A man named Victor Ojiaku has been arrested by the Nigerian police for allegedly beating his wife mercilessly and then stabbing her in her private part with a broken bottle after accusing her of sleeping with sleeping with a teenage boy who works for him.
Ojiaku, an automobile parts dealer, attacked his wife, Faith Ojiaku, 27, a mother of three at their home in White Sand, Isheri-Osun in Lagos State last week. LIB has photos of the stabbed vagina but probably not appropriate to post here
Faith was kept locked up for two days by Victor, making it impossible for her to call any family member or friend for help or seeking medical attention.
When she was eventually allowed to seek medical attention, she used a doctor’s phone to call her sister who the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, who have since taken up the case.
The man appeared at the Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court last week where he was granted bail and case postponed till end of January. He is also faing charges for attacking his teenage worker who he accused of sleeping with his wife.
He is facing a six-count charge bordering on grievous bodily harm, threat to life and assault.
A 42-year-old woman, Omolade Omoniyi, who is now late, has revealed in a video released by her family how she believed the house of her husband, a pastor with the Christ Apostolic Church, Onigbogbo, Atan Ota, Ogun State, Pastor Olusegun Omoniyi, was bewitched, making her sick till she died.
Omolade: Healthy (l) and days before her death (r)
The release of the video is coming more than 10 months after she died following what her family termed “mysterious attacks” which had forced her to flee her matrimonial home.
The deceased woman’s family told Saturday PUNCH that the video, which is one of many that were recorded few days before Omolade died, was shot in order to get her personal accounts on record.
“Please for God’s sake, don’t let me die. Take me to wherever you know I will get help. I have been calling you (her husband), but you ignored my calls. Everybody help me to beg him. I have taken three pints of blood, but I excreted them all away. Help me, I don’t want to die,” she said in one part of the video.
She reportedly died the following day after that particular video.
The video clip, which also captured the final moments of Omolade on the sick bed at the Safeway Hospital, Sango, where she was receiving treatment, showed the 42-year-old begging her husband for a solution to her predicament.
The PUNCH had reported how Olusegun lamented that he was abducted from church by some OPC members, who were allegedly hired by members of his wife’s family.
He had said after being tortured and blindfolded, he was taken to a hideout where his estranged wife was being treated for a strange illness he claimed struck her seven months after she left their matrimonial home.
The cleric said he was made to clean his wife’s faeces on the hospital bed and beaten until the police came to his rescue.
He also alleged that a day after his wife died, he was attacked again and forced to sleep on the corpse.
Olusegun had told our correspondent that his late wife separated from him and took away all her property over their childlessness despite being married for 16 years.
He also accused his wife’s family of being the brains behind the trouble in their union.
The late wife’s family had declined comment at the time, but last week Saturday, during a chat with our correspondent, Omolade’s family showed our correspondent few recorded interview sessions they had with her before her demise.
Responding to a question on why she left her matrimonial home, Omolade explained that she was a proprietress of a school in the Alaba area, where she stayed from Monday to Friday to ease transport cost.
She said she always returned home for the weekend.
She said, “I, however, observed that anytime I go home for weekend, I get sick. The sickness would continue till Monday when I have to leave for work. Once I step out of the house for work, I would be relieved. This had happened many times.
“On a particular weekend that I was supposed to return home, I decided to stay back at school and see if I would fall sick again. Surprisingly, nothing happened to me.
“I then called my husband’s attention to it. I begged him that he should find a solution to the problem, but he said he was praying for me and all would be well. At another time, he dismissed it and said I was lying.”
Omolade said few weeks later, her husband called and apologised to her for not caring about her health, promising to change.
She explained that the following week Friday, she was returning from work when she felt a sharp pain in the neck as she approached home.
“By Saturday morning, my condition had become worse and I could not eat. On Sunday morning, when some people brought church’s instruments, I suddenly collapsed. I was revived and I put myself together, wore my clothes and entered the church so that our members would not be wondering why I didn’t attend Sunday service.
“After the service, I went on a visit to a church elder’s wife. As soon as I got to their house, I became relieved,” she added.
The deceased said in the video that the church elder’s wife queried her for moving her things from the house, saying Olusegun reported her to the family.
She denied packing out of the house, saying she always took the plates and clothes she would use during her stay at the school.
“Why will I divorce my husband after all our struggles together to the point of building our own house and after all my contributions? I told her the only issue we had was my husband’s uncaring attitude, especially when I became sick. He would sometime say I was lying. Whereas, if he was the one that was sick, I could kill myself over his health.
“There was a time he was sick and things were hard for us. I had to go under the bridge at Sango to beg people for money, just to raise money for his medications. But in my case, he never cared about me and this was what happened when we lost two children in a single day,” she added.
She said after another attack on a Friday, a friend at her school advised her to leave the house for the meantime.
Omolade said she left the house with a lump in her breast, which she developed after another attack.
She said after leaving the house for the school, her husband started shunning her calls and at a point, stopped taking the calls, querying her for leaving the house.
The last moment of Omolade captured in another clip, showed her appealing to her husband in the presence of some family members, friends and a doctor.
Olusegun had been “forced” into the hospital to see his wife on the day.
Pastor Stephen Oyesola, the younger brother of the deceased, who forced Olusegun to the hospital, denied hiring OPC members.
He said, “Nobody kidnapped or abducted him. On January 7, we invited him to come and see his wife, but he refused. On February 4, the supreme council of CAC and top CAC elders at Ibadan mediated and asked him to take care of the sick woman so that she would not die. He also refused.
“I was later called to donate blood for my sister, which I did. But she excreted it. She was in pain and was crying that she wanted to see her husband.
“A brother, two friends and myself, went to bring him from the house. We never used any OPC member and we never beat or tortured him. By this time, my sister’s stomach, legs and hands were swollen. The police later came in to take him away. My sister died 12am the following day.”
Stephen added that during the plan for his sister’s burial, the family was surprised when Olusegun’s insisted she would not be buried on the land they alleged co-owned.
He said after much argument, the pastor agreed after saying she contributed only N50,000 to the land.
“We were in a vehicle en route to the place at Atan Ota, when he started making a fake call for people to dig the grave. We had not gone far when the police came again and removed him from our midst. We had to abort the burial plan because it was already late,” he added.
He said the corpse was later deposited in a mortuary and buried at the Itele cemetery the following day.
The eldest brother of the deceased, Pastor Amos Oyesola, lamented that he made many efforts to reconcile the couple, saying Olusegun rebuffed all of them.
He also denied that the family encouraged the separation between the couple.
Amos also said nobody gave the family any money for the treatment of the deceased before she gave up.
“And how can he say we tortured him? If he was indeed beaten and tortured a day to the death of his wife, how would he be able to come for the burial planning? He used the police to arrest one of those treating his wife, but when we got there and explained to them, they understood it was a family affair,” he added.
When our correspondent reached out to Olusegun on the video concerning his late wife, he denied that she was ever sick in his house.
He said, “My wife was never sick in my house. Actually, for the past three years, she had a painless lump on her breast. She was fine and did all her normal work. I, however, suggested to her to go to the hospital concerning the lump so it could be removed, but she said since it was not paining her, I should leave it. I also called one of her relatives in Owo, who said I was being heartless for wanting them to remove the lump, which had been there for three years. I then stopped talking about it.
“I had gone for a pastors’ conference when she brought some of her relatives to the house. They broke down the door and took away all her property. She later told me her relatives advised her to abandon me over our childlessness.
“I was not the one that was not reachable on the phone, it was she. At a point, nobody even knew her location. When I was called that she was sick, I was surprised and couldn’t believe it.”
Olusegun, who insisted that he was tortured by his wife’s relatives until he was rescued by the police, showed copies of his medical report.
A report from the General Hospital, Sango-Ota, issued on February 8, 2016 by one Dr. Oyejoko S.A., said, “Case of gang beating and blunt injuries.”
The outpatient card read, “Was beaten thoroughly by a group of people. He sustained multiple injuries.”
Hosea Stubblefield, a 32-year-old recently divorced Baptist pastor from Houston, Texas, with a fetish for making sex tapes is refusing demands from members of his congregation to step down after he was outed for making sex tapes with multiple women, some allegedly from his church and during his failed marriage.
Pastor Hosea Stubblefield, 32, of Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, admits to making sex tapes of himself and multiple women. (Inset) One of Stubblefield's ex-lovers who outed his behavior online after discovering his stash of sex tapes.
Stubblefield who leads the Salem Missionary Baptist Church and is named after the Old Testament prophet Hosea who God commanded to marry a prostitute named Gomer, was forced to confess his behavior to his congregation after clips from some of the tapes he made were posted on a blog by a woman identified as B. Coll who claims they had a relationship that she ended after he asked her to make a sex tape with him for the last time in September.
"After his last request for a sex tape on September 25th, 2016, I chose to end everything with him and again he threw a tantrum and went on a delete and block spree," wrote B. Coll.
"He again became dismissive because I refused to make a sex tape with him. I wanted to question him on why he would even want to make a sex tape and he's in the position that he's in, but that would be like the pot calling the kettle black, right? I later learned he was making sex tapes the ENTIRE time we had reconnected," the woman explained.
The woman has since removed a number of the clips that were posted online.
Reporters with Fox 26 said: "We've actually seen the video and verified it is Stubblefield with members of the congregation, but the video is too explicit to show."
In an interview with Fox 26, Stubblefield, who became pastor of Salem Missionary Baptist Church last summer, admitted that he made between five and 10 sex tapes over a 10-year period and made his last one just two years ago.
The woman who outed him online, however, disputes his claim. She gave the impression that she saw many more than just 10 videos during her time with him and saw one dated as recently as November 2015, about five months, she said, after his divorce with his wife was finalized.
"After coming across all of this information, I was beyond shocked. Sick to my stomach. And embarrassed. Here I am thinking I'm the only woman he's dealing with in a physical capacity and how dumb of me to believe that! Not only is he putting the lives of these women at risk, because there are tonsssss more, but he uses his position of power as a pastor to do these things," B. Coll wrote.
"He gets up on Sundays and preach against EVERY sin he's committing in these videos. He is leading his congregation straight to Hell and they don't even know it. He's too arrogant to resign. I'm sure he will put on a show the next few Sundays, tears, repentance, and pure denial of his actions and the time-frame in which they occurred. I'm sure, as the pathological liar he is, he will find a way to spin these truths into him being the victim. Because he's a subconscious misogynistic narcissist, I can almost bet you he'll claim he's being blackmailed because someone wants to be with him," she noted.
Stubblefield, who told Fox 26 that he has been a preacher for more than 12 years and made the sex tapes while he was ministering, claims that none of them were made during his time as pastor of Salem Missionary Baptist Church.
He apologized for his behavior and called the tapes "a mistake."
"I would tell anybody, again, I am not saying it was right, I do apologize about it; however, it was a mistake that was made in my past," he said.
Craig Davis, the head deacon and trustee at the church whose daughter Stubblefield dated, told Fox 26 that he wants him gone from the church and told him to leave earlier this month.
"Disgusting, I trusted and believed. I had been working with him for over a year before he became our pastor," Davis said. "I was sitting in different pastor sermons and it was just disgusting knowing I was betrayed."
Stubble, however, is not backing down and said since the tapes were made public he has been getting a lot of support from across the country. The family that blew the whistle on the sex tapes to the congregation, he said, has already been kicked out of the church and he is pursuing criminal charges against the person who stole the videos from him.
"They were deleted on a computer and the files were recovered and kept against my knowledge for seven months to basically use against me," he told Fox 26.
Stubblefield, who says making sex tapes is just a "personal preference" for him, also ironically warned others to be careful about their actions.
"Watch what you do today, 'cause it could come back and haunt you tomorrow. Just make sure you are as accountable as you can be for your actions at all times," he said.
Calls made to Salem Missionary Baptist Church on Thursday went unanswered.
Without even waiting for their colleague to have a single day in court, the leadership of the Moravian Church in Jamaica is separating itself from the alleged actions of a veteran clergyman.
According to reports, at about 9 p.m., the police were on patrol in a community near Black River, St Elizabeth, when they observed a parked car that aroused their suspicion. On investigation, the pastor, who is the minister at a Moravian Church in Manchester, was reportedly found in a compromising position with a child.
He was immediately taken into police custody on suspicion of rape and carnal abuse of the girl who turned 15 years old last Friday.
"I have read the allegations, and it is a very sad day, but all I can say is to let the law take its course," The Reverend Dr Paul Gardner, president of the Moravian Church in Jamaica, told The Gleaner yesterday.
"If charged and he is found guilty, the church has no option but dismissal from the church ... there is no two ways about this.
"We take this very seriously, and if these charges are found to be true, we have no other recourse," said Gardner, who is also president of the Unity Board of the Worldwide Moravian Church.
"We never, ever condone such behaviour.
"We have a code of ethics to which all our ministers subscribe, and we also have our own discipline and grievance procedure."
According to Gardner, the senior pastor with 30 years' experience and all of the leadership of the local body are exposed to regular and intense training sessions to deal with, among other issues, maintaining boundaries, healthy relationships, and guarding one's integrity.
"So when something like this happens, it is a slap in the face," he added.
"Since we heard, the morale of the staff is low. It is affecting all the ministers and the church community."
Superintendent of Police Lansford Salmon, divisional commander for St Elizabeth, told The Gleaner that the pastor was still being questioned by investigators but was likely to be charged yesterday evening.
The Gleaner has also learnt that the police have since widened their investigation and are now interviewing relatives of the child.