Police Discover Shrine In Pastor’s House (Page 2)

The Police in Igando Division have discovered a shrine in the bedroom of Godwin Adiele, the pastor of a new generation church in Lagos.

The discovery followed the involvement of the 39-year old pastor in the kidnap of another pastor, Chidi Ebube, and the allegation by his wife, Anthonia Onyinye Adiele, that her husband was a ritualist.

P.M.NEWS gathered that the police acted on the information that he had a shrine in his house which he consults without his members’ knowledge.

When the police raided his house at 1, Bishop Godwin Adiele Crescent, Isheri-Idimu, they found the shrine in his bedroom.

The discovery of the shrine has confirmed the claims of Anthonia, his wife, that her husband was involved in rituals.

Anthonia made the allegation in an affidavit she filed at a Lagos court while seeking divorce from her husband of 11 years. She is now in hiding with her nine-year old son after she escaped from the pastor’s house.

She claimed further that the pastor attempted to use her and their only son, Gospel Ozioma Adiele, for money ritual.

Mrs. Adiele claimed that one day, her husband called her and told her that he had vowed that he would be a billionaire and live in his own house before he clocks 40 years. The pastor is now 39 years old.

“Since then, he had been behaving strangely and as his wife, I have no access to his bedroom which is always shut,” she stated in her affidavit.

Pastor Adiele is currently facing trial at the Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court for alleged kidnapping.

He and Pastor Joseph Atoyebi, 51 of Anointed Word Ministries, Lagos, were alleged to have kidnapped Pastor Chidi Ebube for leaving the church “after knowing too much.”

The victim was abducted on Igando road and imprisoned at Pastor Adiele’s house for three days.

Narrating his ordeal to P.M.NEWS, the victim said he joined the church thinking that the mode of worship and doctrine was in line with the teaching of Jesus Christ, but discovered that the church was into rituals, and he did not like it.

He decided to leave the church quietly but they kidnapped him and compelled him to take an oath not to disclose what he had seen and learnt about the church. He was, however, lucky as he escaped and reported his abduction to the police.