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Pastor Love Hammond, the embattled husband of gospel singer Christiana Love, has told NEWS-ONE he is not happy about the manner in which his collapsing marriage was handled on live radio by seasoned broadcast journalist Adakabre Frimpong Manso of Adom FM. According to the pastor, Adakabre behaved as if he had taken sides in the issue and allowed Christiana to divert the issue under discussion to her advantage, making him a subject of public ridicule. �When they called me, I told them that it was one Kate from Kumasi Tafo, the wife of Nana Yaw, who told me that her husband was flirting with my wife and that I should speak to my wife to stop what she was doing. �I even told Adakabre that a journalist from Channel R, one Agyeman Prempeh, has a recording of Nana Yaw, confessing that he never knew Christiana was a married woman but Adakabre did not go into all that. He did not even bother to contact Kate so she could tell him how she feels about her husband and Christiana. Rather, he allowed my wife to go into other issues which she claimed happened years ago but she did not leave the marriage. Adakabre did not treat me well,� Pastor Love told NEWS-ONE in Twi. Adakabre, on his part, has explained on his platform that his duty was to get his audience to know the truth of the matter involving Christiana Love and her husband. He said it was for this reason that he gave the couple a balanced platform for them to clarify the issues. According to Adakabre, during the live radio debate, his production team received several damning reports on Pastor Love, with some people even ready to call him to give evidence against the pastor but he restrained them because he did not want to sound biased. When NEWS-ONE asked Pastor Love for the contact details of the said Kate so the paper could contact her to find out if she indeed suspected her husband was dating Christiana Love, he said he had her contact details on another phone and that he would make it available later. Two Plots of Land Pastor Love also put the blame on the doorsteps of his mother-in-law. He alleged that he had bought and paid for a parcel of land for her and was preparing to put up a building on it when the trouble got out of hand. �I insisted that I would register the land and building in the name of her grandson, Junior Love, who is my son but she said no and that I should register the land in her name and this was what actually started the problem. �She was a constant part of my marriage and would not let us have our peace. I remember that she was the one who sent the drinks to my relations that Christiana does not want to marry me again but we did not accept the drink,� Pastor Love added. Pastor Love recently hopped from one radio station to another alleging on authority that he had every reason to divorce Christiana because she was committing adultery with another man by name Nana Yaw and that she might even be pregnant for the man. That allegation has turned out to be an ordinary hearsay with no evidence whatsoever, and when Christiana challenged Pastor Love to prove his allegation, his response has been that it was a certain pastor friend in Europe who told him of the supposed relationship between the gospel singer and a certain Nana Yaw. Christiana Love has meanwhile accused Pastor Love of very damning marital offences including rape, domestic assault, theft and sheer exploitation.