisfied by the churchs decision, Ononye established his worship centre located in Oroke Onuoha, Mile 50, Abakaliki. There he perfected his act of fraud. Ononye has become a guest of the Nigerian police several times.

Apart from his lies, the cleric is an inverterate wife beater. In fact he will be a perfect match for Muhamned Ali if he encountered him in the boxing ring. He was said to have battered his wife and turned her into punching bag more times than one, prompting her to run to the anglican Bishop repeatedly for refuge.

May I aptly clarify that his confessions of blatant lies against the state governor is not the reason for this article. It's not about name calling too. It's about unveiling the multiple faces of a dubious cleric. It is about the ease at which he fabricate lies and throw them to our faces without any form of guilt. The dirty pictures being painted by Evangelist Ononye against the state government are simply the rantings of a sinking man.

However, when one summons the moral courage to write an article of this nature in Nigeria, the most overwhelming response would be to judge him with Mathew 7:1. "Judge not that ye may not be judged." This is because it is a particularly exaseperating taboo in this part of the world to criticize a priest. But I pray many readers would understand the spirit of the piece, which is, quite simply, to expose evil in all its forms and appearances. There’s a hint of a positive redeeming value at the heart of it.

Its time for people to wake up and hold their pastors accountable to ethical and upright moral character not offer up excuses and defences on their behalf. It's time to break this tradition of silence. Evangelist Ononye's overt desire and covert antics to outsmart the government and people of Ebonyi state would surely be vehemently resisted.

I learnt he gave a prophecy against your pay master, Dave umahi. Is this why you wrote this? You should have first told us about that prophecy the man released against his (dave umahi) 2019 ambition that gave hope to the masses of ebonyi people that were (are being) impoverished by your master. Dave umahi represents Napoleon in animal farm and God will surely save us from his fierce and wicked grips come 2019. Amen

LIES! LIES! LIES! THIS SAME MAN WAS THE SPIRITUAL FATHER TO GOVERNOR UMAHI UNTIL THEY FELL OUT RECENTLY AND SOME OF THESE TALES BY MOONLIGHT STARTED SURFACING. THERE WERE TALES OF GOVERNOR SLAPPING ONONYE AND THE PASTOR DECIDING NOT TO TAKE UP HIS NEW APPOINTMENT AND SO MANY OTHERS. ANYWAY, A PASTOR WHO CHOOSE TO BE FRIENDS WITH A RITUALIST AND MURDERER/THIEF THAT ONE IS LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.

@OP when he prophesied about Dave being the governor. He was a saint, now he is prophesieing a change in d government house, he's a criminal. Let's watch and see how this goes.

@OP stop these useless posts. this is a faceless forum and we can afford to speak our minds here without ending up dead. this whole story is nonsense and you know it. just tell your master that this is not ebbc or ebonyi patriot. put all your fake stories there not here. now have you people been able to get any self-respecting Lagos-based journalist to take over from poor emma anya as chief press secretary after months of searching?

Nweze1986:
React to the issue on ground and stop showing us your hatred for Umahi led administration.

funny enough i dont hate umahi sir, he has given alot of my uncles job so calmdown am just telling u the truth mr mouthpiece!!

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I can't even say anything about this, cos I don't know the truth here.
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