Popular Naija Pastor's Fake Miracles Scandal Gets Messy

Few weeks after the story of "fake miracles" scandal rocked a
pentecostal church in Akwa Ibom State, the man, Bishop David
Amoussou, who was fingered as the mastermind of the arranged
instant healing scam has again been embroiled in a very messy wife
snatching tango.
The City of Truth Chapel International, aka, Holy Ghost Embassy,
under the leadership of Bishop Israel Usoro ran into trouble when
some pastors of the church resigned and opted to blow the lid off the
wind of instant miracles blowing in each of the church service, which
they described as fake as beneficiaries of such miracles were hired
and paid. They had claimed that the “new form of evangelism” was
introduced to the church by Bishop Amoussou when he came as a
guest minister early in the year.
While the controversy surrounding the scandal is yet to abate, a man
who claimed that Bishop Usoro’s spiritual partner, that is Bishop
Davis Amoussou, has destroyed his family, stormed The Sun
Newspaper’s office and in tears narrated how the controversial Bishop
snatched his beautiful wife...
His words: “My name is Ndifreke Benson, I am reacting to your story
in Saturday Sun. When I read through the story, it was talking about a
certain prophet, a certain Bishop. I can remember it was this same so
called man of God that came with one man that comes from Ghana,
called Bishop David Amoussou. Bishop David Amoossou has already
taken my wife.
“He called me in May and said when he comes back in September, he
would take my wife and I would do nothing. And in September when
he came, I got a call from the police. In fact, for the three days that
he was in Uyo, my wife never slept at home. I only met my wife in the
police station, Ikot Akpan Abia, where she sat down with David
Amoussou and the other Pastor of Paul Bassey Street, Israel Usoro .
They accused me of coming to the hotel where they lodged with my
wife to kidnap them.
"Even the O.C state anti-kidnapping who knows me very well was
shocked over such accusation. It was the elder brother of my wife that
came to dismiss the case. He was even telling the police what David
Amoussou has done to his sister. My wife has three children.
“I brought her up 16 years ago before she got the job at NEPA. And
just because they have paid her severance allowance, David
Amoussou, got the information through the other Bishop, who brought
David Amoussou to come and cast a spell on my wife and took my
wife.
“Right now, my wife is half mad. She does not even know the brother
or the sister or listen to anybody or want to see me right now. My
wife has gone and they have rented a house somewhere and she is
living with David Amoussou. She is even planning to marry him. She
had called my friend to tell him that she would be sending a wedding
card to him. So, this is what these people are doing in Uyo. I am a
victim and the story has to be investigated properly.”
Asked whether he had ever made attempt to harass Amoussou over
his alleged relationship with his wife, the distraught Benson said “I
never knew him at all. All I knew was that my wife did not sleep at
home for three nights. And the day my wife was at the police, I was in
a business centre typing a document, and they claimed it was at that
time that I went to the hotel to kidnap them. I was shocked. That is
to show you that David Amoussou wants to kill me in order to take
my wife.”
He said the police had to quickly dismiss the kidnap case because
Amoussou himself said that somebody told him that he (Benson) is a
very dangerous person that was why he went to the police.
“My wife is under his custody . For over two months now, I have not
set my eyes on my wife. I have made all efforts to trace where she is
but she does not want to see anyone that knows her. The only call I
got was that of my friend who told me she was ready to print a
wedding card with David Amoussou. Some other people are even
telling me now that she has changed her name from Esther Ndifreke
Benson to Esther David Amoussou”, Benson lamented.
He said he had approached the Christian association of Nigeria, CAN,
and other notable Christian leaders like popular Rev Uma Ukpai to
help him retrieve his wife from the stronghold of Bishop Amoussou.
“I am handing everything to God. I have already discussed with CAN
to try and plead with David Amoussou to remove the spell he has cast
on my wife so that my wife can return home to take care of the three
children. I have talked to many high Bishops. I have talked to Uma
Ukpai as well as many others to help me talk to David Amoussou to
leave my wife alone.” Benson also said he was considering taking a
legal action if all other methods fail.
But reacting to the allegation:
The woman at the centre of the storm, Mrs Esther Ndifreke Benson,
said she is no longer married to Benson because he has been
accusing her of infidelity even when he does not have money to take
care of the family as a man. She vowed to go ahead and marry
Bishop Amoussou if Benson does not stop looking for her.
According to her: “The man, Ndifreke Benson, who came to you was
my husband, he is no more my husband. What really happened is
that, we got married in the year 2000; everything was going well and
before he met me, I am a Christian. We went to church together; I
embraced him because we were from the same place. But it is not
everything, because the Bible says that we wrestle not against flesh
and blood but against principalities and powers, against spiritual
wickedness in high places. It is not everything that I saw through my
marital life that I complained to anybody because it is for better, for
worse.
“I have passed through all kinds of things which I cannot just start
saying now but the one that pained me most was on the 7th of
October this year. He doesn’t go to church. He has been accusing me
of being impregnated by one pastor Enono of Life Builders Assembly,
Uyo.
“I don’t really know what happened because I was a nursing mother
then. They went to the police station then and I was called to testify.
You understand what I am trying to say. Is it a crime for me to
worship God? Is it a crime for me to go close to men of God? Or is it
a crime to worship God. I thought that he should be happy that I am
worshipping God. But at the end, what he will say is that I am
sleeping with these men of God.
“I endured it and never told my people what I was passing through.
The only person who knew what happened was my younger sister. It
is not just something that you will start telling people; that you are
being accused of adultery. I kept quiet. My mother was married till
death did them part and I had to stay in my marital home, which I
did. A lot of things happened, but I endured.”
She said it is the threat to her life that made her abandon the
marriage. “The only one that pained me most was on October 7, he
started beating me. If not by God’s grace, I would have been a dead
person by now. He started beating me that I was going out with one
Amoussou. That in fact, the man charmed me, that the man has been
using magical oil.
“Okay, I am going out with this man of God as you said, why not
release me to go, but you just wanted to kill me . He strangled me and
would have killed me if not for the knock on the door by my
neighbour? My neighbour knocked and he thought that it was the
landlord, he left me. At this stage, this is no more spiritual, I am
above it because I know that he that is in me is greater than he that
is in the world. But by strangling me, I was afraid.
“So what happened was that I used wisdom; I did as if I had settled
with him. He took me to work, I left. I had to run for my dear life. I
went to the office and took permission to go on leave, because I have
seen as they say death is not far. So I decided to leave, I left
everything I had toiled and labored for. What he is thinking that is
maybe I am going out with the pastor, but if he should tempt me,
even though I don’t want to marry again, if he tempts me, I will go on
and marry that man and he can’t do anything."
When contacted on all his three GSM lines, the man at the centre of
the storm, Bishop Amousou refused to pick his calls.