Hmmm...........The
Pastor in charge of Daily Manna/Manna Prayer Mountain Ministry, Bishop
Chris Kwakpovwe has allegedly been caught on tape planning on how he
will make love to a congregation member.
Rita Ibeni accused Pastor Chris Kwakpovwe of making sexual advances at her
A phone conversation between Rita Ibeni, a church member and Bishop
Chris Kwakpovwe of Manna Prayer Mountain Ministry has been made public
after he denied making sexual advances at her.
According to TheCable,
a male voice alleged to be that of Kwakpovwe could be heard telling
Rita how he would make love to her and she will forget her name.
In the telephone conversation, the man could be heard saying: “I’m
crazy about you but you are not so I decided to take my eyes off you.
I’m just looking for someone to take out, yesterday I took somebody out
yesterday and I want to take you out today but you are running from me,
you would have enjoyed the two days now. Even Mummy respects you,”
The male voice further assured Ibeni that he would give her the best s*x of her life “Don’t
worry before I do it, I’ll tell you. Don’t you know I can do it, I will
do it and you will enjoy it, you will forget your name. You will be
calling my name Chris, Chris. I can’t wait to have you.
“I’m missing you crazy please plan for us to see. If you want
us to marry, we will have to plan it. I can never have more than two, I
can not cope with anyone other than Mummy and you. You don’t call or
text. I’m in Lekki, working alone and I want to hear from you, I prefer
Whatsapp messages.”
Although the church has denied the audio recording, Rita has insisted that the phone conversation took place.
Rita has taken to social media to maintain her stand. She wrote: "I
feel the time has come for me to speak out in the light of the media
warfare and deliberate falsehood being dished from the pulpit against me
by Bishop Chris Kwapovwe of our Daily Manna (ODM). My person and
character has been consistently maligned by a man I once called Daddy, a
man I once looked up to for inspiration and guidance, a man whose
charisma stir up my faith to believe the impossible.
At the beginning of this nightmare, my faith and Christian
upbringing restrained me from speaking out, for fear of being accused of
attacking a “man of God” but as the saying goes silent means consent.
To many my continuous silence in the face of being used as sermon topic
week in week out is a confirmation of my assumed guilt.
I want to start from the very beginning to tell my side of this
unfortunate story. My first contact with ODM was when I was invited to
the month anointing service by a catholic family in 2010. After my first
visit I started attending Sunday services and from there I became a
member of the church, and subsequently joined the technical dept due to
my previous experience as a volunteer. In September 2012 there was a
vacancy for full time employment which I applied for and was employed.
Upon my employment, I continued to work as a camera man in the
department until 2015 when the unit head Mr. Adewumi Aderemi was sacked,
due to issues surrounding missing equipment. Upon his sack I was asked
by Bishop Chris to take over from him. This elevation was the beginning
of my nightmare. On assuming the position of unit head, I quickly took
inventory with the HOD of the technical department Deacon Patrick
Uchendu. After the inventory we found out that mixer, transmitter, video
camera, Photo camera and photo album were missing. Together with Deacon
Uchendu we went to see the AGO to report the matter. We eventually took
the matter to Bishop Chris, who invited Inspector Clarus Atabor the
Mobile police chief security officer to go and arrest Mr Adewumi. But
that was the last I heard of the matter.
On February 14 this year Bishop Chris suddenly recalled Mr
Adewumi and stated at the staff meeting that he heard that Mr Adewumi
stole some equipment. But as a father he is willing to forgive him. He
then asked Mr Adewumi to go to the Alter in the main auditorium to ask
God for forgiveness from “his three friends”. All of a sudden the Bishop
ordered me and Mr Adewunmi to take a fresh inventory. The second
inventory confirmed the same items we found missing on Mr Adewumis
departure in 2015. Meanwhile, the telephone sexual harassment continued,
in spite of this official attitude.
I must confess that at first I was shocked, scared, and
confused at the same time. I was in a dilemma as of what is the right
way to handle such an abnormal situation, knowing that even my close
acquaintances will struggle to believe me. So the double dealing
continued, the Bishop will talk tough publicly and declare his love for
me in private. It was indeed a nightmarish situation. I was between the
devil and the deep blue sea, if I speak out I will be accused of trying
to bring down a man of God and if I keep quit as I did the torment
continues.
Faced with the challenge of who to turn to within my immediate
environment without complicating the situation, I decided to stay away
from work and stopped picking up the Bishop’s calls.
In all sincerity, I was hoping that the church intervenes by
sending people to find out what actually happened and to resolve the
matter in a Christian way. Rather what I got was a police raid from
Ogudu Polices station on the 27th of march2017. I was arrested with the
accusation that I stole the missing equipment; the case was reported by
Pastor Ime Eno under the instructions of the bishop without reference to
the church administrative and disciplinary organs. I protested that I
was in poor health, as well as observing my menstrual circle. I was
assured that I was only going to make a statement and return home. On
arrival at the station, I discovered that I was the only one arrested
and accused directly of stealing the missing items. Every effort to
secure my bail by and lawyer was abortive as the police appear to be
under instruction to keep me locked up. On the second day, to my utmost
surprise Bishop Chris came with all members of our unit, including Mr
Adewumi as witnesses against me, I expected that if something is missing
the police would have conducted general investigation, why was I
singled out? But to the glory of God none of them claimed to have seen
me with any of the missing equipment despite being obviously coached on
what to say. Same day in the DPOs office Bishop Chris was blowing hot
and cold, he asked the DPO to appeal to me to return to work, with a
promise to write-off the cost of the equipment after consulting with his
“Three friends”. Due to the conflicting actions and utterances of the
Bishop the IPO asked me to tell her what is going on between me and the
Bishop. When it became clear that Bishop Chris was out to punish me, I
had no option than to open up to explain why I stopped picking his calls
and stayed away from work. When I said that, the police asked if I had
any proof of sexual harassment and I requested for my phone and played a
few recordings to them. On hearing the tape recordings the police
quickly granted me bail and informed the Bishop of the development.
On learning of the tape recording Bishops Chris quickly told
the police he was no longer interested in prosecuting the case but wants
to settle the matter amicable. The next day he set up a meeting with my
lawyer, his lawyer, publicist, me and his wife Rev Dr Flora Ejiro
Kwakpovwe at Dominion Pizza at Ogudu. Bishop’s wife, who is the
Assistant general Overseer of the Church, bought pizza for everybody.
She requested to hear the tape and after listening briefly appealed for
settlement, referring to the matter as a family matter. So the meeting
ended on a very conciliatory note. Or so we thought.
Two days later my lawyer called me to say the Bishop requested
for another meeting, insisting that he wants to see me to personally
apologize to me. I declined to attend as I still wasn’t feeling well. I
expected my lawyer to call to brief me on the meeting but didn’t hear
from him, I called his phone but it was switched off. Late afternoon of
the next day, my lawyer called me to inform me that Bishop Chris stormed
the venue of the meeting at the same Dominion Pizza Ogudu with three
truck load of men of Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad (FSARS) to
arrest them. They were detained at SARS office at Ikeja and hurriedly
charged to court the next day. As God will have it they were granted
bail and released the same day. After narrating this sudden twist in the
case it became clear why the Bishop was insisting he wants me to be in
the meeting. As the smart person he prides himself to be, he was hoping
to seize the recording from me through his SARS operatives. Why SARS? I
asked, he explained that the Bishop alleged that they were trying to
blackmail and extort money from him.
While this was going on, Bishop Chris continued to attack me
from his pulpit, calling me unprintable names, claiming that I tried to
seduce him, after stealing equipments worth 13million naira later said
7.5milloin and later told the police 5.6million naira. After his friends
in high places gave him SARS operatives in a matter of missing office
equipment to torment me and those who came to deliver me from his mighty
hand. He changed the story that I was an agent of a blackmailing gang
who wants to extort his “hard earned money”. Sadly his church members
who are victims of his deceitful life style, lies and manipulations
never stop to question the reason a whole Bishop went to a police
station to lie and lock up a church member without subjecting the case
first to the church disciplinary and internal crisis management process?
Why is the man that preaches to others to be the first to
forgive, be the first to run to the police just to intimidate me to give
in to his ungodly demand?
After the harrowing experience my lawyer petitioned the Lagos
state commissioner of police against SARS actions and continuous
intimidation. The commissioner ordered SARS to transfer the case file to
his office and summoned all parties to his office. Present at the
meeting that took place in the conference room of the Lagos state
Commissioner of police are Bishop Chris, his wife, lawyers, Pastor Ime
Eno, me and my lawyer. At the Meeting of Wenesday 26th April,
superintended by the Lagos state deputy commissioner of Police, Alh
Dasuki Galadanchy, Head of the Legal department CSP Yetunde Cardozo,
after listening to the tape recording told him that he really harassed
me. At that meeting even the SARS people who have been acting like an
arm of ODM security became sober after hearing the tape recording and
oral evidence. However, the Bishops comic side reared its head to the
amazement of every one when he demanded from the police to ask me to
apologize to him for recording his voice, after initially denying that
the voice was his. At that point we were asked to go and settle the
matter and report back to the police.
Rather than adhere to this instruction, the Bishop and his
loyal servants and publicist has continued to sponsor evil reports
against me. Linking me to everything missing in ODM since inception just
to tarnish my image and maintain his false image before his church
members.
WHY I RECORDED BISHOP CHRIS CALLS: Many members and supporters
of Bishop Chris have understandably raised this point. And I think it’s
fair to address it.
I want to reiterate the fact that what happened to me was
shocking and confusing. Here is a man I called Daddy, a man I regarded
as a mentor and spiritual guide. But it did something to me. It removed
the scale from my eyes and I started paying attention to some of the
stories circulating in the church and started questioning some practices
and actions. Below are some cases that proved to me that Bishop Chris
has no value for relationships and considers everyone around him as
disposable material.
DEACON EMMA OKOKORO’S CASE: Dcn Emma was Bishop Chris loyal PA
for 22years. He was fondly called Junior Bishop due to his dedication
and commitment. Early last year, Dcn Emma suddenly disappeared from the
church. After a few weeks of stories making the rounds that he left
after the Bishop said to one Rasta man, his technician that Dcn Emma
does not exist in his presence. To which the Deacon responded that he
exist in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Emma was quoted to have
said, that once the Bishop makes such utterance in anger something evil
will happen to a person.
Rather than reaching out to Deacon Emma he came to the Church
to announce that he just discovered from Deaconess Oyegun that Deacon
Emma is a thief who has been stealing from him. He went further to tell a
dumb founded congregation that Deacon Emma tried to Poison him. Nobody
could reconcile what he said with the personality and unquestionable
commitment of Deacon Emma.
DEACONESS ESTHER OGOS CASE: Deaconess Esther Ogo was Bishop
Chris’ Head of protocol who was unceremoniously dropped and replaced by a
more pliable young man Daniel Egbo. Daniel Egbo was rapidly promoted to
Deacon and Pastor within two years.
The story was that Deaconess Esther went against Bishop Chris’
instruction to book one Miss Tamie West on the same flight and the same
hotel to Uyo. Miss Tamie west is Bishop Chris choir director who was
known not to be in talking terms with the Bishops wife because she was
romantically linked with Bishop Chris.
The story was that Deaconess Esther felt it was wrong to book
Miss Tamie in the same flight and hotel with Bishop Chris considering
the rumors surrounding their personal relationship. She decided to book
Miss Tamie in a different flight and hotel with other staffs and
ministers for the event.
This action did not go down well with the Bishop and Miss Tamie
west. So on return to Lagos after the event Deaconess Esther was
disgraced out of the department and replaced by inexperienced but loyal
Daniel Egbo. The Deaconess was used to preach and practically ridiculed
out of Manna Mountain [ODM
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MRS DOLAPO KWAKPOVWE, BISHOP CHRIS FIRST WIFE: Bishop Chris
regales his church members with the story of how he wanted to commit
suicide because his wife left him and everybody deserted him. But his
ongoing Divorce proceeding at an Igbosere court reveals that his wife
Pham Dolapo Kwakpovwe left him for serial adultery having caught him on
four occasions on their matrimonial bed with members of the Church then
known as LIBERTY ARMY.
THE WOMAN THAT LOST A TOOTH AT THE STADIUM: every worshipper at
ODM knows this story. A woman attended anointing service at the indoor
spot hall of the National stadium; she failed during ministration and
lost some tooth. The matter was not managed well and the woman went to
court against him. Bishop Chris will preach with this woman on every
occasion calling her a Gold digger, who wants to blackmail and extort
money from him.
DEACON SOLOMON ALO: The last straw was the public ridicule and
humiliation meted on this loyal servant, a fine Christian gentleman who
can lay down his life for Bishop Chris and his church. Deacon Alo was
called all manner of names by the Bishop for daring to appeal to him to
take it easy on mama, his wife who was crying, after another round of
humiliation at a meeting. After the tongue lashing Deacon Alo was
suspended indefinitely
I left the meeting knowing that nobody with the right spirit can survive under this man.
OTHER VICTIMS: Time will fail me to talk about Pastor Chike and
Pastor Patrick Nnadi, pioneer Pastor of Manna Mountain {ODM} church.
Pastor Prophet Shekina Igho, Deaconess Ruth, amongst.
It is a fact that nobody leaves Bishop Chris of ODM without being tarnished as a thief, money grabber, and etc.
Having experienced all these contradictions, it became clear to
me that if I keep resisting his advances I will be next in line on his
casualty list. That is why I started recording his advances for a day
like this when my integrity will come under attack|.
In conclusion, I wish to state as follows:
I did not steal any equipment from ODM
I did not blackmail or collaborate with anybody to blackmail Bishop Chris
I did not go to the police or the press with recordings of his
sex demand, rather he is the one who took me to SARS, using Church money
to induce SARS to intimidate into silence.
I did not clone his voice, if he is sure the voice is not his
let him take necessary steps to prove it. I do not know of any
technology that could clone a man’s voice for hours in a two way
communication.
I never had access to Bishop Chris Phones. I don’t need his phone to extract videos that are sent through Whatsapp.
There is no roaring lion anywhere Bishop Chris Kwakpovwe is the Lion of intimidation.
Nobody is trying to bring him down; it’s just nemesis catching up with him in Gods appointed time.
Let members ask him why was I the only one arrested? You can go
to Ogudu police station to verify this. Other members of the department
came with him as his witness,
Why did he block the police from investigating Adewunmi, the
private security company, the store where the equipment was kept and the
CCTV cameras, if he is not just out to punish me for daring to resist
his advances.
Why was my departmental Head, Deacon Patrick, kept in the dark about this persecution?
I have dozens of tape recording of his amorous calls at ungodly
hours which will be made public soon for those who know him to judge.
It has never been about money, I only want to redeem my name
and my family’S name which he has gone to great extent to tarnish
without cause.
He claims his members who are supposed to be spiritual are
contributing money to fight this case to its logical conclusion instead
of praying to the God of justice to reveal the truth to them. I want his
church members to have the opportunity to know the kind of person he
is.
I dare him to swear by the heavens that the conversation below is fake !!!"
Listen to audio below:
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