The late Perpetua Udoka before her demise. Photo: Linda Ikeji
                                        The late Perpetua Udoka before her demise
A concerned Nigerian has sent in a story about a pastor, Mark Chukwudi Etiti of Victory Pentecostal Church, Ogbaku, Imo state, who murdered his wife in cold blood.

The story, as sent to popular Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji, revealed that the pair had been on the impasse since February 2000 when the wife, then a fledgling banker, sought God’s face for a future partner and the mantle fell on the pastor.


Chrys Anyanwu an anonymous reader, stated that the pastor was a secondary school dropout and redeemed wheelbarrow pusher before he became a clergyman. “The story of this self acclaimed man of God who hails from Agwa in Oguta, LGA of Imo State is one that elicits so many thoughts about the biblical end time and the rise of so many devil’s incarnate in the guise of Pastors whose sole aim is to deceive and defraud at every given opportunity.

“The story of Pastor Mark and his unfortunate wife Perpetua Udoka dates back to February 2000. Udoka who commenced a bright career in banking in a small town called Ogbaku near Owerri in Imo State innocently confided in a brother in the church who incidentally was the leader of the prayer squad of their local church at a time.

“She solicited for the face of God concerning her proposals from three suitors who were seriously asking for her hand in marriage, a medical doctor, a fellow banker and a public servant. Her genuine intention was for this brother to join hands with her to seek for God’s intervention to enable her make the very best of decision.

“Unknown to her, she had just had a date with the very devil she’s intending to avoid. Pastor Mark who was supposedly expected to hear from God for onward transmission to Udoka could not help but fraudulently take advantage of the situation.

In his criminal revelation to sister Udoka who waited earnestly for the solemn voice of God, he quietly muted in such a shameless display of authority weeks after that God has changed everything,” he offered.

Speaking further on the ordeal of the lady, Anyanwu said: “Initially, the banker was the one, but God has seen that marrying him won’t allow you serve him the way he wants you to and so he changed it.

“Who then is the one? Your curiosity is as high as mine. In his tactical measure of deceit, summoning the guts and clearing the air to weed off suspicion, he replied ‘I’m sure it will be difficult for you to accept, but certainly God has spoken’ I’m the one.”
                                                       Pastor Mark Chukwudi has reportedly macheted his wife to death. Photo: Linda Ikeji
                                                                  Pastor Mark
This no doubt instigated a lot of dust. For Udoka’s family, it was a no no particularly considering Pastor Mark’s educational background and social status. What does the young man do for a living?

How does he intend to sustain a family, how will he cope with the family members? were some of the questions which made the choice a herculean task for Udoka.

But for the lady, since it was God who had supposedly spoken, she would be sure she was making the right choice and her families were convinced. They all came out supported and fully sponsored the wedding ceremony.

Unknown to Udoka, the biggest attraction was her lucrative career at the time. Just within a space of twenty months, a car was bought, a landed property and a shop was paid for all in the name of the husband Pastor Mark Chukwudi Etiti.

Udoka built a house for her pastor husband on bank loan. She did a lot both for the husband’s family and the husband himself on loans including borrowing money on behalf of the husband to the extent that repayments become a serious challenge and she ultimately lost the bank job.

It became a pitiable situation better imagined after she lost her job. Udoka became a punching bag. On many occasions, the mother in-law will come all the way from the village to order Udoka out of the very house she built. Udoka had sustained various degrees of injuries inflicted on her by the same husband she picked from the gutters.

She was hospitalized severally. The mother in-law had once threatened that it is either Udoka leaves the son alive or the deceased body will be carted away like nobody and her threat came to pass after all. Udoka’s thirteen year old daughter had once reported to the police of how the father had bitten the mum to stupor on the fear that the mum was dead.

The first brutal cutlass injuries on Udoka were recorded in 2013. This time, Udoka’s family thought it was indeed enough. The matter was formally taken to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Nigerian Police in Owerri, who documented the evidences, detained the pastor and later released him.

The family has actually concluded plans to forcefully relocate her and her children after so many refusals from her before the brutal murder of Udoka by the same man who she gave three beautiful children. “Is he insane?” the police commissioner asked in bloated anger.

While narrating the ordeal that broke out which was about the last straw between the couple, their daughter explained how they met their in a pool of her blood when they returned from school the day the Udoka had her last breathe.

She said: “On that faithful day, my mummy in her usual manner, woke up around 5.00am, got us ready for school, gave us our food, asked me to take my younger sister to her school and return the key to her in the church, while she left for our church early morning prayer session.

“I finished dressing up and told my daddy who was in his room that I’m off to school. He asked me to lock the gate to our house from outside and I asked why and he shouted me down. I did exactly that and returned the key to my mum in the church.

I went back to my mummy’s shop around 1.00pm and did not meet her in the shop. “I called her line and she was not picking. I asked her neighbors and they said she told them my daddy called her. I then took my siblings along to the house. On getting to the house, every place looked deserted.

We usually access the house through the kitchen door, but that faithful day, the kitchen door was locked. “I called my dad to ask him if he has seen mummy. He asked me where we are and I said we are at home and the doors were all locked.

Within 2 minutes, daddy appeared. Unusual of daddy, he decided to follow the back door instead of the usual front kitchen door and asked me to stay outside. “I could not comprehend my father’s body language and I quickly followed him and went straight to my mum’s room while he made his way to his room.

The sight of flowing blood in mummy’s room got me more frightened and when I shouted blood, my dad ran straight to the kitchen where my mum’s body was used to block the kitchen door, the same door my daddy strategically avoided on entering the compound.

“I later saw my mum’s phone near the kitchen window with my daddy’s 3 missed calls on the phone.” She explained also that the pastor had severally threatened to kill their mother and her people would not do anything, stating that she thought her mother was dead when she was brutally beaten with cutlass by their daddy and blood was gushing like water.

“I called my uncle, but he was not responding. I then went to police to report him and he was arrested. Two days before he killed mummy, I saw him from the bathroom cutting the ceiling of our house. The following morning, I heard him telling my mother that armed robbers came to the house and that the entered through the ceiling.

“He was showing mummy the note he claimed the brought which read ‘Pastor Mark be careful, this is to tell you we can come and go’. “I told mummy that I saw dad cutting that place two days back and was not done by any armed robber.

I told mummy we should go to my aunt’s place that dad was up to something but mummy refused. Now look at where she has brought us to. Daddy has simply fulfilled his wish and God will judge him,” the young lady lamented further. The Imo state police command, having gathered their evidences, have charged him to court, while the unrepentant pastor murderer insists that nobody can ever tolerate his kind of wife.




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