Drama in church as wife accuses pastor of impregnating female member

Mrs. Idongesit Ese ... when she was allegedly beaten and ran over with an SUV by the husband, Nsikanabasi Ese

It was an embarrassing scene at a local church in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Wednesday, when the wife of the founder and pastor of the church openly informed worshippers that her husband was not just living an adulterous life but had impregnated a female member of the church.

The pastor’s wife, Idongesit Ese, was prevented from entering the auditorium of Kairos Rhema Embassy. But she defiantly stood at the church premises to tell her story.

“I want every man and woman who has conscience in this church to ask my husband why he is doing this to me, why would he be sleeping with a young girl who came to seek counseling and prayers from him,” Mrs. Ese said with teary eyes to a handful of churchgoers who gathered around her.

“I caught my husband in a hotel having sex with Evelyn Etim, a member of our church. As I speak to you, Evelyn has given birth to a baby boy and she is living in Eket with my husband.”

Pastor Nsikanabasi Ese of Kairos Rhema Embassy, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State

Ms. Etim, accused of having an affair with the pastor, could not be reached.

Nsikanabasi Ese, the pastor of Kairos, may have had a hint of the wife’s intention, it seemed. As soon as the wife stepped out of the car and walked up to the front of the church, a dozen of young men said to be hired thugs accosted her and told her that she did not have the pastor’s permission to attend the church service.

The incident occurred around 12 noon at Bassey Esau Street, off Aka Itiam, where the church is located.

Witnesses told newsmen that they saw one of the thugs slap the pastor’s wife.

The pastor’s wife, Mrs. Ese, brought out photos from her handbag and showed them around to buttress her points. She showed people a photo of herself with a bloodied face.

“That’s when my husband, so called man of God, beat me and hit me with his car and ran away with Evelyn Etim when I caught them in the hotel,” she explained.

She also displayed a photo of a young woman whom she said was that of the alleged intruder, Evelyn Etim.

Mrs. Ese said she was pregnant for the pastor but that the baby died mysteriously in her womb two days to delivery some three years ago.

The programme that was going on in Kairos on the day of the incident was a “special emergency deliverance service” with the theme “One of Us Is in Trouble”.

A clergyman, identified as Moses, who stood in as Mr. Ese’s father during his traditional marriage, reporters that he was disappointed with what was happening in the pastor’s five-year-old marriage.

“He (Mr. Ese) didn’t give me any vital reason why he should divorce the wife, he just said the woman is harsh, the woman is this. I said to him, ‘have you reported to me since I came and signed as a father to you (during the marriage ceremony), have you brought the woman to say this is what the woman did?’

“I told him since you’ve never brought the woman to tell me this is what she has done wrong, I am not in support of your divorce,” Mr. Moses said.