When the marriage of the pastor and his wife was dissolved in 2017, it set off a storm of legal actions in the UK that involved the church.
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In May 2023, a family court recorder , AndrewWilletts, ordered Mr Irabor to pay her a lump sum of £750,000 and other costs she incurred on a clean break basis.PREMIUM TIMES delivers fact-based journalism for Nigerians, by Nigerians — and our community of supporters, the readers who donate, make our work possible. Help us bring you and millions of others in-depth, meticulously researched news and information.
Despite Mr Irabor not being a direct appellant in the case, the High Court gave scathing remarks about him, casting him as a man living a highly comfortable life while “paying nothing towards the support of the children or their mother”.The Irabors were married in 2008 and have four children aged 14, 13, 11 and 8.
The church transferred $1.56 million, the dollar equivalent of the money, to Mr Irabor’s account in July 2014. This meant that the church sought an order to stop possible disposition through sale, transfer, gift or new mortgage of the registered property. Also, at the first appointment of the proceedings on 16 September 2019, the court gave the church leave to join the suit as an interested party .
Consequently, the court ruled that “the equity in each property would be available for distribution between” Mr Irabor and his estranged wife in their financial remedy proceedings. The court awarded £750,000 lumpsum to Ms Irabor after considering her needs and liabilities, the total value of the two family houses, and the debt Mr Irabor owed the church.
On the other hand, Mr Irabor was living in the former family home at Daisy Close, the court said. He was spending a significant amount of his time in Nigeria. He played a minimal part in the children’s lives and was not paying child or spousal maintenance. In all these, the church contended that its loan to Mr Irabor, secured by an interim charging order, received minimal consideration by the recorder at the family court.In his judgement on the appeal delivered on 11 April this year, the High Court upheld substantially the family court’s decision. It only reduced the amount of certain costs, conceded by Ms Irabor’s legal team.
The judge earlier agreed with the family court’s finding that the church was not keen on recovering the loan.
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