53-year-old pastor from Nigeria who impregnated
more than 20 members of his congregation,
including several married women and young girls,
claiming that the Holy Spirit told him to have sex
with them has been arrested for sexual abuse.
Ebere Amaraizu, DSP, a spokesman for the
Enugu State Police Command told NaiJ that
general overseer of Vineyard Ministry of the Holy
Trinity, Pastor Timothy Ngwu, was arrested for
abusing his female members.“The pastor claims
to be obeying prophetic/spiritual injunction to do
the will of God, which is to impregnate any one
chosen and revealed by the Holy Spirit,
irrespective of whether the woman is married or
not,” said Amaraizu.
“When the woman is delivered of the baby, the
child remains in the ministry with the mother for
life,” he added.
According to a Vanguard report, Ngwu was
reported to the police by his estranged wife,
Veronica Ngwu, who got tired of his lascivious
behavior after he impregnated her young niece.
A brother of the pastor, who did not want to be
identified, told Vanguard that he had been
warning Ngwu and his family about his behavior
for a long time but he refused to listen. The
arrest, he said, was God’s wrath falling on his
brother.
“Let me tell you, God’s anger has befallen my
brother, we have severally appealed to him to
stop what he was doing but he refused. He has
colonized our compound, bearing children with
recklessness. He accused us of being jealous of
him because he is doing the will of God,” the
brother told Vanguard.
“Look at these buildings here,” he said pointing
to the church compound. “He (pastor) has
converted all of them to himself in the name of
vineyard. I can’t say exactly what informed his
spirit to the devilish act in the name of God. He
sacked his betrothed wife who has three children
for him and embarked on impregnating married
women and young girls. Look at the whole
compound littered with children of different sex
and age,” he lamented.
“How can an educated man of his status reason
like an unrefined man? All members of the
vineyard are fools, how can a woman abandon
her husband for another man in the name of
worshiping God and practice adultery? I cannot
get myself involved in this matter; Vero has
opened the vessel of worms in the vineyard. Let
them sort themselves out with the police but I
want the ministry to be shut down completely,”
he added.
Ngwu told NaiJ that he has approximately five
wives with 13 children along with concubines he
acquired by the prophetic will of God.