SEX SCANDALS ROCKS CHRIST EMBASSY CHURCH IN NIGERIA , BISHOP OYAKHILOMES CHURCH EXPOSED

 

 

 Welcome to Christ Embassy

Rev Oyakhilome & Wife  ( Founders of  Christ Embassy Nigeria )

Chris and Anita Oyakhilome 

 Christ Embassy: Concealed Sex Scandal Exposed (Part II)
WHEN THE CHURCH, CHRIST EMBASSY HELD ITS 2009 CAMP MEETING IN ASABA, YESTERDAY.


Sources close to an Optometrist who currently resides in the United Kingdom reliably informed us that in early 2000, the former high-ranking member of Christ Embassy Lagos, who had mastery of the piano, met and fell in love with a young lady who was also a member of the church. However when he approached Rev. Chris Oyakhilome, he got the shock of his life: he was informed that he could not marry the lady. According to our source, Chris Oyakhilome did not think it was appropriate for a high-ranking member like him to marry a relatively new member of the church. The young lady had in-fact been a committed member of Christ Embassy church for about a year. Irked by this ugly development, she and her fiance left Christ Embassy Lagos and were married a month later at another church.

Penultimate week in Johannesburg great deal of buzz was generated about Christ Embassy's program (Day of Bliss). The Internet, airwaves, streets, and local stores were inundated with the Gospel of ˜Day of Bliss. On every poster or advert is the picture of Chris and Anita Oyakhilome, who are beautifully portrayed as a committed loving Christian couple sold out to God.

However, this image is all a fasade as Chris and Anita's marriage only exists on paper. Their marriage has long been engulfed in a major brouhaha that would get serious ratings, if it were aired on the Jerry Springer Show.

Sources reveal that Rev. Chris Oyakhilome has been separated from his wife for the past six years. For a man who leads a ministry that prides itself in controlling its parishioners by mandating them to marry only within the fold, this is a major dent in his character and Gospel.

Anita became born again at believers Loveworld campus fellowship at Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma, while Chris was the pastor. She has not known any other spiritual tutor or mentor besides him. Chris Oyakhilome's failed marriage attests to the fact that his doctrine of marriage within Christ Embassy is nothing but a fallacy.

Our investigation reveals that Chris Oyakhilome has a habit of controlling everything around him. His modus operandi is to have high-ranking/ rich members of the church marry people who are loyal to him. It is alleged that he is so busy controlling the lives of everyone around him, that he paid little or no attention to the needs in his own marriage.

Whereas Chris Oyakhilome presently resides in South Africa, his estranged wife Anita resides in London with their two children.

In Christ Embassy Ministry, Chris Oyakhilome’s marital quagmire is a closely guarded secret, members under the illusion that work of the ministry is the reason why the two live apart. To perpetuate this grand cover up, the Chris Oyakhilome led ministry conjured the devilish plot of separating pastors and their wives by way of transfers. To test run this scheme from hell, Chris Oyakhilome conscripted his younger brother Kenneth Oyakhilome and his close maternal cousin Tom Amekhiena as guinea pigs for the trials.

Rev. Kenneth Oyakhilome was transferred to South Africa for several years, while his wife Ose Oyakhilome who was Kenneth's associate at Christ Embassy Isolo, was left alone for years in Lagos to raise their children and the head Church in Isolo, until pressure from within the family forced Chris Oyakhilome to let her join her husband in South Africa.

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Sources reveals that like a nomad, Kenneth Oyakhilome has again been transferred from South Africa to Houston, Texas, while his wife will remain in South Africa.

Rev. Tom Amekhiena, Christian Oyakhilome`s enforcer has played a part in this grand cover up as he has been transferred to Christ Embassy churches in Kano and Lagos, while his wife Joy was also left to raise their children and run the church in Benin city.

A source close to Rev. Chris Oyakhilome said, the fact is that his marriage has completely fallen apart”. We could not ascertain the reasons for marital failure as at press time, but feelers suggest that as soon as Anita relocated to London, a female member of Christ embassy (graduate of medicine at Unilag) who served as Chris personal assistant took up the role of acting wife and practically moved into his house in Lagos.

A former high-ranking member of Christ Embassy, told our correspondents that he walked into a scenario that disturbed him for while. According to him, he had gone to Chris Oyakhilomes home one morning and as he walked into the living room he saw Chris Oyakhilome sitting down on the floor, with his head resting on the lap of this personal assistant. She wore short pants and a tank top, while she massaged his jerry-curled head vigorously.

Chris Oyakhilome siblings, worried by the antics and intentions of this young lady who took over his home in Anitas absence alerted his parents. Elder Oyakhilome, Chris Oyakhilome`s Father intervened and ordered Anita to return to Lagos with the children. However as soon as Anita returned to their Lagos residence, Chris Oyakhilome moved his belonging into the church. Members who noticed this anomaly, were told that he needed to seek the face of God. He reportedly refused to go home until Anita returned to London.

Rev. Anita Oyakhilome serves as the director of international operation of Christ Embassy ministry and it is alleged that the reason he has held back from getting a divorce is the negative impact it will have on his doctrine of marriage only within Christ Embassy. In addition, a divorce will cost Chris Oyakhilome a great deal as he will have to cede half of the ministry to his wife. Our sources reveal that the initial major funds with which Chris Oyakhilome kicked off his church operations in Ikeja, Lagos came through her late father, who was the chairman of NDIC under General Sanni Abacha.

Chris Oyakhilomes marital brouhaha has had a rippling effect on the marriages of other high-ranking members of the ministry. Our findings reveal that Pastor Kristen, the wife of the Pastor of Christ Embassy Togo has practically abandoned her husband and four children in Togo to cater to the needs of Chris Oyakhilome in South Africa. It is alleged that her unhappy husband is helpless and careful in airing his grievance in order not to irk his principal. Our sources reveal that her husband who wants another child, has been deprived of his conjugal rights by her prolonged absence from their matrimonial home.

SEX SCANDALS ROCKS CHRIST EMBASSY CHURCH IN NIGERIA , BISHOP OYAKHILOMES CHURCHEXPOSED

Pastor Ebele Uzodike

Benin City, Nigeria

Nov 15th 2009

Another case of sex scandal reported in Christ Embassy in Benin City , Edo state involves  another Christ Embassy Pastor, Mr Ebele Uzodike from Port harcourt who sexually molested his relative's wife who attended his Christ Embassy church in Benin City . The lid was blown when the Pastor's relative and husband to the lady arrived from the United States of America based on information from the church members the lady was confronted and she confessed all the ungodly and evil deeds by the Pastor .A divorce was promptly  filed  based on 

confessions by both the Pastor and his congregation lover. The pastor was at the time engaged to another church member Miss Joy Ndefo. It was ascertained that several women in that Benin City Parish had suffered the same fate under this Pastor, but were terrified that no one would believe them until this case blew open, many have since come forward with their horror stories  about the Pastor who leads a double life.Christ Embassy Overseer in Benin-City and Enugu were these scandal were hatched declined any comments to our reporter, and referred us to the Lagos Head office to lodge a complaint. The Pastor is said to come from a good Christian background in Nnewi area of Anambra state. Our reporter continues to follow the scandal and the on going Divorce case at the Benin City High Court of Justice of Edo state.

Ehime Edosowan

Eagle Eye News Reporter

165B Sapele Road

Benin City, Edo state.

Christ Embassy: Concealed Sex Scandal Exposed (Part III)

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Revealed: Chris Oyakhilome in Fresh Plot to Save Pastor Ehigiator from Murder Charges

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He looks like a matinee idol, dresses like a CEO and speaks with the diction of an airport announcer. And in the estimation of his numerous followers, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome preaches with power and is capable of providing deliverance from all human afflictions.

Since hitting the limelight in the 1990s, the tele-genic Oyakhilome, founder of Christ Embassy, a Pentecostal ministry headquartered in Lagos, has become the face of celebrity Christianity in Nigeria. Simply put, Oyakhilome is glamour and gospel rolled into one. He moves around Lagos in a long convoy of posh automobiles, sirens blaring and shielded by a slew of security men. He also has an intriguing persona. On his birthday, his followers place congratulatory adverts in major newspapers, but none of these has ever revealed his age.

If there are doubts about Oyakhilome's age, there are none about his crowd-pulling power. Among Nigerian Pentecostal pastors, only very few draw bigger crowds than the Edo State-born preacher. His weekly services are said to draw an average of 30,000 faithful, more than some European soccer teams draw for their games. Many of his followers travel from far places, some of which already have satellite arms of the church, just to be in his presence. Oyakhilome's open air crusades attract monstrous attendances.

At every crusade, seats are booked in advance. The last of these took place at his newly acquired Miracles Ground said to be about 3,000 hectares on the Lagos/lbadan expressway tagged Good Friday Miracle Night, the programme attracted an estimated 500,000 faithful.

With the turnout, vehicular movement became chaotic, sentencing road users to a wait of between eight and 10 hours. Also because of the traffic gridlock, some Christ Embassy members spent the night trapped on the road.

But Oyakhilome did not have to endure the hardship. He was the star of the show and got a star treatment by being flown to the event in a helicopter. While other road users seethed and cursed, Oyakhilome's followers were in rapture. To them, the pastor's blessings were more than enough compensation for the hardship. Some even suggested that non-followers had been richly blessed-for spending almost half a day on a 30-minute journey!

But such is the spell-binding effect of the man fondly called Pastor Chris, an object of adulation rather than admiration. His name is mentioned with deference, a gesture extended to Anita, his mulatto wife and director of the church's international operations. She also pastors the satellite arms in the United Kingdom. Oyakhilome's appearance on the pulpit for crusades sparks hysteria, characterised by howling, shrieking and frenzied waving of arms. Though frequently hit by scandal and perennial public doubt of his claims to healing powers, Oyakhilome remains infallible to his followers, who explain the criticisms and scandals as persecution.

This is hardly surprising, given that they are drip-fed on his teachings. One important teaching of Oyakhilome and of other Pentecostal preachers is "sowing the seed." This requires followers to give part of their earnings to the church in offerings and tithes.

The expected dividends on these are divine blessings. With a church full of young company executives and businessmen, every programme guarantees enormous revenue. Those without money, said a source, are enjoined to turn in their jewelry, wrist¬ watches and other personal items as offering or tithes. As the source told this medium, followers fall over one another to do that, expecting God to turn on his tap of blessings. Others give cars, generators, musical equipment and chairs to the church.

In March 2002, Lawrence Agada, an assistant pastor who was a cashier with the Lagos Sheraton Hotels and Towers, donated cash and gifts totaling N39 million to the church. Agada's donations were in installments. He bought a 2S0KVA generator valued at N4.4 million, and another 27KVA generator for NI.5 million, which he donated to a satellite branch of the church.

Before then, he had given N6 million for the refurbishment of the branch, as well as N1 million for the purchase of plastic seats for the headquarters. Agada also contributed N1million to the success of a mega¬ crusade tagged Night of Bliss. His parish pastor, who had no money for a trip to Australia, was given N400, 000. In appreciation, Oyakhilome wrote Agada: "May God, who gives seed to the sower and bread for eating, multiply your seeds in Jesus name."
Rather than receive God's blessings, Agada became a guest of the police when his employers discovered that he had stolen from them to give to the church. Agada's employers also insisted that Oyakhilome should refund the money. But the church issued a statement admitting that Agada made donations, but refused to make a refund.


A year later, Gbenga Kehinde, another member, donated to the church in similar circumstances. Then an assistant manager with Eko International Bank, Kehinde stole about N40 million from his employers and donated N 10 million to the church. That also became a messy affair.

But Oyakhilome has income streams other than offerings, tithes and donations. Though trained as an Architect, he appears to have a sharp business sense which has enabled him to exploit his marketability. Like David Beckham, England 's soccer star, Oyakhilome's name and face sell huge quantities of merchandise, which make him such a rich preacher of the gospel.

These include books, video tapes of his crusades and miracles, audio tapes, CDs, VCDs and DVDs of his teachings, which are sold at the various parishes and through agents. They can also be bought online, via the digital media store on the church's websites.

One of the church's websites advertises audio and visual materials on various aspects of the Christian faith. In Nigeria, a video tape costs between N300 and N1,300. CDs are bought for between N300 and N1,300, while DVDs attract between N600 and N3,600. There are also various books which cost between N200 and N450. All are written by Oyakhilome and Anita, his wife.


The most successful of these is Rhapsody of Realties, a bi¬monthly devotional guide. The book, which is published in 25 languages and also has a children's version, is considered a companion to the Bible. For Oyakhilome's followers around the world, it is an important emblem of faith. In Nigeria, it costs N350. Abroad, it is $5, while a one-year subscription attracts $43.20. For on-line purchases, video tapes, CDs, VCDs and DVDs cost between $18 and $20.

The colourful preacher's interest in television hardly came as a surprise. Until 2004, when the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) barred thy airing of unverifiable faith healings on television, Oyakhilome was the biggest patron of Nigerian television stations. His Atmosphere for Miracles (ATM), ran seven days a week, on about 20 TV stations.


Oyakhilome's messages are also received on pocket personal computers, mobile phones and palmtops. While the steady streams of income have kept him in affluence, they have also provided the muscle for other businesses and more importantly thy expansion of his church.

About two months ago, Oyakhilome bought over the ailing Minaj Television from Senator Mike Ajeigbo. Though details of the deal' are undisclosed, the station's staff, who have been unpaid for 18 months, are hoping that Oyakhilome will work his famed miracles on their lives.

The colourful preacher's interest in television hardly came as a surprise. Until 2004, when the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) barred thy airing of unverifiable faith healings on television, Oyakhilome was the biggest patron of Nigerian television stations. His Atmosphere for Miracles (ATM), ran seven days a week, on about 20 TV stations.

Even with the NBC ban, Oyakhilome still retains his slots, replacing the ATM with Teaching Programme and LoveWorld: The ATM continues to run, twice a week, on Ghana 's Metro TV and throughout the week on LoveWorld Christian Network, 'ii, satellite channel owned by Oyakhilome. It also runs on TBN in South Africa.

This, naturally, costs huge sums of money. But Oyakhilome's business interests transcend television. These new business, dreams, which when realised, will establish him as a genuine tycoon. Lined up are an airline, named Skypower, and Dickson's., a fast food chain conceived to rival the behemoth Mr. Bigg's, owned by United African Company (UAC). For the airline, the pastor is said to have begun acquiring planes for its operations,. He is also said to have interest in music, with his debut CD dud for release soon. The initiative to go into music, all things being equal, should yield even more income for the handsome preacher.

Oyakhilome may dominate the airwaves, but he does not own the biggest church facility. That honour, allegedly, belongs to Bishop David Oyedepo, founder of Living Faith Ministries a.k.a. Winners' Chapel. Situated in Ota, Ogun State , the six¬sided church-named Shiloh or Faith Tabernacle has a capacity of 50,000 worshippers and features a 5,000-strong choir. In Lagos, members are given free bus rides to the church.

The church auditorium, which took just one year to build, is touted as the world's biggest church building. During construction, carried out by architects and engineers who are members of the church and who worked for free, a trailer was said to have made a smooth U-turn inside the hall without having to engage the reverse gear.

 

 

Despite barrage of reactions from a number of critics who have been challenging the frequent feature of Christ Embassy Church, its Pastors and ultimately the founder, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, in various bizarre and disturbing stories, these critics would still have the reasons to express their delight or displeasure even more, as such stories have seized to break from the same Church whose leadership has been enmeshed in series of corrupt act, sex scandal and every other unprintable immoralities. 

Recently huhuonline.com gathered that a case has been instituted against Pastor Joseph Ehigiator, at High Court 1 in Benin City by family of the deceased (his wife), they are claiming that the pastor killed their daughter late Pastor (Mrs.) Efe Ehigiator (nee Omoroguipon), in cold blood last year, 2008. The family resides at No 33 Ukhegbe Street, Benin; the bereaved family cannot still get out of the shock of their beloved one especially the father Rev. Innocent Omoroguipon. Indications however show that Pastor Oyakhilome is doing everything possible to free Pastor Joseph Ehigiator who is one of their own from the murder charge. A source confirmed that since the whole escapades began they have since been seeing the hands of Oyakhilome in the whole process in an attempt to free the man who is at the centre of the storm. Immediately the incident happened the husband took their 5 year old son and ran away. And to facilitate his escape from justice, Christ Embassy people organised security escort for him from Sapele to the church headquarters in Benin . This is not known to anybody and the Police were about to declare him wanted. Along the line, the Police got information that he was hiding at Christ Embassy and they moved in to effect his arrest, Police were told he was not with the church. The matter was subsequently reported to Police AIG he instructed them to provide him all cost. Suddenly, as if it was one of his miracles, Pastor Oyakhilome appeared in Benin along with wanted Pastor, the girl friend and the gardener.

Pastor Joseph Ehigiator and late wife(Efe).

It becomes astonishing that he was in Benin when they were about to break the door of the church to apprehend the pastor who was alleged to be hidden there. Since then, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has been trying to use his connection and money to free the pastor, doing everything possible to frustrate the family in his bid to save the battered image of the church. Late Pastor (Mrs.) Efe Ehigiator was formerly Deputy Manager of UBA plc, Sapele branch before her untimely death, and was married to Pastor Ehigiator over 8 years ago before the unprecedented tragedy. Huhuonline.com gathered that the deceased had earlier called the marriage off some years back, resigned her appointment with UBA and travelled to UK. But while in UK she met Pastor Chris’s wife Anita, who advised/counselled her to settle with her husband and return to Nigeria after about 2 years of separation.  Heeding the advice of her ‘spiritual mother’ she came back to Nigeria and informed her father who opposed the re-union, knowing that it will not bring any good results since Pastor Joe had earlier sent people to them that he is no longer interested in the marriage. But against the family’s wish, she went back to him.  

Consequently, available facts disclosed that Pastor Ehigiator who was meant to be conducting a vigil that night returned to the apartment where Efe was and for the unsusupecting Efe, when she saw him she was said to have been profusely elated to see her husband coming to see her at home, in anticipation that it was God who brought him through her prayers. She welcomed him and was even said to have prepared a meal for him not knowing that that would be the last super she would prepare on the planet earth. Four days after (on April 26) her body was said to have been found by church members who visited her to visit how she was faring. It was these church members that informed her family members that her body was laying critically in the hospital. Meanwhile when her family members got to the hospital they were confronted with great shock of their lives when they were told that she was brought in dead (BID) and that examination conducted on her showed a mark around her neck region which indicated a broken bon, evidence that she was strangled to death in cold blood with her 8 months pregnancy. Right now the family is waiting patiently for the outcome of the court case, which they know that Oyakhilome and his men are trying to influence as they did when Pastor Oyakhilome brought Pastor Joe to the Police station and was trying to secure bail for him. But the Police vehemently insisted on thorough investigations to the murder. But the anxiety of many people is that with the enormous money at the church’s disposal they can do anything to favour their pastor at the expense of deceased whose life was summarily quizzed out.

Pastor Tom Amekhiena

       

Further retrospective checks revealed that the gory details became public knowledge when Pastor Joseph Ehigiator fled after committing the heinous crime but was arrested in the inner sanctum of the Benin headquarters of the church by detectives from Zone 5 Police Divisional Headquarters, Benin, Edo State. A petition written by the father of the deceased, Reverend Innocent Omoroguikpon, to the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 5, Mr. Udom Ekpoudom, evidently exposed the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death and pleaded for the AIG’s intervention to actdispassionately over the matter. Rev. Omoroguikpon disclosed that on Saturday, 26 April 2008 around 3 p.m., he received some strange visitors from Christ Embassy who told him that his daughter had been shot by armed robbers at her residence and was receiving medical attention along with her husband at an undisclosed hospital in Sapele. “On getting to the hospital, the doctor denied ever admitting her husband and upon examination, the doctor discovered that the deceased was brought with cyanosis subconjunctotival petechia and evidence of a noose mark around her neck,” Rev. Omoroguikpon narrated.  

He disclosed further that the doctor confirmed that she had an unduly floppy neck (indicative of broken neck), an evidence that she was strangled. He urged Ekpoudom to act fast and prevent Pastor Ehigiator from fleeing the country because he holds a valid British visa which can aid his escape during that period. He also informed the police boss that Ehigiator had earlier planned to relocate to the United Kingdom with his girlfriend, Miss Oweil. Going down memory lane, the distraught father explained that the bitter acrimony between his daughter and her husband started in 2005 when the deceased learnt of the relationship between Pastor Ehigiator and the church secretary through some members of the church. The father of the deceased woman disclosed that whenever the deceased complained she was always beaten up and injured. “Over time, when the beating became so frequent because of the girlfriend, I had to call the attention of Pastor Tom Amienhkienan, head Pastor of Christ Embassy, Benin City. “Upon his intervention, the mistress was transferred from Sapele last year. “When Miss Oweil found her way back to Sapele late in 2007 to resume work as secretary in the same church, my daughter, who was already three months pregnant, informed the husband and his reaction was that she should terminate the pregnancy because he was not ready for the baby. “Her refusal to terminate the pregnancy, coupled with the fact that his mistress was back in Sapele, led him to pack his belongings out of the house to a new apartment, which he did not disclose to his wife. “But within the same time he packed out, my late daughter received text messages threatening her life and that of her only son. Each time the man (Pastor Ehigiator) came and she reported the matter, he (Ehigiator) would seize her phone. This was why over the last four months she had to buy several phones which were seized and never returned to her.  

“On the fateful night she was murdered, he came to the house where my daughter lived at about 10 p.m., having abandoned her for no reason, the regular end of month prayers over which he was supposed to preside as the head Pastor of the church,” the father stated in his petition. He asserted that records show that “the suspect left the church at about 10 p.m. when he handed over the moderation of church activities to an assistant pastor, and it was within the same time and early Saturday that the deceased was murdered, after which the suspect escaped. Reverend Omoroguikpon also expressed dissatisfaction with a purported autopsy conducted at Sapele, saying “there is new information to exclude the fact that she was murdered by strangulation and this portrays foul play. “We cannot explain why the autopsy finding is trying to pin what happened to an ongoing illness which we cannot name. Why would it be when she allegedly had an attack by robbers that the sudden illness came up? There were several other physical findings on her body (bruises and blisters) that they could not provide answers to. It therefore meant that the autopsy was tampered with,” Reverend Innocent Omoroguikpon said. However, Police Public Relations Officer of Zone 5, Mr. Ebi Orubiri, an Assistant Superintendent of Police ASP, said the suspect was being detained along with the church secretary at Sapele, before the case was transferred to the zone following a petition to the AIG in that respect. Orubiri hinted that detectives from the zonal Criminal Investigation Bureau, CIB ,and the Criminal Investigation Department, CID, have commenced investigation into the matter which will be made public in the shortest possible time. Christ Embassy:www.modernghana.com

 

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