Man storms church with machete to reclaim wife

From Michael Ndi with field reports 
 

An irate man whose name we obtained as Ngafih recently stormed a local pentecostal church in Ndu, disrupting service and threatening to raise hell if his wife was not released to him. Ngafih who marched into the World Wide Evangelism (WWE) church at Nsankfe accused the church’s pastor of attempting to split his family.

According to family members, Ngafih had earlier warned his wife against the WWE church which he said had transformed the woman into a very disrespectful housewife. The wife, he was quoted as saying, had virtually abandoned her household chores and spending most of the time (night and day) in the church premises.

Meantime, the visibly-frightened woman left the church that fateful day for her parent’s home; insisting never to go back to her matrimonial home if she was not allowed to continue worshiping with the World Wide Evangelism church.

When contacted, a cross-section of Ndu inhabitants pointed out that since the World Wide Evangelism church opened its doors in the area, several homes have been broken because some women no longer respect their husbands nor perform their matrimonial duties, as they spend all days and night in the church.

Besides, the residents complained that the church is an unbearable nuisance in the locality because of constant shouting and weeping. It was apparently on this premise that the church was chased away from its former site at Boyar-Ndu before it re-located to Nsankfe.

The Guardian Post gathered that Pastor Julius of the World Wide Evangelism church started gaining popularity when he organized a crusade at the Ndu grand stand and several people collapsed in the name of falling under the anointing.

Much earlier, a sub chief of Ndu had destroyed a ‘juju’ shrine in his palace on grounds that he had given his life to Christ.

Before now, the religion-minded population of Ndu was accustomed only to the Presbeterian, Baptist and Catholic faiths as well as Islam. But of recent, the sub division has continued to witness unprecedented influx of pentecostal churches fondly called, “prosperity churches”. Most of them are introduced in Ndu and other parts of the North West region by Cameroonians who have lived in Nigeria.