Pastor defiles teenage member, introduces her to alcohol

Pastor Kingsley Emeka Mokwunye of the Amagba branch of Living Faith Church, popularly called Winners Chapel near Benin City, Edo state is currently in the custody of the Department of State Security (DSS) for having the canal knowledge on multiple occasions of a 17-year old girl (names withheld) who is a member of the church. 

The teenager told journalists in Benin City Wednesday that the pastor introduced her to alcohol and has sex with her severally and on one occasion in her father’s house.

  In tears, she said the affair started September last year shortly after she finished her secondary education.

  According to her, “He used to call me to advise me to stay away from  boys, to live a good life and always respect my parents. I took it like he was my own father that I could trust and tell him anything I want to say. 

  “That was how he started calling me, talking to me till it gets to a time he told me that he likes me. I took it as a normal thing. He started taking advantage of me. He tells me I do not know what he is doing for me. He started showing me things I have not seen before and took me to places I have never been to. That was how it started. He was the first person to show me how condom looked like. He taught me how to take alcohol. 

   “He told me not to tell my parents. He said they will understand what he is doing.   He slept with me many times including in our house when my parents are not at home. 

   “Thinking about the thing has affected me educationally. I could not read. The whole thing was disturbing me. When I told his wife, she said I was lying and told me to come to their house and repeat it before her husband.
   “I want Pastor Kingsley to go to jail. I was always shocked anytime I am in church and see him preaching. I was afraid of telling my mother what was happening”.

   Her father who is also the Board Chairman of the church branch, Mr, Paul Obidah, said he was shocked that a Pastor he trusted could destroy his only daughter.

  Paul said what pained him was that Pastor Kingsley had sex with his daughter in his house and even when his daughter was having her monthly flow.

   He said he want justice in the case and not swept under the carpet.

  His words, “I have been in the church for the past 27 years. I started the church in Kaduna State. Abioye led me to Christ. I have been in Kaduna all these years. It got to a time. I decided to relocate home.

   “We have been in Bénin serving God with our heart. Many pastors have come to the branch and go. I see the pastors as Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith. There was a day Pastor Kingsley came to my house, I could smell alcohol from his breath”.