Housewife Loses Husband, Children To False Prophecy

CHUKA UBAH

A housewife, one Mrs. Eucharia Anowai, is reportedly today a sad woman as her once peaceful marriage appeared broken and her home has been thrown into confusion over false prophecies by her spiritual directors,  Prophet Chinedu Nwaoha and his wife, Ndidiamaka of the Holy Ghost School Fellowship in Jakande Estate in Ejigbo, Lagos.

The church is located at Eckankar Street in Jakande Estate, Ejigbo, Lagos, where some of their members were said to be held captive with false prophecies and were not allowed to own property and children.

The embattled mother of four, apart from experiencing a broken marriage, was said to have as well lost her children owing to the prophecy by the pastor and his wife. She has been left in agony and pains with the matter being worsened with litigation at the High Court in Lagos.

According to Mrs. Anowai, she was introduced to the church by her friend for spiritual help and the church was said to have discovered that her husband, who is a business man, was well to do and they encouraged her to bring her husband, Pius, to join the church. But her husband refused and they started giving her prophecies which she believed only to realise later that they were all false.

She narrated that she was first told that her husband of over 24 years was an occult man and wanted to kill her and the children. P.M.EXPRESS reports that she and her children abandoned her husband and started living inside the church. While there, she served the pastor and his wife including their children.

Another prophecy was given to her children that their mother wanted them dead and that they should avoid both her and their father. She said that happened at the time she became suspicious of the antics of the pastor and prophecies because she had lived peacefully with her husband before she became a member of the church.

Mrs. Anowai said that following the false prophecy against her, the children also abandoned both parents, moved closer to the pastor and started living with him. They were said to have also changed their surnames to the pastor’s own.

Mrs. Anowai reportedly blamed herself for what happened and is now pleading with well meaning Nigerians to come to her aid.
“I have lost my husband and children over false prophecies and i take responsibility for what happened. I want my husband to forgive me and Nigerians to help me to rescue my children” she said.

P.M.EXPRESS confirmed that the matter became worse following the recent development at the Lagos High Court by the children aided by the church. The four children were said to have filed fundamental rights violation suit against their parents, Pius and Eucharia Anowai, the Inspector- General of Police and eight others before a Federal High Court in Lagos for putting them under house arrest.
Other defendants in the suit marked , FHC/L/CS /2031/18, before Justice Babs Kuewumi, were the Commissioner of Police, Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi , Lagos, Mrs. Nkem Ezeonwu ; Assistant Commissioner of Police, Akinyemi Bose; and Inspector John Akogun of the Financial Monitoring and Intelligence Unit of the Police Special Fraud Unit , Lekki, Lagos; Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Edgal Imohimi ; Divisional Police Officer, Ejigbo Police Division, Mr. Ovie Dominic ; the Divisional Crime Officer, Ejigbo Police Division ; and one Mrs. Motunrayo of the Ejigbo Police Division .

24-year-old Chioma as well as Stephen, 22; Rita, 20; and Joseph, 18, are demanding the sum of N200m as damages from the defendants.
Chioma and her three siblings, apart from the sum of N200m in damages, are also seeking the order of the Court declaring that their arrest, detention, intimidation, torture, humiliation, harassment and forcible extraction of undertaking from them not to belong to the Holy Ghost School Fellowship located at 13, Eckankar Drive , Jakande Estate, Oke -Afa, Isolo, Lagos, by the police at the instance of their parents, was arbitrary, unlawful and contrary to sections 34, 35, 37, 38, 40 and 46 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended ).
They are also seeking the order of the Court to declare that the seizure of their telephones since 2017 till date by ACP Bose Akinyemi and John Akogun was a violation of their rights as guaranteed by Section 37 of the constitution and a declaration that they are entitled to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, including freedom to change their religion or belief from Roman Catholicism to the Holy Ghost School Fellowship.
Chioma, a graduate of Pharmacy, in a deposed affidavit, alleged that prior to her admission and graduation from the university, her parents were constructively separated though living together in the same house but were not in good terms as husband and wife, which she noted robbed her and her siblings of affection, care and emotional support.
She added that due to the continual disharmony between their parents, her father abandoned them, relocated to another place and allegedly refused to care for them till they attained adulthood.
The 24-year-old graduate noted that while growing up, their mother was a member of the Holy Ghost School Fellowship, Oke -Afa, Isolo, Lagos, which she introduced them to and made them members in 2013, adding that when their mother stopped being a member of the church, they found spiritual fulfilment in the church as their parents were at war with each other.
Chioma further alleged that their mother had threatened to disown them if they continued as members of the church, adding that on August 31, 2018, while she was in the church premises, her mother and some police officers from the SFU arrested, tortured, harassed her and one of her siblings, and threw them into a waiting police van.
The four siblings also want the court to make an order directing the police to release their personal effects and an order of perpetual injunction restraining the police, their agents and privies from arresting, harassing , intimidating and detaining them based on their religious beliefs .
Chioma said, “When I got to the police station, I realised that my father was the petitioner and we were made to answer allegations of being abducted and kidnapped by the Holy Ghost Fellowship. We were handcuffed, humiliated, our photographs were taken and we were dragged to a corner to make statements denouncing our membership of the fellowship and not to step into the fellowship again or move away from our parents’ home from morning till night.
“In order to enforce compliance with the undertaking, our cell phones, which included Samsung S5 valued at N105, 000; Tecno WX 3 valued at N35, 000; and Tecno Y 2 valued at N15, 000; and Samsung S4 valued at N80,000, belonging to a member of the fellowship, were confiscated till date.
“My academic certificates, which included the Madonna University’s Pharmacy degree certificate, provisional licence to practise and other certificates are in my parents’ custody; I’m unable to apply to perform an internship with any pharmaceutical company as well as the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps” she said.
According to Chioma, the respondents in the suit have brought untold hardship on her and her siblings, as they are now living like destitutes, which has exposed them to the vagaries of life as their comfort has been distorted and they have become unemployable to the business environment .
Though the defendants have not filed any counter motion to the suit, the matter has been fixed for February 14, 2019, for hearing
When our correspondent visited the church, our reporter was not allowed to enter the church or see Prophet Chinedu and his wife.