A
17-year old girl (names withheld) has narrated how the resident Pastor of the
Amagba branch of the Living Faith Church a.k.a Winners Chapel, Pastor Kingsley
Emeka Mokwunye, introduced her to alcohol and has sex with her severally.
The teenager who spoke to reporters in Bénin City said
Pastor Kingsley also slept with her in her father’s house.
She was in tears as she narrated how the affair began
in September last year shortly after she finished her secondary education.
Stating the reasons for opening up on the love affair,
she said she wants to leave the state for lack of concentration and that she
wants Pastor Kingsley to be jailed.
According to her, “He used to call me to advise me to
stay away from boys, to live a good life and always respect my parents. I took
it like he was my own father that I could trust and tell him anything I want to
say.
“That was how he started calling me,
talking to me till it gets to a time he told me that he likes me. I took it as
a normal thing. He started taking advantage of me. He tells me I do not know
what he is doing for me. He started showing me things I have not seen before
and took me to places I have never been to. That was how it started. He was the
first person to show me how condom looked like. He taught me how to take
alcohol.
“He told me not to tell my parents. He said they will
understand what he is doing. He slept with me many times including our house
when my parents are not at home.
“Thinking about the thing has affected me
educationally. I could not read. The whole thing was disturbing me. When I told
his wife, she said I was lying and told me to come to their house and repeat it
before her husband.
“I want Pastor Kingsley to go to jail. I was always
shocked anytime I am in church and see him preaching. I was afraid of telling
my mother what was happening”.
Her father who is also the Board Chairman of the
church branch, Mr, Paul Obidah, said he was shocked that a Pastor he trusted so
much could destroy his only daughter.
Paul said what pained him was that Pastor Kingsley had
sex with his daughter in his house and even when his daughter was having her
monthly flow.
He said he want justice in the case and not swept
under the carpet.
His words, “I have been in the church for the past 27
years. I started the church in Kaduna State. Abioye led me to Christ. I have
been in Kaduna all these years. It got to a time. I decided to relocate home.
“We have been in Bénin serving God with our heart.
Many pastors have come to the branch and go. I see the pastors as Oyedepo, the
founder of Living Faith. There was a day Pastor Kingsley came to my house, I
could smell alcohol from his breath.
“One day, his wife came and said she wants to see our
daughter. I left her to discuss. I heard my daughter telling her she has
something to tell her. The next day, the woman came and told me she has seized
her husband’s phone because of the calls her husband was making to my daughter.
I just said maybe it was a family friend matter.
She said he went to pick my daughter at school, I said
maybe he bought her ice cream.
“I was sleeping when something struck me to ask my
daughter what is happening. I called and asked her to open up to me. She began
telling me how the Pastor used to make love to her in my own house. The
different hotels he took her to. She said it was a burden to her. She said she
does not know what the pastor gave to her.
“This is a Pastor we trusted. We talked and do
everything as a family. I didn’t know he has been doing this nonsense in my
house. This is a girl that does not go out. She has been in boarding house. We
don’t send her to the market. He slept with her even when she was having her
menstrual flow.
“What I want my daughter to be, this man has destroyed
her. He has brought shame to our house. That was why I cried out. He does not
have children. Pastors Kingsley took detectives to all the hotels he has been
taking my daughter to. I want justice to be done. I took him as my spiritual
father. My family love God but I want justice. My daughter has lost
concentration. This has been a burden to her. I want the authorities to
prosecute Pastor Kingsley. I have reported to head Pastor in Edo State and he
said he was not in support of Pastor Kingsley.”
Mother of the teenager, Glory, said it was a sad and
unacceptable evil.
“It was my daughter who called his wife to say she has
something to tell her. She has been afraid mostly seeing the man in the alter
preaching that nobody can dare him. Anybody that dares him will die. My
daughter was in shock. The first thing that crossed my mind was the shame in
the community. How will the church take it?
“There was a time a girl in the church cried out about
the Pastor. They told her not to say such things about the Pastor. I was saying
Pastor cannot do that but it now came to my door step. They are all covering up
things.”
It was learnt that Pastor Kingsley has been arrested
and detained by men of the Department of State Security.
Sources said wife of the pastor has also been arrested
as accomplice.
A senior pastor of the Winners Chapel who pleaded
anonymity said the church was still investigating the matter
