Few weeks after the story of
"fake miracles" scandal rocked
a pentecostal church in Akwa
Ibom State, the man, Bishop
David Amoussou, who was
fingered 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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