According to her, Jesse had reached out to her to support him with the payment of church lease to prevent eviction.

SaharaReporters had on January 3 reported that Edeh, who is also a member of the church established by Apostle Johnson Suleman, was brutalised by the pastor who she had actually agreed to support and had actually taken a loan from her bank for the function.

It had actually also been reported that Pastor Jesse assured to pay back the loan but declined after a number of years.

According to her, anytime she asked for a payment, the pastor would start threatening and blackmailing to deal with her.

SaharaReporters found out that Edeh visited the church on Sunday, January 2 in a quote to clear the air on issues surrounding the loans.

Rather than a serene resolution as she had envisaged, problem appeared as members of the church supposedly beat her, her kid and the father of her kids.

She stated she was beaten to an extent that she lost a great deal of blood however for the intervention of the cops.

In an interview, Edeh stated, “I reside in Austria in Vienna city. On Sunday 2nd January, I had actually prepared to go to my church so I chose to go to Omega Fire Ministries where I utilized to participate in. I just recently stopped, to talk with members and the pastor concerning the loans I lent him which they used to pay the lease for the church. I wanted to talk to everybody so we could just have a contract concerning it.

“I got there with my 3 kids. I got to the church, we were at the altar in fact dancing, they finished and the pastor stated someone must give me the microphone; as I will talk, the problem started.

“I was simply waving my hand and stating ‘praise the Lord’ when the dad of my kids withstood make a lady and a video kicked his phone off his hands and all of an unexpected, they started kicking him and the pastor actually made a declaration with the microphone informing them, ‘beat Solomon, take him away from here’.

“I walked down to where the wife was standing and told her they need to stop this, this is not why we came, I simply came to talk to them. There’s been a lot of blackmails, problems talks that have actually been going on worrying me.

“I likewise heard from some people I know from Auchi. Three weeks earlier, the pastor made some videos and said some things that were not right and this is a church that I’ve been to for six years and I have pals there, despite the fact that I’ve not been there for 2 months now.

“In October 2021 when I informed him they had to pay the cash as agreed since 2019, he created a lot of text messages and voice notes threatening me. I felt it was much better I speak up and bring clearness to the problem.

“This is not the first time he assaulted me for requesting for the cash, early in 2015, I felt I could not remain in the church any longer so I notified him and his better half that I was going to be leaving, I chose to make it main because I worked with him. I also would like to know every other arrangement on payment since I do not think I ‘d come back again.

When asked if she had any piece of proof to reveal that the pastor was really owing her, she said, “When the money concern came, as quickly as I went to collect it, I simply went to his office and provided him cash at hand however he never denied the fact that he’s owing me since the church is really paying 180 Euros into my account every so often, that’s the only proof I have.”

Narrating even more how the January 2 occasion took place, Edeh specified: “The pounding started with the pastor since I was waiting him, someone currently began beating the father of my children, so I went towards that side, he was also there and I told him to inform them to stop and then someone pressed me to him.

“It was like me resting myself on him since of the push from behind and after that he right away struck me and began beating me up, the church members also signed up with, I felt a lot of hands on me.

“I was decreasing on my knees and I couldn’t hold him any longer but I saw the shoe of my daughter and heard her voice likewise, I simply sort of had the strength to get up as I heard her voice.

“I saw the pastor’s partner next to me so I grabbed her skirt to stand so when they saw I was already up, they immediately began taking her away from me, that was how I left from them. An ambulance came and took me to the medical facility.”

On how she has actually been managing the loan repayment at the bank where she apparently took it from, Edeh said, “There’s a particular amount I pay to the bank every month and every 3 months, I likewise pay a specific amount to the bank for owing and credit so this makes it 2 various sort of payment, they take it automatically from my account.”

On the intervention by the head church in Nigeria, Edeh said she already informed the better half to the General Overseer of the church, Lizzy Johnson Suleman of the loan in October last year and with the recent incident, she had to forward photos and videos to her but she never ever got an action.

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