An anonymous Nigerian who recently worshiped at Bishop Oyedepo’s Winners Chapel has narrated her encounter at the Church.
The writer in a post on the Ambassador Belle blog claimed
she got the ‘F’ word from a Winners Chapel Church pastor and decided to
share her story of assault and inappropriate use of word by a pastor of
the church.
Read story below:
Let me start from the very beginning. My family moved house towards
the middle of last year, the new place we moved to has a branch of
winners chapel at the end of the close. Bearing in mind that it is a
residential area, the church was advised to use the exit at their own
end, and leave the other exit for the residents of the close.
But no, they refused. Our own end of the street had a gate, but when
we moved in (as we were the first to do so) we decided to change the
street gate to a better one, and that was when all the problems started.
When we pulled down the gate, we built a gate-man house, and when we
were about to install the gate, the church members and pastors came and
beat up our workers, destroyed the gate and also beat up one of our
neighbors that is still building his house.
We wanted to take the case to the authorities then, but some people
pleaded and asked us to dialogue with the church and that since we are
all Christians, we should settle amicably.
We tried negotiating with them but they refused to reach an agreement, and they are always very troublesome.
The straw that broke the Camel’s back was the incident that happened
on Monday when I was driving back home with my mum and sister.
They had just finished a church service and the whole place was
blocked, I managed to navigate to the entrance of the street only to
find a long line of cars filing out from their church.
Now the street is narrow, and there are a lot of constructions going
on, building materials have covered one end of the road so it’s now a
one-way access.
I was at the entrance, I flashed the car coming from the other end
with my headlight, kept on flashing as I was driving in but no, he
refused to stop (maybe it was because he saw a lady driving).
We got to a point where no one could drive any further, and then he
asked me to go back! Imagine the nonsense!!! I just switched off the
engine and relaxed, I refused to move.
The church people came and asked me to reverse I didn’t even answer
them. Then one lady came to beg my mum and they agreed that the cars
that were before our gate would pass and that the ones after my gate
would wait for me to drive in before they continue their journey. My mum
told me and I moved back.
Then all of a sudden, the four cars before my gate passed through, and then the remaining cars behind started zooming out!!!!
As in!!! I was furious. I blocked the road again. We then insisted
that all the cars should move back to let us pass or else we would leave
our car there and go inside our house.
That was when the congregation of touts and hooligans headed by their
pastors and deacons came out like locusts to lynch us. The started
abusing us and hitting our car.
We tried to resist the temptation but we couldn’t, My sisters and I
started giving them a public wash-down, my voice cracked that evening,
lol.
Then the deacon told me I was disrespectful, I replied and told him
that if he could let his church members insult me and my mum then why
should I respect him? and that respect was reciprocal the deacon was
banging on our car and told his church people to push it off the road. I
challenged him and that was when he told me fuck you.
I was amazed, I then said he should be ashamed of himself for
swearing at me with the same mouth he will still use to pray for his
church, he swore at me again.
He even wanted to hit me with a plank. We saw wonders that night.
Then today (Wednesday) we decided to try installing our street gate
again, and guess who showed up?! The same vultures from the church. They
harassed our contractor, uprooted the pillars the workers put up to
mount the gate, seized them and put them in their church premises.
They then bribed the police and arrested our contractor whom we had to go bail this evening.
The church people denied that they harassed us, denied that we
approached them before to negotiate, denied that they insulted my mum,
my sister and I some days back, denied that they dented our car, they
even told us that the church owns the whole road.
These are the same people that barricade their own end at night and
leave our end open, yet they wont let u put back our gate. They search
their parishioners only at their barricade but let them roam free on our
side. They don’t even allow us or other people access the other exit by
their church, but they want to use our own exit.
Is this a church? or an occultic gathering?
It pains me that I wasn’t able to video them the night they attacked
us, but I have the video of them uprooting out gate pillars and
harassing our contractor.
I also have the emails we have sent to cannan land which they have not bothered to reply.