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| Moniaye with the letter he wrote Adeboye |
Few days after a Redeemers University
undergraduate killed and butchered his dad at their Redemption Camp home,
another messy controversy is trailing Pastor Enoch Adeboye’s church again.
This time, a visibly angry United Kingdom-based
Nigerian, Ayadi Moniaye, has accused the Jubilee Parish of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God in Manchester, UK, of turning his ex-wife against him
which eventually ended their marriage.
Moniaye, in this news monitored by SHOWBIZPLUSng
said he got married to his wife in 2000, and the marriage packed up in 2009,
after years of domestic violence.
The father of three alleged that a group in the
parish taught women how to get the support of the UK immigration policy by
abusing their spouses.
He said, “Nigerian women in the UK were
brainwashed by the group to abuse their husbands so they can claim their
husbands’ property and exploit the UK immigration policy to their advantage.
“I challenged the church, telling the
coordinators of the programme that the Bible did not support such practice.
Unknown to me, my wife was part of it.”
He said his wife assaulted him on many occasions,
but he did not retaliate which got her frustrated.
Moniaye said, “On one of such occasions, she
injured me. She later called the police to drive me out of the house. When the
police got to our home, they met the children around me, consoling me, and
because of what they saw, they could not drive me out of the house.
“After series of such unprovoked attacks, my wife
admitted that she was maltreating me to get me out of the house.”
Moniaye showed our correspondent documents
detailing his ordeals in the UK, including an alleged accusation by his wife
that he was mentally unstable.
The allegation of mental instability was,
however, rejected by a document dated June, 2010 and issued by one Dr R.A.
Jones of Manchester Mental Health.
The document read in part, “As far as I am aware,
our Team Manager, Emma Hinchcliff, has also contacted the Children and Families
Social Services to outline our thoughts that there is no evidence of you
suffering with a major mental illness at present.”
Another document by one Mama ‘Toro, an elder in
the community, dated February 2011, read that Moniaye had been beaten several
times by his wife.
Moniaye told our correspondent that although he
had been separated from his wife, he was concerned about the negative
impression such incidents were creating for Nigerians.
He said all efforts to get the matter to the
attention of the General Overseer of the church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, had been
rebuffed by protocol officers.
“I am deeply concerned about the way women are
portraying the image of this country to the outside world. And it is
unfortunate that the church would be used as a platform for this. My concern is
how we can correct this impression,” he added.
PUNCH Metro contacted Jubilee Church,
Manchester, through its official telephone lines.
An official of the church told our correspondent
that the pastor would not respond to the allegation.
The official, who did not give his name, said, “I
can tell you that the pastor will not want to talk about it. But I appreciate
the call and will pass your message across to him.”
It was learnt that police in Manchester, which
investigated the case, sent a feedback to Moniaye.
The reaction reads, “Inspector O’Reilly followed
up the allegations you made, and on one occasion he attended the church on Hyde
Road to verify your story. He spoke to the pastor, who told him that they found
you to be intractable and not only did they not confirm your account, they
stated that they were concerned for you and prayed for you.”
PUNCH Metro visited the national
headquarters of the RCCG at Oyingbo, Lagos, where he met one of the church
pastors.
He directed our correspondent to the Redemption
Camp on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, saying matters of such magnitude were
usually addressed there.
The Chief Legal Officer, Pastor Ayodele Oladeji,
said, “Yes, a letter has been received at our office here, written by Moniaye,
requesting to see Daddy G.O., and we are treating it.
“I want to assure you that even those who write
to Daddy G.O. on ordinary piece of paper receive attention. We will investigate
this and know what happened.
“We have all the documents which Moniaye has
submitted to us. He will get a redress of his case with a little patience. We
ourselves could feel his pulse with facts on the documents. But you know for
now it is still one sided until we get the other side (from the UK church).”
Punch
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