A 53-year-old
pastor from Nigeria who impregnated more than 20 members of his congregation,
including several married women and young girls, claiming that the Holy Spirit
told him to have sex with them has been arrested for sexual abuse.
Ebere Amaraizu, DSP, a
spokesman for the Enugu State Police Command told NaiJ that general overseer of
Vineyard Ministry of the Holy Trinity, Pastor Timothy Ngwu, was arrested for
abusing his female members.
“The pastor claims to
be obeying prophetic/spiritual injunction to do the will of God, which is to
impregnate any one chosen and revealed by the Holy Spirit, irrespective of
whether the woman is married or not,” said Amaraizu. “When the woman is
delivered of the baby, the child remains in the ministry with the mother for
life,” he added. According to a Vanguard report, Ngwu was reported to the
police by his estranged wife,
Veronica Ngwu, who got
tired of his lascivious behavior after he impregnated her young niece. A
brother of the pastor, who did not want to be identified, told Vanguard that he
had been warning Ngwu and his family about his behavior for a long time but he
refused to listen.
The arrest,
he said, was God’s wrath falling on his brother. “Let me tell you, God’s anger
has befallen my brother, we have severally appealed to him to stop what he was
doing but he refused. He has colonized our compound, bearing children with
recklessness. He accused us of being jealous of him because he is doing the
will of God,” the brother told Vanguard.
“Look at these buildings here,” he said
pointing to the church compound. “He (pastor) has converted all of them to
himself in the name of vineyard. I can’t say exactly what informed his spirit
to the devilish act in the name of God.
He sacked his betrothed wife who has
three children for him and embarked on impregnating married women and young
girls. Look at the whole compound littered with children of different sex and
age,” he lamented. “How can an educated man of his status reason like an
unrefined man?
All members of the vineyard are fools,
how can a woman abandon her husband for another man in the name of worshiping
God and practice adultery? I cannot get myself involved in this matter; Vero
has opened the vessel of worms in the vineyard. Let them sort themselves out
with the police but I want the ministry to be shut down completely,” he added.
“How can an educated man of his status
reason like an unrefined man? All members of the vineyard are fools, how can a
woman abandon her husband for another man in the name of worshiping God and
practice adultery?
I cannot get myself involved in this
matter; Vero has opened the vessel of worms in the vineyard.
Let them sort themselves out with the
police but I want the ministry to be shut down completely,” he added. Ngwu told
NaiJ that he has approximately five wives with 13 children along with
concubines he acquired by the prophetic will of God.
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