Why I sent Stephanie Packing’ – Rev Chris Okotie

                                       

 Since ending his four year marriage to Stephanie Henshaw in June this year, Pastor Chris Okotie has never really opened up about what led to his decision to end his marriage. There has been a lot of speculations in the media and he finally decided to react to some of it. He gave an exclusive interview to City People magazine through a minister in his church, Rev Grace Funmi Paul, a member of House Hold of God for the past 25 years. It’s a long interview but I’m just going to pick some parts I think might interest you all. See it below…

 

Rev Grace Paul: A blind person knows that my pastor loved his wife, Stephanie, passionately. This year before the separation, he had taken her out of the country at least three times to different places like Dubai, US and so on. He loved her, so did the congregation but the bible says that two cannot walk together except they agree. In the establishment of the kingdom of God, the rules change because the rules are made by God and not by man. So, it didn’t have to do with what pastor wanted to do, because left to him, his love will keep him struggling and going at it but if God gives him instruction he has to follow it through.

More when you continue…

City People: If I get you correctly, it was Jesus instructions for Pastor Chris to part ways with Stephanie?
Rev Grace: Let me give you a precedent. In the bible, there’s a queen called Queen Vershti of Persia. The king invited his wife and said – come woman, I want to show you off to my people and the woman had an attitude. She had pride issues. It was at that point she said to the king “Excuse me, I am making up, how can you be humiliating me by telling me to come and sit down so that people can be looking at me.” So she refused and the people of the kingdom rose up against her, and they said the king must let her go, and that was how Esther came in. That is the principle of The Kingdom. In the two cases of my pastor’s former wives, it was an abdication of roles. One was a physical abdication, and the other was a spiritual abdication. In the matters of the Kingdom of God, when you abdicate your position, your position will be taken over, because the calling my pastor has, he is not called to work alone (Linda says – get ready for another pastor Okotie wedding hehe)

CP: In Stephanie’s case, was it a case of spiritual or physical abdication?
Rev Grace: Her case was spiritual abdication, but either ways it amounts to the same thing, because the scripture states clearly that if unbelieving departs, let him depart, you are not bound.

CP: Any efforts to patch things up?
Rev Grace: Spiritual things can not be patched up. When there are two people who are not the same kind, it is not a matter of patching up.

CP: So is the congregation happy that the pastor is single again and is there any plans to replace Stephanie?
Rev Grace: The congregation is not in the position to replace Stephanie. My pastor is a full grown man, and he knows what he’s doing. In the case of our pastor’s first wife, she insisted that where she wanted to do her church work was in the US. As for Stephanie, I cannot be intruding. As much as I am authorised to do what I am doing, I can’t disrespect my pastor and Stephanie. If I begin to give you some details, they would amount to disrespect. My pastor has insisted that they want to keep it private.

CP: Pastor Chris once said that the instruction to marry Stephanie was from God
Rev Grace: If you know my pastor, he is a passionate person. They had a long time relationship before they got married. My pastor is particularly careful about beautiful women because he knows that the devil desires them. So when a beautiful woman has issues in church, he ministers to them, and because he does that, people jump to the conclusion that he sleeps with them, which is not true. Just like Queen Ure, pastor has never had an affair with her, will never have an affair with her because they are not of the same kind (Linda says – What does ‘not of the same kind’ mean?). Ure was pastoring her own church, until she became bored.”

Tonto Dikeh Is Not My Kind Of Girl–kas. Launches Album October 1

 

  In 2011, Tonto Dikeh announced that she was in the studio with top music artiste and producer, Kas of Kas Beats.

At the album launch of the artiste in November 2011, Tonto was physically present at the event to support Kas.

Soon after, there were rumour that both entertainers were dating. Though the rumour didn’t last, but some believed they must have ‘crossed’ each other.

While a guest on an Eko FM radio programme on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, Kas disclosed that he never at any time dated the controversial actress.
He told the show presenter that Tonto is not his kind of girl just as he is also not the kind of guy for the pretty Petro-Chemical graduate of Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUTH). He also stated that the two of them are just friends and nothing more.

Meanwhile, Kas is now set to launch his album come October 1, 2012. The album is titled ‘@IAMKASBEATS’. It would be the second album the singer is launching in 12 months.

 

News8 Years Old Bathed Housemaid With Hot Water For Not Making Indomie On Time

 

                                          

Onlookers were held with shock and disbelief on Friday, September 7 at Iyaganku Police Division when an eight-year-old girl, Ewaoluwa (surname withheld), was brought to the station for changing the looks of her mother’s housemaid when she allegedly bathed the Togolese girl with hot water for not responding to her call that she needed to eat Indomie in time.

In a case that was said to have been reported on that Friday by a member of  Child’s Protection Network, (a non-governmental organisation), Pastor Marcus William, the eight-year-old girl had allegedly poured  hot water on the head, neck and back side of the 14-year-old housemaid, whose name was given as Mary Komule, on September 5 for not answering her in time when she asked Mary to make her Indomie.
 
Acting on this information, policemen and women attached to the Juvenile Welfare section of Iyaganku went to the girl’s parents’ house at Olaniran Fagbemi Street, Joyce B area of Ibadan immediately after receiving the information, but was said to have been resisted by the girl’s mother who reportedly told his gateman to tell the police that she was not around.
 
It was further gathered that the police officers spent close to four hours outside the gate and had prepared to obtain a search warrant from a court when the woman’s lawyer came around and persuaded her to follow the law enforcement agents.
 
In her statement to the police at Iyaganku, Ewaoluwa claimed that she wanted to eat Indomie and informed the housemaid, but she was busy cleaning the floor on which palm oil poured. The housemaid, Mary, had reportedly put some water on the fire to further clean the floor when she noticed the floor was still slippery.
 
Angered by the fact that her request was not promptly attended to, the little girl had reportedly ordered Mary to kneel down and put her hands behind her back, after which she tied them with a scarf. She was said to have claimed that she first poured cold water on the housemaid but when she saw that the teenager did not feel any pain, she took the water the maid was boiling on the fire and poured it on the helpless girl, right from the head to the back of her neck.
 
Writhing in pain, Mary had reportedly robbed the scalded skin with her hands, resulting in the skin peeling off. Though the girl’s mother was said to be away in Lagos when the incident occurred, Ewaoluwa, when asked whether she was punished for her misdeeds, told the police that her mother scolded her by asking her to ‘face the wall’.
 
The mother of the girl who was crying profusely as the crowd booed her and her daughter told the police that she took Mary to a nearby chemist for treatment when she returned from her journey and was informed of the occurrence.  She also said that the girl had been with her for about six moths, adding that she didn’t want to come out to the police initially because she was scared.
 
 However, the housemaid countered her, saying that she was not taken anywhere for treatment and had been in pain until the time of her rescue. Her burns were only dabbed with Gentian Violet when Crime Features saw the girl at the police station. When asked why she didn’t resist the abuse on her, Mary said her mistress had strictly warned her not to touch the girl on any account.
 
Sources living around the home of the girl’s parents told Crime Features that the housemaid had once attempted to run away  but was held back by people. Since then, they said, she had been under close monitoring by her mistress. The gateman of the house also told the police that he had only worked with the family for nine days before the incident but had never seen the girl outside until that day.
 
Confirming the story, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr Clement Adoda said that the housemaid had been handed over to the Ministry of Women Affairs in Oyo State while the NAPTIP had also been contacted so that proper repatriation of the girl back to her country could be effected. Mr Adoda added that the little suspect and her mother had been granted bail while the case would be charged to court after the resumption of the legal year

Kourtney Kardashian Gives Birth On National Tv, Pulls Baby Out With Her Own Hands — Again!

Kourtney Kardashian did it again! For the second time, the reality star gave birth and pulled the baby out all by herself — making her labor seem both incredibly easy and incredibly bizarre.