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Popular Nigerian Priest, Rev. Father Okunerere Announces He’s Leaving Catholic Church Over Alleged Oppression, Others

A Catholic priest of Nsukka Diocese, Reverend Father Paul Obayi, popularly known as Fr Okunerere has revealed that he wants to leave the Catholic church.

The outspoken Catholic priest who founded the Okunerere Adoration Ministry, Nsukka, Enugu State, accused his Bishop, Most Rev. Godfrey Onah of oppressing him.

According to him, his local ordinary and fellow priests want to take away his ministry’s land by force.

Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka, the spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, who is also under the Enugu Catholic Diocese, had a similar battle with his Bishop which later led to the imposition of a ban on him and the shutting down of his ministry. Although the ministry had since been reopened, the Enugu Diocese changed the ministry to chaplaincy.

In a 30-minute video posted on his Facebook page, Okunerere alleged that he gave everything to the church, yet the church wanted to strangle him.

In the video seen by SaharaReporters, Fr Okunerere made a long list of claims, adding that he was being forced to leave the church.

He said: “The church is my vineyard, I love the church, I love my Nsukka (Catholic) church, I love the bishop, I love the priests, I love them, but they are oppressing me.

“I was looking for a land where I will conduct my adoration but couldn’t find. I rented a place behind Queens College Nsukka and started my adoration there. Bishop Onah chased me out of the place, saying I was causing noise and distracting the students of Queens.

“The past governor of Enugu State, Gburugburu gave me this piece of land I’m staying in now. I told the Bishop that I have land and I took him there to see the land. When he came, he then said that the land is fine to be used to build the Marian Shrine. I told him it’s my adoration ministry I want to start here and not Marian Shrine. He said I shouldn’t talk about it again.

“I give everything to the church, yet the church wants to strangle me. But it can’t happen!

“I bought and installed the best transformer in the cathedral of Nsukka Diocese which they’re using till today.

“The Bishop mandated me to build a museum where I would keep the deities I removed from villages. I spent N2.8 million to build the museum upstairs inside the cathedral and reported it to my bishop. The only ‘thank you’ I got from my bishop was that he asked me ‘where did I get the money to build it when he has banned the selling of olive oil’. Yet, I endured it.

“At Obimo, I got land to build my adoration ministry. It’s a mountain. I spent more than N50m to level the place and create roads, then built a 30-room self-contained house there. The church collected it from me and I surrendered it. Kidnappers are using that building today to keep their victims because the church isn’t using it till today after collecting it from me. The Bishop said he wants to use the place as Nsukka Diocesan Pilgrimage Centre.

“I was posted to Obollo where I spent N10 million to build a church. The Bishop came to dedicate it and on the day of the dedication, everybody was acknowledged but they refused to acknowledge me, Fr Obayi who built the church. Just after 2 months of dedicating the church, I was transferred to Ikem, where everybody knows that the roads there are filled with kidnappers.

“I was an associate professor but no one in the Diocese ever announced me as associate professor, but those priests who became associate professors yesterday are recognized by the Diocese but I was ignored till today even as a professor.

“It got to the point that fellow priests broke my gate just to take my land, they said they were sent.

“During the Bishop’s Episcopal ordination, I supplied drinking water free to everybody in attendance."

He added, “The oppression is too much. Priests are avoiding coming to my adoration because if they see any priest in my adoration, during posting, they will post the priest in a faraway village beyond Adani in Uzo Uwani LGA.

“I have been inviting the Bishop to my adoration but he refused to come, saying he doesn’t understand what we are doing here.

“If Charismatics draft a programme and include my name as a guest priest when they take it to the Diocese for approval, the authorities will tear the programme on seeing my name there. They would ask the Charismatics why should they invite Fr Okunerere. For 10 years now, I have not attended any charismatic programme because the church authorities won’t permit me.

“Bishop Onah stopped me from going to London to preach, saying that I would go there to preach heresy. I asked him, before you became my bishop, I had attended 10 different programmes in London where I preached. Is it now you’re my bishop that I will preach heresy?

“The church refused to give me land for my adoration, and the one given to me by the government, the church wants to collect it from me.

“Since the church doesn’t want me again, I am leaving the Catholic church any moment from now.”

https://saharareporters.com/2023/10/11/popular-nigerian-priest-rev-father-okunerere-announces-hes-leaving-catholic-church-over

Lol

He's tired of working for a group of companies.

He wants to own and operate his own business.

Idolators garbed in their deceptive cassock.

He is welcomed to Islam! The only true religion!

Being the fastest growing religion in the world is not by mistake. People are digesting the Quran and finding out the truth.

CoronaVirusPro:
He is welcomed to Islam! The only true religion!

Being the fastest growing religion in the world is not by mistake. People are digesting the Quran and finding out the truth.

That's what you tell yourselves to sleep better at night. Who am I to stop your fantasy

RingRoafia:

That's what you tell yourselves to sleep better at night. Who am I to stop your fantasy

I was a Christian before and a titled one in the past.

I have read both books and know the truth!

You know the problem with people like you? You have never read the Quran.


And Google is your friend! Islam is the fastest growing religion!

Then leave the church na

All these unfortunate ministries up and down! They are mostly the genesis of religious arrogance.

Padre respect your Bishop!
Catholics will not follow you to your own ministry should you leave the church, you will be surprised.

Noted, but please... Let's hear from the other side too before we 'crucify' them. OK?

CoronaVirusPro:


I was a Christian before and a titled one in the past.

I have read both books and know the truth!

You know the problem with people like you? You have never read the Quran.


And Google is your friend! Islam is the fastest growing religion!

You were a Christian in your wet dreams.

If you've actually read both books then I see no reason why you would choose to listen to a caravan raider over the Prince Of Peace himself.

Contrary to what you and most head slammers think, some Christians are actually now taking up Islamic studies just so we can better understand your delusion.

And yes, it will be the fastest growing because its the only religion concerned with forceful conversion and also the only religion which es the death penalty on anyone who attempts to leave it.

RingRoafia:


You were a Christian in your wet dreams.

If you've actually read both books then I see no reason why you would choose to listen to a caravan raider over the Prince Of Peace himself.

Contrary to what you and most head slammers think, some Christians are actually now taking up Islamic studies just so we can better understand your delusion.

And yes, it will be the fastest growing because its the only religion concerned with forceful conversion and also the only religion which es the death penalty on anyone who attempts to leave it.

What forceful conversion! Have you seen the news that they do so in Europe and North America? Go see what’s happening in those continents. Souls are trooping into Islam.

That’s the only true undiluted religion!

CoronaVirusPro:


I was a Christian before and a titled one in the past.

I have read both books and know the truth!

You know the problem with people like you? You have never read the Quran.


And Google is your friend! Islam is the fastest growing religion!

What about obsession with cutlass ?

VeeVeeMyLuv:


What about obsession with cutlass ?

There are fanatics in every religion.

White nationalists Christian’s are also obsessed with guns, and you cannot class them with average Christians.

CoronaVirusPro:


There are fanatics in every religion.

White nationalists Christian’s are also obsessed with guns, and you cannot class them with average Christians.

Where you see them

Yours is generalized and widespread, almost all adherents are intolerant to even their hosts and always fantasizes and dreams of cutting fellow human beings with cutlass

Just like the way the mythical vampire hunger and thirst for human blood

Artiiclebeast:
Lol

He's tired of working for a group of companies.

He wants to own and operate his own business.

Idolators garbed in their deceptive cassock.

In the end personal interest triumphs...

Catholic church is one church that never gets new .

If you weren't born into the church, you will never understand their mode of worship.
As a non believer or something like that, you cannot just say you want to become a Christian and then Catholic church.

You will just be looking at them without having a clue as to what they are doing. You will first of all go and start learning their prayers and incantations .

I tire for those people I swear.

Very, very boring, archaic and diabolical system

It's a season of oppression!

We all have many Israels illegally occupying Palestinian lands!

They oppress them daily and kill them. But when the oppressed retaliates he becomes the terrorist!

May Allah grant succor to our distressed brothers in Palestine and all over the world!

Are Nsukka people more Catholic than onitsha or any other region why the noise every time .
if it is not mbaka it is one prayer ministry ,he should leave already if he cannot submit to the church authority.

Fada Paul Obayi, you cannot be above your boss.

Bishop Godfrey Onah is still your head, as far as Nsukka Diocese is concerned.

Take it or leave it.

Fastest growing religion and so what? Wide is the way that leads to destruction.

CoronaVirusPro:


I was a Christian before and a titled one in the past.

I have read both books and know the truth!

You know the problem with people like you? You have never read the Quran.


And Google is your friend! Islam is the fastest growing religion!

I wish him good luck

CoronaVirusPro:
He is welcomed to Islam! The only true religion!

Being the fastest growing religion in the world is not by mistake. People are digesting the Quran and finding out the truth.

Hahah,even your Prophet Muhammad doesn't know where he is going after death

He is not going anywhere

Little Leah Shaibu converted to Islam on her own volition?
Funny indeed.
Now don't tell me it's an isolated case. Many of such forceful conversions abound .
Anyways, enjoy your new found faith.

CoronaVirusPro:


What forceful conversion! Have you seen the news that they do so in Europe and North America? Go see what’s happening in those continents. Souls are trooping into Oslam.

That’s the only true undiluted religion!

This man has mad powers .

He can single.handedly cleanse the entire Yoruba land of their dangerous deities and some archaic practises .

Like the Satanic Oro and the rest

Africa have more church attendants than Europe and America but wickedness is on the rise.


Okunerere know what is good for him. The most important thing is bringing souls back to God.

Reading this story, all I can see is a Bishop trying his best to prevent the Catholic church from becoming a commercial business and a Reverend Father fighting hard to protect his business interest

Church is business

The Bishop might be envious of fr oku

This is some of the things I am personally against the church doing - engaging in a business venture. This is not the calling of God as far as the church is concerned