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.
As it appears, God has only decided to use the church in ques
tion 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 pro
gramme, 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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