CYRIACUS IZUEKWE
Pastor Patrick Esigbone of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, TREM, Orioke branch in Ejigbo, Lagos has landed in trouble after he allegedly attacked and stripped naked, wife of a fellow pastor who is also his tenant.
P.M.EXPRESS gathered that the offended husband and pastor, Charles Okeke has now demanded a tit-for-tat by insisting that Esigbone must strip his own wife naked so that he will feast his own eyes on her nude body as Esigbone have seen his wife’s.
However, the demand proved too difficulty to comply with by Esigbone as he declined to do so, and thus Okeke went to the police at Ikotun division to report of a case of assault and Esigbone was arrested.
The suspect was already on administrative bail.
The incident happened at 21, Makanjuola street, Hostel bus stop in Agodo Egbe area of Lagos.
Our correspondent gathered that Okeke’s anger was not about the assault melted to his wife, but the fact that Esigbone stripped her wife naked in his Okeke’s bedroom and saw her virtue.
P.M.EXPRESS gathered that the two family’s relationship strained after Okeke moved his family to Esigbone’s house and discovered that he had incurred electricity bill arrears to the tune of N300,000.
Okeke declined to connect light from the landlord’s meters but went to the electricity distribution company to acquire his own private meter.
This caused serious disagreement and constant quarrel between the supposedly men of God.
This rancour then expanded and spread to other members of both family.
Okeke confirmed the incident to P.M.EXPRESS and said that he wants the matter to be charged to court for the assault and destruction of his property.
However, Esigbone denied the allegations and told our correspondent that Okeke family was not respecting him as their landlord yet he bears everything in the interest of peace.
P.M.EXPRESS gathered that the police recovered from Okeke’s bedroom, the landlord sandal and was unable to explain how the sandal got there.
The matter has been transferred to Area M Command where Esigbone is seeking the intervention of Area Commander to resolve the matter without him stripping his wife naked for Okeke.