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Thursday, 24 April 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Estranged wife of Pastor Chris Okafor accuses him of assault

Even a man of God is being accused of battery?
Wow! The estranged wife of the pastor of
Mountain of Liberation Miracles Ministires, Dr.
Chris Okafor, has accused him of beating her up
at their home in Magodo, Lagos, Punch reports.
Bessem Okafor, who has been separated from Dr Okafor for two years and lives apart from him, said she had gone to her former marital home a few weeks ago to visit her four kids who were in the custody of their father when trouble started.

Bessem told Punch
"I have not seen my children for nine
months and our lawyers agreed that I could
come see them at home after school hours
by 5pm. I went to the house at the appointed time, but my children were not there. I had to wait outside in the compound until 10pm before my husband arrived; the children were not with him.
They were later brought home by the driver
about 12am. By then it was clear I couldn't
leave again, I had to spend the night.

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The following morning, I bathed and dressed them for school. They pleaded with me to stay back until they returned and since I hardly spent time with them the day before, I agreed."
A few hours after her children had left for school, Bessem received a phone call from Chris who had also left the house. He allegedly questioned her presence in the house and ordered her to leave.
When Bessem insisted on staying till her children returned from school, Chris allegedly sent a policeman who was part of his entourage to the house.
She said, "The policeman told me to leave the house.
At that time, I was wearing only my dress. I
had washed my undies and spread them to
dry since I didn't come with extra. I told the
policeman that I would leave after my
children returned from school. Later, Chris
came in and on seeing me, he started
beating me and dragged me out of the
house."
She said some policemen came to arrest her, but could not go with them because her clothes
were torn. The following day after making a
complaint of assault at the Isheri Police Division,
she was hospitalised at the Solid Rock Hospital,
in the Ojodu/Berger area.
A copy of her medical report made available to
Punch said Bessem was brought in for treatment after a brawl with her spouse.
It reads in part,
"Examination revealed a middle aged woman in distress with multiple bruises, BP 140/80mmhg and pulse rate 104bpm.
There was inflammation around the left
knee and tenderness along the spine. She
was subsequently admitted, placed on
intravenous fluids and managed as case of
multiple trauma secondary to domestic
violence."
The report was signed by one Dr. Ametepee
T. M.
Chris, when contacted, did not respond to calls
and a text message to his phone. However, Chris lawyer, Ubani, said,
"Bessem has made all sorts of allegations
against her husband, but what she has
failed to tell you is that she left her marriage
of her own volition. She ended her marriage
with her infidelity. She would leave her
house, come back at late hours and would
not tell her husband where she has been.
"The couple are already in court for divorce.
This particular incident you are asking
about, it was Bessem who tore her own
clothes. Chris never laid a hand on her. Why
did she not get a medical report from a
government hospital?
"If she was truly assaulted she would have
gone to the station to make a report. Then
they would give her a paper to take to a
public hospital. That of the private hospital
is not admissible in court. Chris never
refused her access to her children; they
were simply brought to the church because
his mother and cousin were not at home.
After bringing some policemen from Isheri
to arrest Chris while he was at the pulpit,
she still went ahead to Zone 2 to make
another report."
The PPRO Zone 2, SP Lewi Suleimann, when
contacted said, "We are still waiting to get the
file transferred from the Isheri Police Station. I
would not like to comment much before we get
the file."

Source: Punch

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