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.
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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