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Bishop Physically Assaults Reverend, Asks Him To Kneel Down

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This is Rt Rev. Barr. Otuekong Alexander Ukut, the Bishop of the Methodist Church in Atamunu, Calabar.

One of his Reverends, Victor Okon Uloh, is alleging that the Bishop physically assaulted him.

‘I am a Priest in Methodist Church Nigeria. My Bishop forced me to kneel down with my ministerial vestment, threatened to strike me with his crucier, and cut off my cross pendant on my neck, a symbol of my ordination and ministerial dignity which only the Prelate of the church can do.”

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Reverend Uloh, is a father of four children.

He has written a formal complaint with a medical report of injuries to his hearing.

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