UFUOMATOMA Kwakpovwe escapes kidnappers

One evening in his school hall, four Egbesu boys kid-napped him but by divine intervention, he managed to escape through the toilet window. What made him to leave Nigeria; his bed, generator and everything because he couldn’t go back to his private hostel. I called him and asked him where he was, he said he was in a bush. I told him to go to the nearest G. Agofure Motor park and proceed to Lagos even if he didn’t have money. I spoke with the driver telling him I would pay on arrival in Lagos. He missed school for about a year because he couldn’t go back to Port Harcourt.           The then Rivers State Police commissioner called me and said they would give him security and I refused; the Nigeria Police cannot secure him. I believe that God did it. Maybe if the kidnappers didn’t attack him, I may not  have sent him out for first degree. That battle promoted him. My life stories are very complicated and always very hard but they always lead to great testimonies. The bishop believes that what precipitated the son’s kidnap had to do with his early act of benevolence to the university. “I just bought some pharma-cy books for the faculty of pharmacy, and during the convocation, the dean of the faulty told the VC that one parent donated pharmacy books. I studied pharmacy at OAU, Ile Ife.
           I got the books and donated same for the department of pharmacy and this guy now announced my name. That was what led to the kidnap. The truth is there are no millions anywhere. The kind of life I live, I’m an aggressive person. If you give me money now, I’m investing it in the Lekki Prayer Tower just about to start. In Ghana, Toma didn’t do pharmacy. Instead he did management and computer studies. To continue with pharmacy, he needed to do a pre-degree programme meaning he had to do another  two more years. I said no. I told him let God’s will be done.
             Toma is today a business advertisement guru. The funny thing, the cleric continued, is that nobody can put his finger on the day of his breakthrough. “So, I can’t say this is how it started. People say there is so much power behind ODM because some-times I write in anger and in hunger. We’ve changed the quality from time to time but not the writing. It must con-tinue,” he explained. Was that the only thing you were doing then, Kwakpovwe who began his Christian voyage at the Catholic Church before a born again experience on February 3, 1976 at a Scripture Union meeting before a soujorn at Tunde Joda’s Christ Chapel, then Chapel of Praise, W.F. Kumuyi’s Deeper Life and the Assemblies of God Church, was asked. “We had one fellowship kind of then, it was not a church. We had Chapel of Liberty many years ago at Ojota which metamorphosed to Liberty Army. All these were in residential houses.