{"id":7750,"date":"2018-02-25T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7750"},"modified":"2018-02-25T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T02:56:11","slug":"youths-in-ekwulobia-anambra-went-on-rampage-burnt-down-church","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/youths-in-ekwulobia-anambra-went-on-rampage-burnt-down-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Youths in Ekwulobia, Anambra went on rampage &amp; burnt down church&#8230;The reason will interest you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7751 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/B6C2D05E-AC8F-493F-8EFB-10BE5047FACE.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/B6C2D05E-AC8F-493F-8EFB-10BE5047FACE.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/B6C2D05E-AC8F-493F-8EFB-10BE5047FACE-300x195.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/B6C2D05E-AC8F-493F-8EFB-10BE5047FACE-100x65.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Youths in Ekwulobia town, Anambra state, went on a rampage and burnt down a church after a mathematics teacher named Chiadikobi Ezeibekwe married his 17 years old sister claiming God told him to do so in a revelation.<\/p>\n<p>Chiadikobi quoted Bible passages in Deuteronomy to illustrate that siblings could marry each other. He said: \u201cOne advantage of doing this is that it discourages divorce. It also retains family values and norms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he did not pay any bride price to anybody in respect of the marriage. He said: \u201cI don\u2019t feel guilty. I don\u2019t feel ashamed. I don\u2019t feel intimidated in any way. Only God can stop us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The wedding which incensed the local youths was conducted by Chiadikobi\u2019s elder brother, Chijioke Ezeibekwe, who is the priest of Dwelling Fullness of God Church, Agba. The youth of the village then burnt the church to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, Nkeiruka Nwide, said she heard the story \u201cunofficially.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the issue, the traditional prime minister of Ekwulobia, Gabriel Ezeukwu, said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgba village youths, who saw the marriage as an abomination, set ablaze the church where the wedding took place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI restrained them from further action against the man and his family. If it were in the past, the entire family would be burnt down because this is a grave abomination and sin.\u201d<br \/>\nThe eldest son of the family, Emeka Ezeibekwe, vowed to resist their union. He said: \u201cIt\u2019s over my dead body that they will call themselves husband and wife. It can\u2019t happen.\u201d &#8211; LI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youths in Ekwulobia town, Anambra state, went on a rampage and burnt down a church after a mathematics teacher named Chiadikobi Ezeibekwe married his 17 years old sister claiming God told him to do so in a revelation. Chiadikobi quoted Bible passages in Deuteronomy to illustrate that siblings could marry each other. He said: \u201cOne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[318],"class_list":["post-7750","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-national","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Youths in Ekwulobia, Anambra went on rampage &amp; burnt down church...The reason will interest you<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Youths in Ekwulobia, Anambra went on rampage &amp; burnt down church...The reason will interest you\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/youths-in-ekwulobia-anambra-went-on-rampage-burnt-down-church\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Youths in Ekwulobia, Anambra went on rampage &amp; 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