Worshippers at St Dominic’s Catholic
Church, Adazi Enu, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State were
shocked on Friday when a US-based Catholic priest, Rev. Father Mike
Steve Ezeatu, descended on a 70-year-old man and beat him blue black.
According to source, a Parishioners explained
that the priest had finished celebrating a....
funeral mass and was about
entering his SUV when he sighted the old man identified as Innocent
Nwolisa and beckoned on him to come closer.
Obeying the call, Nwolisa approached the
cleric, who descended on him, accusing the old man of charming him
while he was celebrating mass on the pulpit.
Narrating the story, the first son of
the victim, Ebuka Nwolisa, said his father was about to leave the
compound of Ifedigbo in Ugweni Ojii, where the funeral mass of one late
Ifeoma Ifedigbo, had just been celebrated by Ezeatu, when he was called
back by the priest
“I think my father went because we are
related to the priest and they know each other. My father thought the
priest might be calling him to give him special blessing, but what he
got was a beating.
“The only saving grace he (reverend
father) had was that I was not around; that was why he got way with his
action,” an angry Ebuka explained.
According to Arinze and Olisa Ezeatu, both younger
and elder brothers of the priest, maintained that it was not true that
Nwolisa was releasing evil powers on him, but that the reverend father
was suspecting that the old man may have supported his brothers, whom
the priest has for long been at loggerheads with over land.
According to them, “The priest is our
brother, but he is more like a curse to us than a blessing. He is based
in the US, and can be described as a businessman than a clergy. Because
he has money, he has grabbed all our land and we have been in dispute
with him.
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