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A 60 years old pastor with the revered Assemblies Church of God in Nigeria, Reverend Chukwuemeka Orji has been expelled by the church board of elders for allegedly defiling a domestic staff of his who is said to be 13-year-old in Aba, Abia State.
Reverend Chukwuemeka Orji was arraigned at a Magistrate Court which
sat in Aba South Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday and remanded
with a bail condition to the Abia State Correctional Centre pending the
determination of his cases.
Spokesperson
of the Abia State Police Command, ASP Chinaka Maureen, who confirmed Orji’s
arrest, said an investigation into the case was ongoing, but the Aba District
Superintendent of Assemblies of God Church, Rev. Dr. Don Njoku, said Orji had
been sanctioned and expelled from the ministry.
Rev.
Dr. Don Njoku’s message on the matter reads, “Assemblies of God Church is a
holiness organisation; we don’t support promiscuity of any kind. What our pastor
did is what we preach against; consequently, even if the announcement is not
made official yet, he knows he has been sanctioned”.
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Continuing, he said, “He knows that in our constitution, anybody that does such a thing is expelled from the church and we will be going to his church on Sunday to tell the members to put an official approach to it and to tell them to cheer up and continue in the race because when a soldier is hit by a bullet, it does not make other soldiers to shrink, they continue but all they will need to do is to guard themselves more, knowing that in battle, people fall and people die.
“So,
obviously Rev. Chukwuemeka Orji is suspended and disfellowshipped from the
ministry. Even if the government doesn’t do anything to him, this is what we do
when our member does a thing such as that because what he did is what we
prohibit, what the Bible prohibits and what we speak and stand against.”
As
earlier reported, Orji, who took the victim from her family members with a
promise to sponsor her education, had allegedly been having carnal knowledge of
the minor since she was 12 years old.
In a
bid to silence the victim, the cleric allegedly threatened to stop sponsoring
her education and send her back to her family members if she informed anyone
about the illicit acts.
Narrating
her ordeal in the hands of the pastor, the minor said when she started leaving
with Orji, he regularly made s3xual advances to her which she refused.
She,
however, noted that things took another turn when the pastor allegedly
forcefully had carnal knowledge of her sometime in 2022, adding that afterwards,
it became a regular act
Orji
reportedly ran out of luck on Thursday, June 15, 2023, when he allegedly
attempted to have his way around the minor but discovered that she was on her
period. He was said to have allegedly forced her to perform oral s3x on him.
“The victim who could no longer bear the action of the pastor
reported him to her class teacher when she got to school. The teacher notified
the proprietor of the school and the proprietor alerted the Executive Director
of Vivacious Development Initiative, Lady Nwosu, who informed a colleague,
Chuka Okoye, after which the police were contacted and the pastor was arrested.” “Unsatisfied by
her performance, he sent her to cut grass at a farm within the church premises
as a punishment for being on her period before she was allowed to go to
school,”


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