*She’s
a loose woman-Pastor
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| Kaycee |
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| Brenda |
A mother of three, Mrs. Brenda Nwanguma, has accused
one of the pastors of Christ Embassy Church, pastor Kaycee Kenechukwu Kanu Aka Kaycee,
of sexually harassing and victimizing her.
Ironically, Brenda and Kaycee are both members of
the Christ Embassy Church. But the drama between them is playing out at Inner
City Mission for Children (ICM4C), a nongovernmental organization, owned by the
church and located at Oregun area of Lagos State.
Indeed, every worker at ICMAC is believed to a
member of Christ Embassy.
While Brenda accuses Kaycee, a father of two, of sexual harassment, Kaycee countered by
calling her a, “loose woman who has slept with at least two to three men here.
Her husband doesn’t know her. He should go and put his house in order. I’m a
man of the cloth. There’re certain things I shouldn’t say.”
It has accusations and counter accusations. Brenda
said that she was told by a close of hers and Kaycee, Pastor Charles Osakwe,
that Kaycee has a penchant for sexually harassing and even succeeding in
sleeping with women in the organization.
When Brenda heard that Kaycee described her as a
loose woman, she revealed more secrets.
She said: “If pastor Kaycee said I’m loose and had
had sex with three men, I dare him to mention their names. If I’m a loose
woman, why did the organisation allow me to keep working in the Christian
environment? Kaycee’s Personal Assistant (PA), Alicia, has been caught several
times being romanced in the office by Kaycee. Kaycee has a secret pet name for
his PA; he calls her Pawpaw.
“A member of staff at ICMAC told me that Kaycee once
impregnated a teacher in the school. He got her to resign and moved to east
just to cover his deeds. The lady had a baby boy for him. In fact, it happened
before I started working there. This has been his lifestyle.”
Trouble in the serene ICMAC paradise was said to
have started after Brenda, who works at the school section, started having
health challenges, leading to migraine.
According to her, she was advice on medical grounds
to stop working with the school section.
Brenda also wasn’t getting along with her immediate
superior, Sister Vanessa Nosegbe, who
recommended for the job at ICMAC. Brenda said the woman told her that she didn’t
like her and made life a hell for her.
Brenda asked for transfer. She said that issues that
had to do with transfer are usually handled by Kaycee.
She explained that after she was transferred, Kaycee
came to her, demanding for payment of N500, 000 for influencing her transfer.
According to her, the cleric told her that if she
didn’t have the money, she should meet him at a hotel in Ikeja for a sex romp.
She refused to play ball.
Brenda said she was transferred four times within a spat
of a month, until she was sent back to the section where doctors warned her
against. She said Kaycee sent her back to that very department as a punishment for
refusing his sexual advances.
Brenda said she wrote a letter of complaint to Director
of ICMAC, Pastor Omoh, tabling her predicament and Kaycee’s sexual harassment.
She urged for investigation, but nothing was allegedly done.
She also took further
steps to write another letter of complaint to Pastor Ifeoma Chiemeka, Head of
Administration for all Christ Embassy Staff, mum was still the word.
Brenda felt there was a conspiracy against her
and everyone was working hard to cover the sexual harassment allegation.
She alleged that she
had been sitting home since February,
without being paid salary, while waiting to hear the outcome of the
investigation.
While Kaycee was allegedly
pursuing her for sex, Brenda said that she had been carrying her husband along
in sex the demand drama.
In fact, it was her husband,
a popular human right activist, Mr. Okechukwu Nwanguma, who told her to play
along and act as if she was interested in having sex with him. She said that
Kaycee on a particular fateful day waited for her in a hotel until it dawned on
him that she wasn’t coming.
Even when Kaycee paid
N25, 000 into Brenda’s account, it was Okechukwu that told her to play along
and ask for the money. The couple said they were gathering evidences against Kaycee.
Okechukwu said he has
witnessed occasions whereby pastor Charles called Brenda on phone and unaware
that the phone was on speaker, begged her to take things easy with Kaycee,
because he had penchant for sexually harassing women and having sex with those
that are gullible.
Okechukwu noted: “Kaycee asked my wife to meet him
at a hotel in Ikeja and kept pressuring her. I knew about this and asked Brenda
to play along. I was on my way back to Lagos from Abuja. I had hoped I could
get in on time so that I would ask my wife to go and meet him in the hotel room.
I was planning to storm the hotel with some police officers because adultery is
a crime under the law apart from being a sin unbecoming of a pastor.”
The activist further said: “ My interest and
purpose in following up on this matter is not to target the school, Inner City
Mission for Children, or Christ Embassy as a church or the founder and head
pastor, Pastor Chris. I'm pushing to ensure that Pastor Chris gets to hear and
know about the atrocities being daily committed by the pastors under whose care
he put the mission and the children. Pastor Chris is to be commended for
sparing a thought for indigent children and establishing that school. Many pastors
established schools and make them inaccessible to their members. But Pastor
Chris established Inner City Mission to facilitate access to education for
indigent children and put some pastors in charge. But these pastors have turned
the place into the Inner City of Debauchery, where so-called pastors commit
immorality and are shielded from disciplinary actions by fellow pastors who are
in a position to check and discipline them.”
Okechukwu continued: “Aside from my
wife's case, my inquiry reveals that Kaycee is notorious for the misconduct of
harassing women- single and married. And these are covered up. Despite several written complaints I got my
wife to send to Omoh as the director of Inner City Mission, I was shocked she
didn’t respond. I was convinced about the conspiracy to cover up this heinous
act. I asked my wife to take further steps to complain to pastor Ifeoma, who is
the next superior authority beyond pastor Omoh. Yet, we got not even an
acknowledgement.”
When our correspondent got to ICM4C on Wednesday,
she met Pastor Charles, Pastor Kaycee and Kaycee’s PA, Alicia.
Charles and Kaycee’s PA said Brenda was being economical
with the truth, this was even as they explained that the director, Omoh she was
not available for questions. Omoh was in South Africa for a Christian event, to
return next week. Attempts to get her on her mobile line by our correspondent
failed. The number was unavailable.
According to Charles and Alicia, Brenda started
screaming sexual harassment after she asked for a transfer and was not given. Charles,
who said he is a close buddy of Brenda, said that the woman was trying to fight
the system and has drawn the battle line and that the organization wouldn’t
hesitate to fight back.
Alicia said that Brenda was transferred because, “She
needed to up her game and didn’t. An appraisal was done and she failed. She was
transferred to another section, still headed by her former boss, but she
refused to obey. She stopped coming work herself.”
Charles said: “ I used to call Brenda every day, she’s
my friend, but I will stop calling her now. I didn’t know she would go to this
extent. She was asked by the director to
go back to another section, under her former boss, because where she was, Media
Achieving, was below her qualification. She refused to go. She made some
complaints of sexual harassment against Pastor Kaycee; the matter was looked
into. The director told her to and report first at where she was posted. She wrote
a very rude letter to the director. No matter what, your boss is your boss. We all
knew she wasn’t the person that wrote that letter. Someone wrote it for her. The
letter didn’t reflect Brenda that I know. The director said that if she allows
Brenda to have her way by refusing where she was posted, others would soon copy
her.”
Further reacting to the allegation, Kaycee said, he
strongly felt that Brenda was conniving with two other people in the organization
to bring him down. According to him, he didn’t know how or in what way he has offended
Brenda. He vehemently denied ever asking her for sex or money for influencing
her transfer. He said Brenda was the first person alleging him of sexual harassment.
He further explained: “She might feel her complaint
had not been looked into, but it has. The mistake she made was in thinking that
I have the power to transfer anyone, I don’t! Transfers come from the director.
Mine is to obey and carry out the instructions. She was working in the school,
she complained about her boss; she said the woman was victimizing her. When the
woman was asked, the woman said Brenda was always making up her face in front
of the children, which wasn’t right.
“When she complained of having migraine because of
the children she was handling, she was transferred to partnership department. When
her appraisal came, she failed. The head of partnership also complained that
Brenda spends too much time making up her
face and doing ‘madam.’ Brenda was not pulling her weight. She was moved to
Media Achieving and she liked the place. But it was below her educational
status; anybody, even without education could work there.
“There was a particular sister that used to have
still birth. It has happened twice. The woman is pregnant again. It was agreed that
she go and stay at home and nurse the pregnancy, so that the baby may live.
Brenda was transferred to replace her. The section is managed by her former
boss in the school, but she refused to go. She wasn’t getting along with her
boss. I don’t know what her husband thinks he’s fighting for, but he just doesn’t
know his wife. He should put his house in order. No one is harassing his wife
sexually. It’s case of his wife having affairs with several men.”
Asked if he paid N25, 000 into Brenda’s account,
Kaycee said: “I have given Brenda money several times. She’s not the only one I
have given IOU in this organisation. She would beg me to borrow her money, but
she wouldn’t pay back. She said I asked her for N500, 000, but what do I need
money for? I have money! You may ask anybody.”
Told that Brenda has WhatsApp chat where he was
asking her to meet him in a hotel, Kaycee said: “It wasn’t me! It may be
someone else. My phone was recently hacked. Whatever messages she might have
received couldn’t have come from me.”
Nosegbe, Brenda’s former boss at the school, said: “
I don’t have any problem with Brenda. In fact, I haven’t seen her for some days
and had been asking after her. How can she say that I didn’t like her? Let her
come and say it to my face. I was the person that recommended and approved her
for the job. She was working with me until she told me she had health
challenge. I told her she should apply for compassionate leave. She told me
that she has thought about it and felt it was better to get a transfer. As for
making up her face in front of the children, that was a long time ago. She was
warned and she stopped. Party makeup is different from school makeup. Moreover,
we as teachers should be role model to the children.
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