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UK Family Claims Daughter Returned Home Traumatised After 6 Months as T. B. Joshua’s Disciple

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The family of Constance Marten, a United Kingdom’s citizen and journalist, has accused the late Nigerian Pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua, better known as T.B. Joshua, of brainwashing her while she was in Nigeria, leaving her traumatised on return to UK.

Marten was said to have spent six months in Nigeria, during which she turned a disciple of the pastor in his sprawling evangelical church in Lagos State.

According to a family friend who spoke with DailyMail, Marten was previously brainwashed by the prophet after participating in a course on Christian life put together by the pastor in London. The friend requested the newspaper not to mention her name.

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“She ended up becoming one of his disciples in Nigeria. I believe she got brainwashed while she was over there. The experience traumatised her,” she said.

“She was not the same person when she came back. She always used to be wild, but also happy, kind and buoyant. She was darker when she came back and she found things more difficult.

“She never told us what really happened. T B Joshua was a God-like figure. It was scary, and I believe it changed her. It was a huge part of her life.”

She stated further that Marten, who was fondly called Toots by her friends, “used to travel a lot from a young age but when she returned from Nigeria, there were strained relations with her family”.

“She was still exuberant in everything, but she found relationships very hard. It was like she came back totally f***ed. She was more rebellious. She thought she had recovered, but it was difficult for her,” Marten said.

The source further claimed that her friend once mooted the idea of undertaking a television expose of the late Nigerian pastor to reveal his modus operandi as part of her investigative reporting job at Al Jazeera as a senior researcher in 2012.

Marten’s Linkedin profile shows that she once “Pitched an idea for a documentary about a religious cult in Nigeria” and “Tracked down former members of the sect, in the UK, Nigeria, Ghana and S. Africa, in order to gather solid first-hand information”.

Expressing the family’s feeling over his daughter’s welfare, Napier Marten, the investigator’s father, said they were deeply concerned about the welfare of his darling daughter.

Her father, who is a former page to the late Queen, said, “Darling Constance, even though we remain estranged, I stand by, as I have always done and as the family has always done, to do whatever is necessary for your safe return to us.

“I beseech you to find a way to turn yourself and your wee one in to the police as soon as possible so you and he or she can be protected. Only then can a process of healing and recovery begin.

“I also wish you to understand you are much, much loved, whatever the circumstances. We are deeply concerned for you and your baby’s welfare. To see you so vulnerable again is testing in the extreme.”

The journalist is married to Mark Gordon, a serial rapist who completed his 20-year jail term in the United States of America in 2010 before marrying Marten. He has eloped with her for years, putting her family in great concern about the safety of their daughter.

According to the police, Marten’s life changed when she met Gordon. “At that point, the affluent, normal, social aspects of Constance’s life, they stop,’ said Detective Chief Inspector Stephen Payne. “They’re estranged from family.”

It was not yet clear the exact year Marten was in Nigeria as a follower of the Ondo-born late prophet and general overseer of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN).

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Taraba state government condemns the gruesome murder of Monarch’s family

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Taraba State Government has Condemned in Strong Terms the gruesome Murder of the two wives and five children of the Chief of Mutum-Biyu HRH.Alhaji Bose Sani Suleiman Mohammed, who were abducted by Men of the underworld some few weeks ago.

In a statement issued by the Commissioner of Information and Re-Orientation, Mrs. Lois Emmanuel to newsmen in Jalingo, the Government described the act as Barbaric,Ungodly, Inhuman and Uncivilized regretting that it’s sustained efforts to rid the state of Kidnappings and other forms of Banditry was being thwarted by the recent developments in the State.

“The government reiterates it’s resolve to continue to ensure adequate protection of lives and properties of the citizens and vowed to network with the security Agencies in the State to bring to book the perpetrators of the dastardly act.

“The Government Condoled with the Monarch, His Royal Highness and the people of Mutum-Biyu Chiefdom on the unfortunate incident and prayed God to repose the souls of the Deceased and the family the fortitude to bear the irreparable Loss “the statement concluded.

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Insecurity: Taraba monarch confirms finding decomposed bodies of his kidnapped wives, five children

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The Chief of Mutumbiyu Justices Chiefdom in Taraba State, Justice Sani Muhammed (rtd), says the decomposed bodies of his two abducted wives and five children have been found.

The monarch said that the bodies were discovered early Saturday morning and would be buried at Mutumbiyu.

The bodies of my family members killed by kidnappers was found and will be brought to Mutumbiyu,” he said.

Eight family members of the Monarch were abducted by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers at his Jalingo residence two weeks ago.

But a 14-year-old boy among the abducted families of the monarch escaped from the kidnappers two days ago and was taken to the palace.

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Don’t dare to scuttle this election, ING is an aberation -Wike

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has warned cabals reportedly trying to scuttle the February 25 and March 11 general elections to desist from the plot, saying no to any form of ‘interim government’.

“Let nobody try to scuttle this election,” the governor warned on Saturday during a campaign in the Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Area of the state.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, also berated the Federal Government over the scarcity of the newly redesigned naira notes, saying he believes that President Muhammadu Buhari was misled to approve the policy.

“This policy (naira redesign) is targeted at making people angry so that they will demonstrate and riot and then the election be postponed. Then, they will introduce an interim government,” he said.

“No matter the provocation, don’t protest,” Wike cautioned the people of the state. “This election will hold. This election is by the PVCs. This election is not an election of cabals; it is an election of Nigerians.”

Interim Government first popped up in Nigeria’s history about three decades ago when then Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election presumably won by the late philanthropist, Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola. The late Ernest Shonekan subsequently emerged the head of the Interim National Government between January and August 1993.

‘Enemies Of Nigeria’
The former minister said those supporting the currency redesign amid the electioneering process are the enemies of the country.

He also knocked the Federal Government over the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol.

“You said you want to remove the old currency but we have not seen the new ones. Can you buy fuel? Can you buy anything to eat again? Now, tell me, would you vote for anybody who loves Nigeria and is running for election, who supports this CBN policy?” he asked party supporters decked up in party paraphernalia, many of whom chorused “No”.

“Those supporting this kind of thing are enemies of Nigeria. I believe that they did not tell President Buhari the correct thing because me and the President are going the same time – May 29, the same time, nobody will stay one day more the other.

The governor, however, said he believes that the President will take steps to assuage the pain of the masses.

“So, I know the man will like to finish well and go and I won’t see what is bad and not advise him. Those plotting all these things are those who don’t like him. But I believe he will hear the cries of Nigerians,” he said.

The PDP stalwart further said the policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is not to fight corruption “What corruption are you fighting when you have three months more?” he queried.