Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Father Ejike Mbaka, has revealed the reason for his ‘disappearance’ some two days ago.
He said it was part of a punishment by the leadership of the Catholic Church in Enugu, over a comment he recently made about the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
Speaking after his return, Mbaka said:
“How can they believe what others say, and they will not believe what the priest is saying? The emphasis is ‘Please, let me go to celebrate the mass’, but they said ‘no’. If a priest will request to celebrate mass and they say ‘no’, that means something is wrong.
“Allow me to and celebrate mass for my people just for today, I won’t even tell them that I am being punished, they said, No. I will just tell my members that I’m going for 30 days prayer, that after 30 days, we will come back and everybody will obey, they said, No.
“I also begged them to appoint another priest to come and celebrate mass for you today, they also said No.
“They didn’t treat me in a pastoral way. I was asking, ‘Am I being punished for what’?
“They said it was a meeting, but even before I reached the Bishop’s house, conclusion had already been made. What happened to me was like the day I was shot on the road.
“Unfortunately for them, even before the meeting, a woman was already going around bragging that the Bishop would call me for a meeting, and that I was going to leave my house here for 30 days, and that after the 30 days, I would be sent to Rome, and Adoration ministry will be closed.
“In a time and cases like this, don’t give me a punishment that will cause troubles for us because I’m not alone.”
