According to a whisperer... When God revealed it to the presiding pastor (Pastor and church’s
identities withheld) of one of the Pentecostal churches in Ogba area of
Lagos to organize a week long crusade last December, the man of God must
have probably anticipated that God was planning to perform major
miracles that would catapult his ministry to the next level.
Indeed, miracles were not in short supplies at the crusade. However,
the supposed miracles, as it turned out, have little or nothing to do
with the church beyond the fact of the church being the host of the
crusade where the ‘wonders’ took place. Continue after the cut...
As it appears, God has
only decided to use the church in question as a base to launch an
assault against the wolves who parade themselves in sheep skin and to
sanitize the Christendom which is being infiltrated by impostors who
fake miracles with the sole intention of deceiving unsuspecting Christian faithful for selfish motive.
No
fewer than four members of a syndicate which specializes in
stage-managing miracles in churches in the country are currently
squealing on some pastors of notable churches they work for in the
country as well as some of the miracles that they have conjured in
conjunction with their accomplices.
Undoubtedly, nothing short of a divine intervention
would have been responsible for the arrest of the suspects who are
currently furnishing the police with information about their modus
operandi, past exploits and their accomplices.
Sunday Sun reliably
gathered that the church where the miracles took place had organized a
week long programme during which a Ghanaian pastor (name withheld) was
invited as a guest minister. The Ghanaian pastor, it was learnt,
ministered for most part of the programmes during which a number of
miracles was said to have taken place.
The Ghanaian pastor,
however, returned to Ghana a day before the last day of the crusade
while the host pastor carried on with the programme. At the end of the
programme, Sunday Sun gathered that a man and woman approached the host
pastor from whom they requested to meet the Ghanaian pastor who they
thought was the real pastor of the church. “They were shocked to
discover that the Ghanaian pastor was only invited to minister during
the programme,” a source who craved anonymity disclosed.
Having
recovered from their shocks “they informed the host pastor that the
Ghanaian pastor hired them to stage-manage miracles that took place
during the programme and promised to pay them the sum of N250,000 which
he never did before he left. They later demanded that the host pastor
pay them the said amount since their acts were staged in the church, a
demand the pastor declined, insisting he knew nothing about it.” Sunday
Sun further learnt that the host pastor would later call the Ghanaian
pastor who allegedly denied knowing or contracting the gang.
Confused
by the turn of event, the host pastor called to inform one of his
friends, a pastor who advised him to report the matter to the police
since the people insisted they would not leave until they were paid for
the services they rendered. “So he pretended to play along with them
and succeeded in getting them arrested along with two other suspects.
Among
those arrested are two men who gave their names as Joshua Ifeanyi and
Kazeem Akinwale and two women who identified themselves as Mary Arikawe
and Kemi Adeniyi. The suspects who are currently being held at the State
Criminal Investigation Department, SCID Panti, Yaba, Sunday Sun was
reliably informed are members of a syndicate which operates across the
country.
“They have confessed to be members of a syndicate which
operates across the country. But those arrested so far are members of a
seven-member gang which operational base is the South-west zone.
There
are other groups which operate in other zones in the country. The
South-west group is headed by an Ibadan-based woman simply identified as
Iya Ibo,” Sunday Sun was informed.
Although the Ghanaian pastor
denied knowing the group, his denial appears not to hold water as it was
gathered that the host pastor was able to identify two of the suspects
to include those who claimed to have received miracles under the
ministration of the Ghanaian pastor.
.
“One of the two men
arrested was said to have been recognized by the host pastor as the one
who came to the crusade with POP around his neck, which the Ghanaian
pastor pulled off and got healed after he was prayed for. And again one
of the women was identified as the one whom the pastor brought out from
the congregation and revealed so many things about her which she also
affirmed as true during the programme.
One of the things he said
about the woman is that her husband deserted her over three years ago, a
claim the woman said was true. He later prophesied that her husband
would return soon.”
Revealing their mode of operation, the
suspects reportedly said besides staging and being recipients of fake
miracles, they also tried to get information about people, their problem
and gave to their principals who would later relate to them during
service as if he was seeing visions or receiving revelation from God.
As
at the last count no fewer than names of 10 persons who claimed to be
men of God had been mentioned. But a police source informed Sunday Sun
that the police are still on the trail of other suspects while
investigation concerning pastors involved is still ongoing.
“Cases
such as this one require extreme caution. That is why we are being
meticulous about those pastors that have been mentioned so far but I can
assure you that thorough investigation will be done on the case,” the
source disclosed.
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