pentecostal church in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, the pastor,
Bishop David Amoussou, who was singled out as the
mastermind of the arranged instant healing scam has again
been embroiled in a very messy wife snatching tango.
The City of Truth Chapel International, aka, Holy Ghost
Embassy, under the leadership of Bishop Israel Usoro ran into
trouble when some pastors of the church resigned and opted to
blow the lid off the wind of instant miracles blowing in each
of the church service, which they described as fake as
beneficiaries of such miracles were hired and paid. They had
claimed that the "new form of evangelism" was introduced to
the church by Bishop Amoussou when he came as a guest
minister early in the year.
While the controversy surrounding the scandal is yet to abate,
a man who claimed that Bishop Usoro's spiritual partner, that
is Bishop Davis Amoussou, has destroyed his family, stormed
The Sun Newspaper's office and in tears narrated how the
controversial Bishop snatched his beautiful wife...
His words: "My name is Ndifreke Benson, I am reacting to
your story in Saturday Sun. When I read through the story, it
was talking about a certain prophet, a certain Bishop. I can
remember it was this same so called man of God that came
with one man that comes from Ghana, called Bishop David
Amoussou. Bishop David Amoossou has already taken my
wife.
"He called me in May and said when he comes back in
September, he would take my wife and I would do nothing.
And in September when he came, I got a call from the police.
In fact, for the three days that he was in Uyo, my wife never
slept at home. I only met my wife in the police station, Ikot
Akpan Abia, where she sat down with David Amoussou and
the other Pastor of Paul Bassey Street, Israel Usoro . They
accused me of coming to the hotel where they lodged with my
wife to kidnap them.
"Even the O.C state anti-kidnapping who knows me very well
was shocked over such accusation. It was the elder brother of
my wife that came to dismiss the case. He was even telling
the police what David Amoussou has done to his sister. My
wife has three children.
"I brought her up 16 years ago before she got the job at
NEPA. And just because they have paid her severance
allowance, David Amoussou, got the information through the
other Bishop, who brought David Amoussou to come and cast
a spell on my wife and took my wife.
"Right now, my wife is half mad. She does not even know the
brother or the sister or listen to anybody or want to see me
right now. My wife has gone and they have rented a house
somewhere and she is living with David Amoussou. She is
even planning to marry him. She had called my friend to tell
him that she would be sending a wedding card to him. So, this
is what these people are doing in Uyo. I am a victim and the
story has to be investigated properly."
Asked whether he had ever made attempt to harass Amoussou
over his alleged relationship with his wife, the distraught
Benson said "I never knew him at all. All I knew was that my
wife did not sleep at home for three nights. And the day my
wife was at the police, I was in a business centre typing a
document, and they claimed it was at that time that I went to
the hotel to kidnap them. I was shocked. That is to show you
that David Amoussou wants to kill me in order to take my
wife."
He said the police had to quickly dismiss the kidnap case
because Amoussou himself said that somebody told him that
he (Benson) is a very dangerous person that was why he went
to the police.
"My wife is under his custody. For over two months now, I
have not set my eyes on my wife. I have made all efforts to
trace where she is but she does not want to see anyone that
knows her. The only call I got was that of my friend who told
me she was ready to print a wedding card with David
Amoussou. Some other people are even telling me now that
she has changed her name from Esther Ndifreke Benson to
Esther David Amoussou", Benson lamented.
He said he had approached the Christian association of
Nigeria, CAN, and other notable Christian leaders like
popular Rev Uma Ukpai to help him retrieve his wife from the
stronghold of Bishop Amoussou.
"I am handing everything to God. I have already discussed
with CAN to try and plead with David Amoussou to remove
the spell he has cast on my wife so that my wife can return
home to take care of the three children. I have talked to many
high Bishops. I have talked to Uma Ukpai as well as many
others to help me talk to David Amoussou to leave my wife
alone." Benson also said he was considering taking a legal
action if all other methods fail.
But reacting to the allegation:
The woman at the centre of the storm, Mrs Esther Ndifreke
Benson, said she is no longer married to Benson because he
has been accusing her of infidelity even when he does not
have money to take care of the family as a man. She vowed to
go ahead and marry Bishop Amoussou if Benson does not
stop looking for her.
According to her: "The man, Ndifreke Benson, who came to
you was my husband, he is no more my husband. What really
happened is that, we got married in the year 2000; everything
was going well and before he met me, I am a Christian. We
went to church together; I embraced him because we were
from the same place. But it is not everything, because the
Bible says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but
against principalities and powers, against spiritual wickedness
in high places. It is not everything that I saw through my
marital life that I complained to anybody because it is for
better, for worse.
"I have passed through all kinds of things which I cannot just
start saying now but the one that pained me most was on the
7th of October this year. He doesn't go to church. He has
been accusing me of being impregnated by one pastor Enono
of Life Builders Assembly, Uyo.
"I don't really know what happened because I was a nursing
mother then. They went to the police station then and I was
called to testify. You understand what I am trying to say. Is it
a crime for me to worship God? Is it a crime for me to go
close to men of God? Or is it a crime to worship God. I
thought that he should be happy that I am worshipping God.
But at the end, what he will say is that I am sleeping with
these men of God.
"I endured it and never told my people what I was passing
through. The only person who knew what happened was my
younger sister. It is not just something that you will start
telling people; that you are being accused of adultery. I kept
quiet. My mother was married till death did them part and I
had to stay in my marital home, which I did. A lot of things
happened, but I endured."
She said it is the threat to her life that made her abandon the
marriage. "The only one that pained me most was on October
7, he started beating me. If not by God's grace, I would have
been a dead person by now. He started beating me that I was
going out with one Amoussou. That in fact, the man charmed
me, that the man has been using magical oil.
"Okay, I am going out with this man of God as you said, why
not release me to go, but you just wanted to kill me. He
strangled me and would have killed me if not for the knock on
the door by my neighbour? My neighbour knocked and he
thought that it was the landlord, he left me. At this stage, this
is no more spiritual, I am above it because I know that he that
is in me is greater than he that is in the world. But by
strangling me, I was afraid.
"So what happened was that I used wisdom; I did as if I had
settled with him. He took me to work, I left. I had to run for
my dear life. I went to the office and took permission to go on
leave, because I have seen as they say death is not far.
So I decided to leave, I left everything I had toiled and
labored for. What he is thinking that is maybe I am going out
with the pastor, but if he should tempt me, even though I
don't want to marry again, if he tempts me, I will go on and
marry that man and he can't do anything."
When contacted on all his three GSM lines, the man at the
centre of the storm, Bishop Amousou refused to pick his calls.
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