This
story was sent in by Chrys Anyanwu. Please read below...it's quite sad and
horrific...
Delivered severally by God but rather chose to remain bound, the
story of Pastor Mark Chukwudi Etiti of Victory Pentecostal Church Ogbaku in
Mbaitolu L.G.A of Imo State. A secondary school dropout and redeemed
wheelbarrow pusher turned pastor. The story of this self acclaimed man of God
who hails from Agwa in Oguta, LGA of Imo State is one that elicits so many
thoughts about the biblical end time and the rise of so many devil’s incarnate
in the guise of Pastors whose sole aim is to deceive and defraud at every given
opportunity.
The story of Pastor Mark and his
unfortunate wife Perpetua Udoka dates back to February 2000. Udoka who
commenced a bright career in banking in a small town called Ogbaku near Owerri
in Imo State innocently confided in a brother in the church who incidentally
was the leader of the prayer squad of their local church at a time. She
solicited for the face of God concerning her proposals from three suitors who
were seriously asking for her hand in marriage, a medical doctor, a fellow
banker and a public servant. Her genuine intention was for this brother to join
hands with her to seek for God’s intervention to enable
her make the very best of decision. Unknown to her, she had just had a date
with the very devil she’s intending to avoid. Pastor Mark who was supposedly
expected to hear from God for onward transmission to Udoka could not help but
fraudulently take advantage of the situation. In his criminal revelation to
sister Udoka who waited earnestly for the solemn voice of God, he quietly muted
in such a shameless display of authority weeks after that God has changed
everything. “Initially, the banker was the one, but God has seen that marrying
him won’t allow you serve him the way he wants you to and so he changed it.” he
said. Who then is the one? Your curiosity is as high as mine. In his tactical
measure of deceit, summoning the guts and clearing the air to weed off
suspicion, he replied “I’m sure it will be difficult for you to accept, but
certainly God has spoken” I’m the one.
Was it a bitter pill to swallow? Yes it
was. This no doubt instigated a lot of dust. For Udoka’s family, it was a no no
particularly considering pastor Mark’s educational background and social
status. What does the young man do for a living? How does he intend to sustain
a family, How will he cope with the family members and all sort of questions
made the choice process a herculean task for Udoka. But for her, since God has
supposedly spoken, she would be sure she’s making the right choice and to cut
the long story short, her families were convinced. They all came out supported
and fully sponsored the wedding ceremony.
Unknown to Udoka, the biggest
attraction was her lucrative career at the time. Just within a space of twenty
months, a car was bought, a landed property and a shop was paid for all in the
name of the husband Pastor Mark Chukwudi Etiti. Udoka built a house for her
Pastor husband on bank loan. She did a lot both for the husband’s family and
the husband himself on loans including borrowing money on behalf of the husband
to the extent that repayments become a serious challenge and she ultimately
lost the bank job.
It became a pitiable situation better
imagined, after she lost her job. Udoka became a punching bag. On many
occasions, the mother in-law will come all the way from the village to order
Udoka out of the very house she built. Udoka had sustained various degrees of
injuries inflicted on her by the same husband she picked from the gutters. She
was hospitalized severally. The mother in-law had once threatened that it is either
Udoka leaves the son alive or the deceased body will be carted away like nobody
and her threat came to pass after all. Udoka’s thirteen year old daughter had
once reported to the police of how the father had bitten the mum to stupor on
the fear that the mum was dead.
The first brutal cutlass injuries on
Udoka were recorded in 2013. This time, Udoka’s family thought it was indeed
enough. The matter was formally taken to the Criminal Investigation Department
(CID) of the Nigerian Police in Owerri, who documented the evidences, detained
the pastor and later released him. The family has actually concluded plans to
forcefully relocate her and her children after so many refusals from her before
the brutal murder of Udoka by the same man who she gave three beautiful
children. “Is he insane”, the police commissioner asked in bloated anger. “To
the best of my knowledge he’s not” Udoka’s brother replied.
On that faithful day, My mummy in her
usual manner, woke up around 5.00am,got us ready for school, gave us our food,
asked me to take my younger sister to her school and return the key to her in
the church, while she left for our church early morning prayer session. I
finished dressing up and told my daddy who was in his room that I’m off to
school. He asked me to lock the gate to our house from outside and I asked why
and he shouted me down. I did exactly that and returned the key to my mum in
the church. I went back to my mummy’s shop around 1:00pm and could not meet her
in the shop. That was unusual knowing fully well when we usually come back from
school. I called her line and she was not picking. I asked her neighbors and
they said she told them my daddy called her. I then took my siblings along to
the house. On getting to the house, every place looked deserted. We usually
access the house through the kitchen door, but that faithful day, the kitchen
door was locked. I called my dad to ask him if he has seen mummy. He asked me
where we are and I said we are at home and the doors were all locked. Within 2
minutes, daddy appeared. Unusual of daddy, he decided to follow the back door
instead of the usual front kitchen door and asked me to stay outside. I could
not comprehend my father’s body language and I quickly followed him and went
straight to my mum’s room while he made his way to his room. The sight of
flowing blood in mummy’s room got me more frightened and when I shouted blood,
my dad ran straight to the kitchen where my mum’s body was used to block the
kitchen door, the same door my daddy strategically avoided on entering the
compound. I later saw my mum’s phone near the kitchen window with my daddy’s 3
missed calls on the phone. The daughter explained.
“My mother does not owe anybody. My mum
does not have any problem with anybody. My daddy has always been chasing us
about with cutlass all the time. He has severally threatened to kill mummy and
her people won’t do anything. The last time, I thought my mummy was dead when
she was brutally beaten with cutlass by my daddy and blood was gushing like
water. I called my uncle and he was not responding. I then went to police to
report him and he was arrested. Two days before he killed mummy, I saw him from
the bathe room cutting the ceiling of our house. The following morning, I heard
him telling my mother that armed robbers came to the house and that the entered
through the ceiling. He was showing mummy the note he claimed the brought which
read “Pastor Mark be careful, this is to tell you we can come and go”. I told
mummy that I saw dad cutting that place two days back and was not done by any
armed robber. I told mummy we should go to my anti’s place that dad is up to
something but mummy refused. Now look at where she has brought us to. Daddy has
simply fulfilled his wish and God will judge him”. She laments.
Answering to the Imo state Police
Command who has gathered all their evidences and have charge him to court, the
unrepentant pastor murderer insisted that nobody can ever tolerate his kind of
wife. According to him, he said he’s not sure any super man can live with his
wife for the number of years he did.
Pastor Mark who is cooling off in the
prison and waiting for the judgment day is known for machete violence. He
consistently boasted of how he had chopped off somebody’s arm back in his
village for insulting the mother. He severally inflicted cutlass injuries on
the late father’s body and has constantly chased his sister away from the house
with cutlass. Like the proverbial saying that he that kills with cutlass shall
die through the cutlass, will that be Pastor Mark Chukwudi Etiti’s lot. This is
left to the Nigeria Judicial system and the Nigeria Police.
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