Bishop on the Niger, Anglican Diocese, Rt. Rev. Owen Nwokolo, has sacked a priest of the diocese, Rev. Canon Sylvester LumenKristi Eboh over acts of insubordination.
Eboh had earlier this week said that some forces in the church were after his life, and had also taken away his wife from him.
He also said he had resigned as a priest in the diocese, and would henceforth concentrate on running his private ministry, God in Action Adoration Ministry, Ogidi.
But the Bishop on the Niger, Rt. Rev. Nwokolo who briefed journalists in Awka through the Deputy Chancellor Diocese on the Niger, Barr. Ben Uzuegbu (SAN) said the priest never resigned, but has been sacked.
Uzuegbu said: “There have been a series of complaints against the priest for a very long time, and all attempts by the Bishop to bring him to answer to allegations against him have been ignored.
“This is a priest who went out of the church’s way to register a separate religious group, without the knowledge of the church.
“The Bishop is the father of all priests in the diocese, and despite all the complaints against this priest, attempts to bring him before the Bishop has been rebuffed.
“We should not have come to the media with this, but since he has already brought the matter before the media, we feel we should call you all to tell you the true story.
“Sylvester LumenKristi Eboh has been using his religious group to make a lot of money from unsuspecting members of the church, which he, in turn, lavishes on women and a lifestyle of pleasure.
“There is still a complaint against him by a lawyer in Awka here that he made love severally to a certain member of the church and put her in the family way.
“His wife (priest’s) is presently not living with him because of that lifestyle. The wife complained severally to the church that her husband brought in a strange woman as his secretary, with who he later started sleeping with. He is known to have severally beat up the wife in front of this strange woman. When she couldn’t bear it any longer, she had to leave him.”
Uzuegbu said Eboh’s license has been withdrawn, and he seizes to be a priest of the church, while also warning members of the church to beware of him, accusing him of being deep into voodooism.
